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The rope was fastened to a massive iron hook and ran across a curved wooden horse at the tug's stern. Sometimes it slipped along the horse and tightened with a bang, for the clumsy hulk sheered about. When her stern went up one saw an indistinct figure holding the wheel. When they passed the Bar Lightship, Lister climbed to the bridge and for a few minutes looked about.
Before morning they were once more awakened by the "bang" of the great gun. This time they lay still; but when day broke they visited their trap, and found that a second hyena had too rashly pressed his bosom against the fatal string. Night after night they continued their warfare against the hyenas, changing the trap-kraal to different localities in the surrounding neighbourhood.
Kate took a good long aim, and then, summoning all her courage, she pulled the trigger. The gun went off with a tremendous bang! The toadstool trembled for an instant, and then tumbled off the bush. "Hurra!" shouted Harry. "You've hit it fair!" And he ran and brought it to her, riddled with shot-holes.
'I say he shall live like a gentleman! 'I say he shall squat like a Turk! Bang went Andrew's hand on the table: 'I 've pledged my word, mind! Tom made a counter demonstration: 'And I'll have my way! 'Hang it! I can be as eccentric as you, said Andrew. 'And I as much a donkey as you, if I try hard, said Tom.
"I got a good bang in the head," said Barnard; "I'll be all right," he added, sitting up and gazing about him. "Case of look before you leap, hey? Do you know what I did?" "You stepped on the shadow instead of the log," Tom said. "I was going to call to you, but I thought that as long as you're a scout you'd know about that. It was on account of the fire the way it was shining.
We ran as fast as our legs could carry us for two hundred yards, and then turning, walked deliberately home again, as if we had been out taking a walk in the cool morning air. As we approached, we heard the yells of a negro, and Bang high in oath.
Bang, who, it seemed, plumed himself on his erudition, forthwith began "Quae maribus solum tribuunter." Aaron's conceit of exorcising a spirit with the fag end of an old grammar rule would have tickled me under most circumstances; but I was far past laughing. I had more need, God help me, to pray. I made another step. He hitched his chair back.
"What about your leg?" asked the monkey, sitting down on a branch and winding his tail around it so he wouldn't fall off. "I don't see anything the matter." "I mean look out and don't hurt my broken leg," went on the Clown. "Sidney, the little boy who owns me, glued it, but if you bang it too hard it may break all over again and then I'll be in a mighty bad fix." "Oh, excuse me.
When the New York Zoological Society began work on its Park in 1899, the northern half of the Borough of the Bronx was a regular daily hunting-ground for the slaughter of song-birds, and all other birds that could be found. Every Sunday it was "bangetty!" "bang!" from Pelham Bay to Van Cortlandt.
At this moment the door which led to the study was opened, and a voice was heard "Mary, I wish you would take your sweethearts to a more convenient distance." Joey heard the harsh, hollow voice, but recognised it not; he would not turn round to look at Mr Austin, but remained with his back to him, and the door closed again with a bang.
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