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Such a shower of arrows was thrown upon the boat that every man was more or less wounded. The moment the bows touched the beach, the steel-clad horsemen plunged upon the foe, and cut their way through them with blood-dripping sabres. Other native warriors were however hurrying to the assistance of their comrades.
The Sheriff, who followed close with the men on horseback, also saw the wound and gave a great huzza. "Ha! you will shoot no more bows for a season, master outlaw!" he shouted. "You lie!" retorted Robin fiercely, wrenching the shaft from his hand despite the streaming blood; "I have saved one shot for you all this day. Here take it!"
The launch sent up a sharp series of whistles, and random shots were for some time fired into the bushes. "It is lucky she didn't carry a small gun in her bows," Vincent said, "for though seven or eight hundred yards is a long range for a rifle, they might likely enough have hit us if they had had a gun.
"No, we preferred to have Jewel plan our campaign, and she seemed to think that the driving part had better wait for you." The broker turned and looked down at the smooth head with billowy ribbon bows behind the ears. Noting his expression, or lack of it, Julia wondered, momentarily, if she might have dreamed the episode of kissing into the telephone. "What is your plan, Jewel?" he asked.
Christ is come to loose us all from the yoke of bondage, which bows our faces to the ground, and makes us unfit to look up. He only can loose us, and His way of doing it is to assure us that we are free, and to give us power to fling off the oppression in the strength of faith in Him. The 'back bowed down always' for eighteen weary years is not too stiff to be made straight at once.
There was another shock, and Dexter started up, saw that he had run into the boat ahead, and that one of the two sailors, who had been rowing, had taken hold of the bows. He saw that at a glance, but he also saw something else which seemed to freeze the blood in his breast.
Then he gave me one of his little bows; and off they went, she as pleased as Punch. I really was sorry for him." Gyp said quietly: "Ah! you needn't have been, Auntie; he'll always be able to be sorry for himself." A little shocked at her niece's cynicism, Aunt Rosamund was silent. The poor lady had not lived with Fiorsen!
"There," said he, "you won't break that." The finishing touch was thinly coating the bows with some varnish found among the paint supplies. "Makes my old bow look purty sick," remarked Sam, as he held up the really fine new weapon in contrast with the wretched little hoop that had embodied his early ideas. "Now what do you know about arrers, mister?" as he tried his old arrow in the new bow.
Astonished at the resolution of our men, and terrified at the effect of our weapons, the Indians fled, leaving most of their bows and arrows behind; and great numbers of them would certainly have been killed, but the pilot of the caravel, who commanded the boats crew, restrained our people from any farther vengeance.
However, we owed our light escape mainly to the fact that the enemy, having armed hurriedly, and expecting only to fight with us at close quarters, had with them neither bows nor slings but for which fortunate fact it scarcely is possible that a single man in our boat would have come off alive.
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