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They picked up their rifles, twitched their bow up on land, and turned their faces to the forest. "Stay here," was Pedro's subdued command, "until you hear the bird-call which we taught you down the river." He and Lourenço faded into the dimness and were gone. "Beats me how them guys find their way 'round," muttered Tim.
Beats all how smart some girls is gettin' to be nowadays." The next morning Mr. Taylor called for his mail. He generally sent a boy down from the mill, but this time he came himself.
He gave them the countersign, "Bunker Hill," and ordered them under no circumstances to allow any person to pass without giving it, not even the Commanding General himself. Then the guards were posted, the "beats" laid off and numbered, and as the fast-gathering shadows deepened among the trees the sentinels paced to and fro around the tired army.
It is a pretty generally known fact, so far as females of this class are concerned, that if a man occasionally severely beats his mistress, she regards it as a proof that he entertains for her an ardent affection. It is now getting late, and several of the girls are leaving for home with their new-made male friends, and indications point towards the place being closed for the night.
The poor little bird beats savagely against the wires that are closing her round. And then there are days of pure abandon and coquetry and fun. The buttercup flirts, but she flirts in such an open and ingenuous fashion that nobody is a bit the worse for it.
Tip could feel his heart throb throb with loud, distinct beats; twice he tried to break the silence, and couldn't. At last he found voice: "I do, sir." Mr. Minturn turned quickly. "What makes you think so, Tip?" "Because I love Jesus, and I'm trying to do what He says." Mr. Minturn's voice trembled a little: "God bless you, my boy; try to get all the rest to go through the same gate."
Palpitations of the heart, the missing of beats, and pains in the heart region frequently arise from this cause. It is through their effect upon the nervous system that worry, overstudy, undue excitement, and dissipation cause disturbances of the heart. In all such cases the remedy lies in the removal of the cause.
"Help me to lift him," he said to Stephen; "and, Roger, kindle thou a fire upon the hearth. There may be life in him yet. We will try what we know. Yes, methinks his heart beats faintly; and the tokens of the distemper are plainly out upon him. Perchance he may yet live. Of late I have seen men rise up from their beds whom we have given up for lost."
And golf takes too much time even if there weren't snow on the ground and stable feed's so high I can't afford it. The fool horse would cost more to feed than I do myself." "And even if the percentage beats you, you've got something you never had before, Henry, and that's the solid respect of your community. Everybody knows you hated this job. Everybody's back of you."
Were they waiting for him to get up on a soapbox? There was a crude lighting system here, put up by the citizens. At the front of each building, a dim phosphor bulb glowed; when darkness fell, they would have nothing else to see by. Murdoch bunched them together. "A good clubbing beats hanging," he told them. "But it has to be good.
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