Peshawur

The plain of Peshawur, which is surrounded on all but the eastern side by high mountains, is watered by three branches of the Cabul river, which meet here, and by many smaller rivers.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Jules Verne 1866

The journey to Peshawur, that ought to have been wearisome because they were everlastingly shunted into sidings to make way for roaring south-bound troop trains and kept waiting at every wayside station because the trains ahead of them were blocked three deep, was no less than a jubilee progress!

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Peshawur, when they reached it at last, looked dusty and bleak in the comfortless light of Northern dawn.

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Yet he contrived to write, and since his one object was to give his brain employment, he wrote down a list of the names he had memorized in the train on the journey from Peshawur, not thinking of a use for the list until he had finished.

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It seemed to him that she came into the cave -- she the woman of the faded photograph the general had given him in Peshawur -- and that the cave became filled with the strange intoxicating scent that had first wooed his senses in her reception room in Delhi.

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There is no doubt whatever that the general went back to Peshawur in the train at eight o'clock and that the Rangar went with him in a separate compartment with about a dozen Hillmen chosen from among those who had come down with King.

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"Peshawur!" said Ismail, filling his mouth with the word as if he loved it.

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He sent for me to Peshawur and gave me strict orders to work with, not against her.

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There must have been a spy watching at Peshawur, who wired to Rawal-Pindi for this man to jump the train and go on with the job.

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It was perfectly evident that she knew more than King -- more than the general at Peshawur -- more than the viceroy at Simla -- probably more than the British government -- concerning what was about to happen in Islam.

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