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"Who?" asked the Englishman, half raising himself on his elbows. "Halket and the Captain." The Colonial paused in the plucking. "My God, you never saw anything like it!" The Englishman sat upright now, and looked keenly over the bushes where Halket's bent head might be seen as he paced to and fro. "What's he doing out there in this blazing sun?" "He's on guard," said the Colonial.
Adapting his action to his text, John dragged Nicholas into the kitchen, forced him down upon a huge settle beside a blazing fire, poured out from an enormous bottle about a quarter of a pint of spirits, thrust it into his hand, opened his mouth and threw back his head as a sign to him to drink it instantly, and stood with a broad grin of welcome overspreading his great red face like a jolly giant.
Every K.O.A. on his feet lost no time in joining in the 'mad minute' and every K.O.A. who had been asleep or lying down was up in a twinkling and blazing over the parapet before his eyes were properly opened. The machine-gun detachment were more circumspect if no less eager.
All kinds of images were rushing through his brain wide wheat fields with a blazing sun on the stooks a small frame house set nakedly on the flat prairie with a bit of untidy garden round it its living room in winter, with a huge fire, and a woman moving about the creek behind it, and himself taking horses down to water.
So then, as long as my eyes are not robbed of that spectacle with which they cannot be satiated, so long as I may look upon the sun and moon, and fix my lingering gaze on the other constellations, and consider their rising and setting and the spaces between them and the causes of their less and greater speed, while I may contemplate the multitude of stars glittering throughout the heaven, some stationary, some revolving, some suddenly blazing forth, others dazzling the gaze with a flood of fire as though they fell, and others leaving over a long space their trails of light; while I am in the midst of such phenomena, and mingle myself, as far as a man may, with things celestial, while my soul is ever occupied in contemplations so sublime as these, what matters it what ground I tread?
Stop at the threshold! This is a hall of judgment you are entering; the court is in session; and if you move five steps forward, you will be at its bar. There was a tribunal once in France, as you may remember, called the Chambre Ardente, the Burning Chamber. It was hung all round with lamps, and hence its name. The burning chamber for the trial of young maidens is the blazing ball-room.
A few instants later the one-sided combat was brightly lit up by the flare of blazing curtains and rapidly kindling panelling.
"An honorable man is one too many in this company!" In the street below he talked aloud to himself; he was in a blazing temper. "It was only a play," said Pelle dejectedly. In his heart he was ashamed of his father. "You needn't try to teach me about that! I know very well that it all happened long ago and that I can do nothing to alter it, not if I was to stand on my head.
She was nearly wild with joy, when told of the find they had made, and vowed that she would go with them in the morning, when they started out to look for the Cave of Gold, in spite of the seemingly dangerous climb along the big limb of the Big Tree. Half an hour later Pedro returned with a big chunk of bear meat, which was soon roasting on wooden spits placed around the blazing camp-fire.
First, they played a game of croquet, under umbrellas, for the sun was blazing on the ground: that was for exercise; then, for mental discipline, they read history for an hour in the library; and then, for relaxation, under veils and sunhats, read Ruskin for two hours by the river.
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