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Then the stranger drew aside his mask, and the soldier knew that he was Death. "Have you come for me?" asked the soldier. "If so, I will not go with you; so go your way alone." But Death held out his bony hand and beckoned to the soldier. "No," cried the soldier, resolutely; "my time is not come.
Even in the present moment of anxiety he thought with satisfaction of his well-earned advancement, and of the promotion which could not now be far distant. He remembered himself a big, bony youth of twenty, and he reflected that he had made himself what he now was, the accomplished man of the world, the rising diplomatist among those of his years, steadily moving on to success.
He got up, long, lank, upright, hard, with his martial moustache and the bony structure of his face, from which the glance of the sunken eyes seemed to transfix the priest, who stood still, an empty wooden snuff-box held upside down in his hand, and glared back, speechless, at the governor of the mine.
As Tom finished a large farm wagon rattled into sight, drawn by a pair of bony horses and driven by a tall, lank farmer. "Hullo, wot's the matter?" asked the farmer, as he drew rein. "Had a breakdown?" "No, I've had a smash-up," answered Tom. "My brother's ankle is sprained, and we would like to know if you can give him a lift to the next town," put in Dick. "We'll pay you for your trouble."
The principles laid down by me must be strictly adhered to," said he, drumming on the table with his bony fingers. "What is the difficulty? Nonsense, childishness!"
"And what might that be?" asked Barnstable, gravely. "Why, sir," returned Tom, stretching his bony fingers, as he surveyed his broad palm, by the little light that remained, "though I am a peaceable man, I can be roused." "And you have seen the Flying Dutchman?"
The four feet of the tortoise or turtle, and a curious mouth rather like the beak of a bird without teeth, but with jaws hard enough to make a bite from it very painful and a little scaly tail; these are the only parts of the animal not covered by the shields of its bony shells. The Lizard has both limbs and teeth, but no shell.
More than once Barty turned to Larry as if he were about to speak, and then turned away; they came to the Mount Music entrance, and as the car turned in through the gateway, Barty suddenly put his bony and pallid hand on Larry's knee. "There's a thing no one here knows but myself, and I didn't hear it till two days ago, but I can't bear the weight of it any longer.
"Gotcha," said Heine, and lounged away, rolling a brown paper cigarette. The outfit started back again early next morning; and eight days later it returned, still minus its two important figures. Again Heine Schultz rested his bony elbows on the carpeted counter of the shooting gallery, and spoke to Lucy, who this time was alone.
There was a tremor in the Count's voice, and a moisture in his eyes, as he drew himself up in his threadbare decent frock-coat and held out his sinewy hand, stained with the long handling of tobacco in his daily labour. Fischelowitz smiled with uncommon cheerfulness as he grasped the bony fingers heartily. "Thank you," he said. "I accept.
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