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Then, suddenly, an answering bugle sang out from the other flank. "Advance in echelon!" commanded Colonel Carter, and the bugler did his best to split his cheeks in a battle-rending blast. "You remain where you are, sir!" he ordered young Bellairs. "Keep your guns served to the utmost!"
The Manitou has counseled the Great Oak in his sleep; the women are in tears, and the young men are silent. We have spoken, and we wait for the voice of our Sachem." "Why do my children wait for the voice of a Chief, whose words fall like leaves in the cold blast to be trod on by boys?" "The words of the Great Oak, like the leaves, can bury the people.
It is not easy to sleep, when the very next flash may tear the ship in two, or set her on fire; or where the deathlike calm may be broken by the blast of a hurricane, taking the masts out of the ship. But a man is no sailor if he cannot sleep when he turns-in, and turn out when he's called.
But when the clock showed two minutes before the hour of one in the morning these words came in a blast: "The hou-ou-our of de-eath is at hand. The Gr-r-rim Rea-eaper is at the doo-oor!" "Then please, please, please GO AWAY!" screamed Hen, his teeth clacking a bone solo. Then half an hour passed, a quarter-gale of wind making the only sound that came from outside.
If you go to the land of your nation, there that ghost will attend you, and say to your relatives, see my murderers! If you plant, it will blast your corn; if you hunt, it will scare your game; and when you are asleep, its groans, and the sight of an avenging tomahawk, will awake you! What can you do?
He'll sit and smoke in calm repose Until the trump for breakfast blows His breakfast-time at length is past, And he must wait another blast; So at the sound of the last shell, He takes his seat and all is well."
He enlisted other lawyers on his side to attack the composition of Durham's council. The storm Brougham raised might have done no harm, if Durham's political allies had stood by him like men. But the prime minister Melbourne, always a timorous friend, bent before the blast, and Durham's ordinance was disallowed.
Passing them without an effort, as it seemed, we threw them into the rear with so lengthening an interval between us as proved in itself the bitterest mockery of their presumption; whilst our guard blew back a shattering blast of triumph that was really too painfully full of derision. I mention this little incident for its connexion with what followed.
"If he doesn't, then, blast it, I will!" "Aw, now take it easy, Astro!" "Take it easy, nothing!" Astro was building up a big head of steam. "Where is that space crawler right now?" "I don't know. He never came back. Wasn't even down at mess tonight." "There, that's just what I mean!" Astro turned to Tom to press his point. "It's close to bed-check and he isn't in quarters yet.
But when the horn sounded yet a third time, and the blast was one of so dreadful a vehemence, everybody looked at the other, and then they all looked at Gan in a fury. Charles rose from his seat. "This is no hunting of the stag," said he. "The sound goes to my very heart. O Gan! O Gan! Not for thee do I blush, but for myself. O foul and monstrous villain!
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