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Gunn, pressing through the throng, turned the senseless body over with his foot, and cursing vilely, ordered them to carry it upstairs. Until the surgeon came, Joan, kneeling by the bed, held on to the senseless hand as her only protection against the evil faces of Gunn and his proteges. Gunn himself was taken aback, the innkeeper's death at that time by no means suiting his aims.
Billy Fish and two of his matchlock men catches hold of Dan by the shoulders and drags him into the Bashkai lot, while the priests howls in their lingo, 'Neither God nor Devil, but a man! I was all taken aback, for a priest cut at me in front, and the Army behind began firing into the Bashkai men. "'God A'mighty! says Dan, 'what is the meaning o' this? "'Come back! Come away! says Billy Fish.
Moderate breezes and fair weather until near 5 o'Clock in the A.M., when a heavy Squall from the South-West, attended with rain, took us all aback, and obliged us to put before the wind, the better to take in our Sails; but before this could be done the Foretopsail was split in several places.
He said, 'Got a sweetheart there? I was rather taken aback; but I told him, 'Yes. He said he knew it as soon as I spoke to him on the platform. He asked me who she was, and I told him her name. He said to me, 'Ah! you lucky dog. I told him I did not know that I was not most unlucky, for I had no reason to think she was going to marry me.
Curtis looked rather taken aback, it hardly agreed with her exclusive notions of privacy, and he at once apologized with such humility that she was touched, and felt herself doing him a wrong, whilst Rachel was angry at her scruple, yet uncomfortably thought of "that landscape painter," then said in her decided way, "you did not mean to object, mother?"
You've been in town just long enough to make you think you can trample folks down like so many tumble-bugs." "Well, you have no right to block the road up," the driver said, quite taken aback, his color mounting to his cheeks. "There is a law " "I don't care a dang about your law!" Webb broke in.
The man brought him a scribbled note: "Was rather taken aback by appearance of H. She says you told her I was leaving the hotel. We fell on each other's neck and wept. Is that right? He cut the end off a cigar, lit the paper with a match, and lit the cigar with the paper. "Five thousand pounds!" he said to himself. "It is a lot of money to one who has none.
Suddenly throwing both arms round his neck, she hugged him, and burst into tears. Bumpus was somewhat taken aback by this unexpected explosion; but, being an affectionate man as well as a rugged one, he had no objection whatever to the peculiar treatment.
The captain, who was an old friend of Colin's father when they both lived in a lumbering town in northern Michigan, was greatly taken aback when he found how dangerous the boat-trip had been, but he did not want to spoil the boy's vivid memories of the excitement. "I suppose," he said, "that you want to go out as gunner next time." Colin shook his head.
Fry, much taken aback, seized hold of the boy in amazement; but he begged so hard to be let go as to leave no doubt that his speech was restored; and Lady Eleanor lost no time in sending him off with his mother.
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