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"Didn't you tell me, Jack Brace, that Trafalgar was a glorious battle?" "In coorse I did, for so it was." "Didn't the Frenchmen stick to their guns like men?" "No doubt of it." "An' they didn't haul down their colours, I suppose, till they was about blown to shivers?" "You're about right there, John Adams." "Well, then, you can't say they've got no go in 'em.
"What could canoes do against a fort on a hill?" "They had cannon brought from Canada." "Cannon! Then I s'pose they battered the fort down with 'em, an' you're all that's left." "No, they didn't. They might have done it, but they lost their cannon." "Lost 'em! How could that happen?" "The boat carrying them was blown up, and the cannon with it."
So she gathered her skirts and making a spring, landed on the other side of the river by him; whereupon he drew near to her, wondering at her beauty and grace, and saw a form that the hand of Omnipotence had tanned with the leaves of the Jinn and which had been fostered by Divine solicitude, a form on which the zephyrs of fair fortune had blown and over whose creation favourable planets had presided.
Occasionally a beast will hove under the best treatment; but if you find a lot of them blown up every day, it is time to change their keeper. In cattle which are being forced for exhibition, hove is generally the first warning that the constitution can do no more. I have seen cases so obstinate that they would swell upon hay or straw without turnips.
They were supported by rifle grenade-fire, but their advance was met by intense fire from artillery and machine-guns, so that many were blown to bits or mangled or maimed, and none could reach their comrades in Big Willie trench. While one brigade of the Midland men had been fighting like this on the right, another brigade had been engaged on the left.
"For hard by the vision of red were footprints breathed so to speak upon the floor, fine, slender prints, directed toward him, no more distinct than if a warm breeze had blown away the dampness from the surface of a stone, leaving the outline of a foot fixed there."
"Be quiet, captain, won't you?" exclaimed Tubbs. "We have saved you and ourselves from being blown into the air, and you ought to thank us." The captain made no answer.
Well, it's nearly one, and we had best get a few hours' sleep. I daresay you can manage all right on the sofa in front of the fire. I'll light my spirit lamp, and give you a cup of coffee before we start." The gale had blown itself out next day, but it was a bitter morning when we started upon our journey.
The scouting was over for that occasion. They had done themselves credit, as far as it went; but then, who would ever dream that they would come within an ace of being blown sky-high with the whole upper end of the island?
"Sirs! yon's a water-spout." But before we had time to reply, a convict warder, whom we had not noticed, called sharply to us, "Lie down, or you'll be blown down!" and the gale was upon us. We had quite enough to do to hold on to the ground, and keep the stone-dust out of our eyes by shutting them.
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