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  • The swinging wirerope bridge was intact, and by this bridge the punitive expedition of, say, I2,000 men and 4,000 animals was now about to march into the mountains, through the valleys of Dir and Bajaur, past the Mamund country, finally rejoining civilisation in the plains of India after subduing the Mohmands, another tribe who had also been extremely contumacious in the neighborhood of Peshawar.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • The swinging wirerope bridge was intact, and by this bridge the punitive expedition of, say, I2,000 men and 4,000 animals was now about to march into the mountains, through the valleys of Dir and Bajaur, past the Mamund country, finally rejoining civilisation in the plains of India after subduing the Mohmands, another tribe who had also been extremely contumacious in the neighborhood of Peshawar.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • The swinging wirerope bridge was intact, and by this bridge the punitive expedition of, say, I2,000 men and 4,000 animals was now about to march into the mountains, through the valleys of Dir and Bajaur, past the Mamund country, finally rejoining civilisation in the plains of India after subduing the Mohmands, another tribe who had also been extremely contumacious in the neighborhood of Peshawar.

    MY EARLY LIFE WINSTON CHURCHILL 2003

  • And then -- but it was of no conceivable importance -- a wirerope raced through his hand, burning it, the high bank disappeared, and with it all the slowly dispersing factors of the problem.

    The Day's Work - Volume 1 Rudyard Kipling 1900

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