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"Load both your guns again," said Alexander, "and then let me have a shot, Major." As soon as the Major's guns were loaded, Alexander took aim and fired. The shot broke the lion's fore-leg, which he raised up with a voice of thunder, and made a spring from the rock towards where our party stood. "Steady now," cried the Major to Bremen, at the same time handing his spare rifle to Alexander.
Tayoga also pulled trigger, but Robert did not yet see anything at which to aim, although the sound of shots from the two hostile fronts was now almost continuous. The combat in the dim mists had a certain weird quality and Robert's imaginative mind heightened its effect. It was almost like the blind shooting at the blind. A pink dot would appear in the fog, expand a little, and then go out.
"It's no affair of mine," I said; "but I should have thought I dare say I am wrong. There may be no moral guilt about killing policemen." "But they won't be killed," said Clithering. "Our one aim is to avoid bloodshed." "You're trying the police rather high," I said. "They'll do what you tell them, of course.
Only think that my whole life ever since I was born, I might almost say has tended toward the same aim, that I worked like a convict before becoming what I am and to realize, in its perfection, the type which I wished to create which I have succeeded in creating. That being so what can you do?
So he went off into the forest, and before long a fine stag, such as he had seen in his dream, stopped just in front of him. He took aim, and was about to fire when the stag bounded away.
Your pa has took me into a confidence game, says I, speakin' to all the children, 'but I was never one to draw back from what I'd put my hand to, an' I aim to do right by you if you do right by me. You mind, says I, 'an' you won't have no trouble; an' the same thing, says I to James, 'applies to you.
This care for domestic details in Kitty, so opposed to Levin's ideal of exalted happiness, was at first one of the disappointments; and this sweet care of her household, the aim of which he did not understand, but could not help loving, was one of the new happy surprises. Another disappointment and happy surprise came in their quarrels.
Instead of taking aim at him, he was enthusiastically cheered by the seamen; and, as if with one consent, the muskets were all dropped, and the firing discontinued until he had again got down under cover, and was safe. The boom being at length severed, the fort in a few minutes was in our possession. Our late first lieutenant, Mr.
They secured the means of obtaining all kinds of donations, the constant aim of the skillful policy and merciless cupidity of these priests.
Presently the crack of Argent's rifle was followed by the spring of a buck high into the air, all four feet together, poor animal, as the death-pang pierced his heart. 'I thought I never should get fair aim, from the way he was protected by trees, said the sportsman, reloading with satisfaction.
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