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The troops came out, and I waited for the result, which was the discovery that the call was due to a misunderstanding of the signal rockets. I left Annapolis in a small steam tug that came out of the Raritan Canal. We were buffeted about in the bay by a heavy wind, the captain lost his reckoning, anchored, and the next morning we found ourselves uncomfortably near to the Maryland shore.
This plan did not succeed so well as Don Luis had anticipated, for, as soon as the fleet of these three ships left the bay it was so buffeted by the weather that it could not fetch the port of Bolinao or hold the sea. The flagship sprung a leak, and the ships returned to the mouth of the bay above Miraveles, where they stayed several days refitting.
I saw his head protruding from the nacelle, incased in a flying helmet of perfectly black leather. At that height the remous and gusts hit him at unexpected angles, and his machine rose and fell and rocked, as if upon the waves of an invisible ocean. It was buffeted about until I knew that he could not be on his seat half the time.
But when another's face is buffeted, perhaps a little of the lion will become us best. That we are to suffer others to be injured, and stand by, is not conceivable and surely not desirable. Revenge, says Bacon, is a kind of wild justice; its judgments at least are delivered by an insane judge; and in our own quarrel we can see nothing truly and do nothing wisely.
I wish it were over with." "So do I," Mr. Tucker said. Captain Meford activated the ramp and eased the scout out. It was immediately buffeted by the winds. "Sorry," he said. "It'll take a minute. Hold tight." The scout moved in three dimensions, erratically. "Wow! Let's set it at about twenty-six inches. Sorry. This will slow us down, but it will ease the bumps on down draft. There. That's better.
Puritanism, her first born, groaned under the pressure of her hand. The Baptists, founded by a taylor, followed, and were buffeted by both. Independency appeared, ponderous as an elephant, and trampled upon all three.
For the little raft of ice, even that has crumbled beneath its burden, and she sinks, sinks, with succor close at hand! Sinks! No, she rises and floats again. She clasps something that holds her head just above water. But the unmannerly ice has buffeted her hat off. The fragments toss it about, that pretty Amazonian hat, with its alert feather, all drooping and draggled.
'One by one all the familiar manifestations of the spiritualistic medium are being reproduced by this pretty maiden here in this mountain home." "Good Lord, what a pity!" exclaimed Serviss. Britt read on: "'The mother, aggrieved and alarmed by the rude way in which the girl is buffeted, has been put to her paces to conceal the topsy-turvy doings of her household.
Ever creating, never realizing; living in a world of beauty etherialized in imagination's lens, and hating the material world as it is; buffeted by fortune and ridiculed by fools whose conceptions never rise above the dirt. A little note, sweetly scented, is placed in his hand: "Cousin and I propose a ride. Shall we have your company? You are aware it is the Sabbath.
In his darkest days he had had but one simple, practical impulse the desire, as he would have phrased it, to see the thing through. He did so at last, buffeted his way into smooth waters, and made money largely.
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