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Frank and open in his manners, fairly truthful, faithful to his word, temperate and enduring, and looking upon courage as the highest virtue, the true Baluch of the Derajat is a pleasant man to have dealings with.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Far away in the Derajat was a child's grave more than twenty years old, and neither Jim nor his wife spoke of it any more.
The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Far away in the Derajat was a child's grave more than twenty years old, and neither Jim nor his wife spoke of it any more.
The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling 1900
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Punjab and the Derajat [*] remained true to our cause.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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When the Assemblage broke up, I started with Sir Frederick Haines for a tour along the Derajat frontier.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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Alone, save for the presence of one other Englishman, the young British subaltern, with the sage intrepidity of ripest experience, hastily summoned the chiefs of the Derajat and Bannu districts to his aid, and assembled their motley followings under his banner.
The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband
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The near bank was also _sungared_ and held by the 2nd Brigade and the Derajat mountain battery, which at eight hundred yards 'range could fire over the heads of those at the bridge-head.
The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband
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Except where subject to inundations or within reach of irrigation it is completely sterile -- a hard clay surface called _Pat_, -- and this kind of country extends around to the east of the spur of the Suliman into the Derajat country.
Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute Theo. F. Rodenbough
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The officer commanding the Derajat battery, peering anxiously through the darkness, and perplexed to know what was happening, bethought him to throw a star shell over the Guides 'entrenchment, so as to light up the ground beyond.
The Story of the Guides G. J. Younghusband
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Commander-in-Chief on his ride along the Derajat frontier, a trip I should have been very sorry to have missed.
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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