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Harwood alone asked a question. "I'm fer fightin', sir," he said grimly, "but what'll we use? Them lads ain't comin' aboard bare-handed, but damn if I've seed a weapon on this hooker." "Dar's three knives, an' a meat cleaver in der galley, sah," chimed in Sam. "We'll do well enough; some of you have your sheath knives yet, and the rest can use belaying pins, and capstan bars.
Emaciated arms and legs attached to a torso which seemed to be mostly distorted abdomen completed the "holy vision of her radiant beauty." Surrounding her were a number of female slaves, among them Phaidor, white and trembling. "This is the man who slew seven of the First Born and, bare-handed, bound Dator Xodar with his own harness?" asked Issus.
"Not nearer just there and I can't lose! . . . It isn't in the cards to lose, Carlin " Yet his mind knew he could not win. The cobra's head and hood recoiled with each blow. It took Skag's highest speed as an outfielder takes a drive bare-handed, his hands giving with the ball. The head moved past all swiftness, even the speed greatest swordsmen know. It was like something that laughed.
Several times they narrowly escaped getting mixed up in the native conflicts. Tom had one striking evidence of his giant servant's usefulness. One day he was stalking a small beast, like a deer, when, from a tree overhead, a jaguar sprang down at him. But Koku I beg his pardon August was at hand, and, like Sampson of old, the giant slew the beast bare-handed, choking it to death.
We worked bare-handed and wildly. Mother joined in. "Go ahead and make it deeper, Jesse," father ordered, He stood up and rushed away in the gray light, shouting commands as he ran. I was Jesse Fancher. "Lie down!" I could hear him. "Get behind the wagon wheels and burrow in the sand! Family men, get the women and children out of the wagons! Hold your fire! No more shooting!
I think I am not overstating the truth when I say that every city in the United States has been looted by the politicians of various parties. It is of public record that Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, and New York citizens have repeatedly risen and shown that the city was being robbed in the most bare-handed manner.
That meant the boys would bait with selected offal of the cod as the fish were cleaned an improvement on paddling bare-handed in the little bait-barrels below.
That's just about the last touch that you, Tom Lingard, red-eyed Tom, King Tom, and all those fine names, that you should leave your weapons twenty miles behind you, your men, your guns, your brig that is your strength, and come along here with your mouth full of fight, bare-handed and with a woman in tow. Well well!"
"They ain't talking about much else up our way," said Harry, "but how you come across the mountains in the storm, and how big you are, and how you got the sheriff, and how you rushed Pete Reeve bare-handed. Sure is some story! All the way down I just had to say that I was Bull Hunter's cousin to get free meals!" He licked his lips and grinned again. "So I come down to see how you was."
He turned blindly to find the doorway of the stairs and cried, "Father! father!" "Son!" He started for the sound, groped against the wall, sank to his knees, and fell backward. "Room, here, room!" "Give him air!" "By George, sir, he rushed right in bare-handed between 'em, orderin' Haggard" "Stand back, you-all, and make way for Judge March!" "Oh, son, son!"
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