Historical Fiction Whyte-Melville, George: Sarchedon. v1. 2 Feb 2015

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George John Whyte-Melville (19 June 1821 – 5 December 1878)[1] was a Scottish novelist of the sporting-field and a poet.

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Dying in the desert—stretched, limp and helpless, in the darkening waste—poured out like water on the tawny sand—two specks poised high above him in the deeper orange of the upper sky—a wide-winged vulture hovering and wheeling between the stricken lion and the setting sun.

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