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This day was kept a holy-day through the town; and it pleased me to see the little boys walk up and down in procession with their broom-staffs in their hands, as I had myself long ago gone. This ceremony was sometimes enlivened by whipping the boys, for the better impressing on their minds the remembrance of the day, and the boundaries of the parish, instead of beating houses or stones.
Nay, as for thee, I was not sundered from thee, but thou wert a part of me; whereas for the others, yea, even for our daughter, thine and mine, they were but images and shows of men, and I longed to depart from them, and to see thy body and to feel thine heart beating.
Eagle, who had one great claw around my hind leg and another hooked over my shell, not seeming to mind my weight at all, and paying no attention to Old Man Moccasin, who was beating his tail on the water and calling Mr. Eagle bad names and threatening him with everything he could think of.
He had scored the first blood and the first knock-down and Clancy's rushes had proved unavailing. The professional's lip was swollen, one eye was nearly closed, and his ribs were crimson from the terrible beating Jerry had given them. Though his face was not so badly punished as Clancy's, Jerry had not gotten off unscathed.
The whole then followed us without any symptom of fear, but making a dreadful shouting, and beating their spears and shields together, by way of intimidation. It is but justice to my men to say that in this critical situation they evinced the greatest coolness, though it was impossible for any one to witness such a scene with indifference.
Only once was the Adventurer changed from her course, which Steve had laid for Gloucester, and then the light which had aroused their suspicions was soon seen to belong to a coasting schooner beating her way toward Boston.
There is no covert so much in favour of native warfare as the high dhurra, which perfectly conceals their movements, at the same time that it is easily passed through at speed. The Bari drums were beating throughout the country, and their horns were sounding in all directions.
Rose uttered a cry. Mrs. Bordine stood staring, but when the man lifted his hat she uttered a glad cry and rushed to his arms. It was, or seemed to be, August Bordine. Rose waited for her turn with a wildly beating heart. "Stand aside mother, I would speak with Rose." The mother stepped aside then. There was something in the man's voice that sounded unnatural. She felt chilled and rebelled.
Paris became an iridescent dream, and the gambler found his way to the Tortugas, where he doubtless shipped with Morgan, Teach, or some other of the scourges of the Spanish main. Two rovers are credited with beating the governor of Jamaica at another game, after they had lost to him a matter of ten thousand crowns, the earnings of several weeks faithfully devoted to privateering.
"I do; it sounds like some heavy instrument beating the earth close at hand." "Yes, like digging." The three started at the word. No sooner was it uttered than the meaning of it struck them all three, and sent a chill to their very hearts. Digging at that fatal hour, so short a time before daybreak, could have but one significance.
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