United States or Moldova ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
The reader may there see, if he pleases, a man of genius delivered up to brutes, coarse, angry, despotic animals, who listen to nothing, who comprehend nothing, who do not even understand terms in common use, who stumble through their queries, and who, to ape intelligence, draggle their pens along in supreme stupidity. The overthrow is complete.
He was right; many elephants had travelled this path one quite recently. I, a hunter of those brutes, could not be deceived on this point. Once or twice also I thought that I caught sight of the outline of some tall creature moving silently through the scattered thorns a couple of hundred yards or so to our right.
Sanine who had heard nothing yet who had seen and comprehended all, followed him, roused almost to a feeling of jealousy. "Brutes like that are always lucky," he thought to himself, "What the devil does it all mean? Lida and he?" At supper, Maria Ivanovna seemed in a bad temper. Tanaroff as usual said nothing.
Superficially the contagion of these brutes was upon me, but deep down within me the laughter and disgust struggled together. We ran through a long list of prohibitions, and then the chant swung round to a new formula. "His is the House of Pain. "His is the Hand that makes. "His is the Hand that wounds. "His is the Hand that heals."
In fact, all the weapons which we women are so fond of employing against men. Whereas, here I am at the feet of my Lord Jack his indifference is insufferable! Oh! I'll pay him back for this!" she cried, pale with anger. "Men are brutes all of them!" remarked Bessie laconically, rising to a sitting posture on the sofa. "I hate him hate him!" continued Blanch in a fresh paroxysm of passion.
At that the Commissary closed his window. "All is over," said the singer. "The serenade was perhaps ill- judged. These boors have no sense of humour." "Let us get away from here," said Elvira, with a shiver. "All these people looking it is so rude and so brutal." And then giving way once more to passion "Brutes!" she cried aloud to the candle-lit spectators "brutes! brutes! brutes!"
"Yes," replied the chief, "and not only that, but there are two old ones, and the rest are young, so they must fetch their mates and cubs, that all may enjoy the great feast." "Ha! ha! chief," laughed Howe; "but that is going it strong for the brutes!" "Don't laugh, uncle," said Jane. "It is really horrible to be torn to pieces by these animals."
He was accustomed to sleep as soldiers sleep, in all the din of a camp, or with the roar of savage brutes echoing from the hills around, with his saddle beneath his head, under a slab of rock, or with the knowledge that at every instant the alarm might be given, the drums roll out over the night, and the enemy be down like lightning on the bivouac.
"Tokutarô little knows what goes on in the world, or he would not speak so. How many myriads of men are there who have been bewitched by foxes? Why, there have been at least twenty or thirty men tricked by the brutes on the Maki Moor alone. It's hard to disprove facts that have happened before our eyes." "You're no better than a pack of born idiots," said Tokutarô.
Where are those brutes, your enemies, said I, do you know where they are gone? There they lye, sir, said he, pointing to a thicket of trees; my heart trembles, for fear they have seen us, and heard you speak, if they have, they will certainly murther us all. Have they any fire-arms, said I, he answered they had only two pieces, and one which they left in the boat.
Word Of The Day