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"My mother left me the same awful legacy," said he. "She left her forgiveness, if he lived; oblivion of all her wrongs, if dead. Oh! what bolt of vengeance is red enough for the wretch who could destroy the happiness of two such women as your mother and mine! All-righteous Providence, may thy retributive fires " "Stop! stop!"
'Bigger fellow: but have no fear, the earl said over his shoulder to Madge. She said in return: 'Oh, I don't know, I'm praying. Kit was now on his toes, all himself, like one who has found the key. He feinted. Quick as lightning, he landed a bolt on Ben's jib, just at the toll-bar of the bridge, between the eyes, and was off, out of reach, elastic; Ben's counter fell short by a couple of inches.
Sponge found his portmanteau standing bolt upright in the passage, with the bag alongside of it, just as they had been chucked out of the phaeton by Bartholomew Badger, who, having got orders to put the horse right, and then to put himself right to wait at dinner, Mr. Jogglebury proceeded to vociferate: 'Murry Ann!
It was a common saying in those days when vessels were being overpowered with canvas, "The old lady was talking to us now," i.e. the vessel was asking to have some of the burden of sail taken off her. I have known topmasts to be carried away, but it generally occurred through some flaw in a bolt or unseen defect in the rigging. So much depends on the security of little things.
He shook her, lifted his eyebrows at her, pursed his lips at her, shook her again and kissed her. "I can't love a girl who's afraid of thunder. Your mother's all right, you know. We saw where that bolt struck fifty yards, almost, from where she was. She got a shock, that's all. But we'll have a doctor here and make him take the responsibility.
'Now we shall soon have these broken swordsmen in every town of Italy between France and Rome. Such a net Pole shall not easily break through. 'It were well he were done with soon, Cromwell said. 'The King shall love us much the more; and it is time. 'Why, there will in two days be such a clamour of assassins in Paris that he shall soon bolt from there towards Rome, Viridus answered.
At length, passing through the thicket where you found us, I was surprised by a cross-bow bolt whizzing past mine head. I drew my sword and rushed into the thicket, but was instantly assailed by two ruffians, while other two made towards my sister and Gregory. I was already slightly wounded, and nearly overlaid with odds.
"Yes, a very dangerous case." Jake grew pale, released Rachel's hand, turned over on his side and groaned. "Do you really think so, Doctor?" said Rachel in the same tone. "Yes, really. It's as clear a case of de gustibus non disputandum as I ever saw in my life." "O, Lordie, hev I got all of that?" asked Jake, as he sat bolt upright, with eyes starting.
Having wished him good-night, she paused in the act of opening the door, and looked at the lock. There was no key in it, but there was another protection in the shape of a bolt underneath. "Did you bolt your door when you went to bed?" she asked. "No." The obvious suspicion, suggested by this negative answer, crossed her mind. "What has become of the key of your door?" she inquired next.
It was to be a "bolt from the blue" before declaration and in mid-winter, when the best ships of the home fleet were laid up. The operation was planned on dual lines, the army to start from Dunkirk, the covering fleet from Brest. The surprise was admirably designed.
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