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The muscular power of his arms was well known at Garthowen, and now it stood him in good stead, for calling his full strength to his aid, he succeeded by a sudden wrench in turning the bull's head aside, so that the direct force of his attack came upon the ground instead of the girl's body.
They've clar'd out Yellow Bluff, an' are pourin' like Niagara down upon Rasper's Creek. It's said that they'll visit Roarin' Bull's ranch to-morrow. No time for more talk, boys. Oratin' ain't in my line.
"Then it's war?" Bull shrugged at the challenge. "I'm quite indifferent," he said coldly. There was a moment of tense silence. Then the Swede smiled. "You're ready then to let the fool public benefit at your expense?" "No." A smile of real humor flashed in Bull's eyes. "At yours." "You mean you think to smash us?" "Just as sure as the sun'll rise to-morrow.
Even one who had never seen Archibald Earl of Douglas, called the Grim, must have known him by his swart complexion, his gigantic frame, his buff coat of bull's hide, and his air of courage, firmness, and sagacity, mixed with indomitable pride.
Ruth tried to open the car door again. But it stuck. Nor was there time for the girl of the Red Mill to vault the door and so escape the charge of the maddened bull. The brute was upon her. The threat of that black bull's charge was as poignant as anything that had heretofore happened to the girl of the Red Mill. After that first outcry, Ruth did not raise her voice at all.
To his bull's head, black hair and body the painter had done justice; there was one point, however, in which the portrait did not correspond with the original the legs were disproportionably short, the painter having substituted his own legs for those of the mayor, which when I perceived I rejoiced that I had not consented to be painted as Pharaoh, for, if I had, the chances are that he would have served me in exactly a similar way as he had served Moses and the mayor.
On the way into the town Professor Newman said, 'You do not seem to be very clear as to the history of John Brown and the battle of Bull's Run. I said I was not very clear about it, so he began from the beginning, so to speak, and the story of John Brown lasted till we reached home again.
There was a fine big bull's eye in the deck overhead, and a circular port in the ship's side, big enough for me to have crept through with some effort, had I so wished, the copper frame of which was glazed with plate glass a full inch thick.
If there's anybody to plunge into that erena, the blood be mine; an' I put my hand, without thinkin', ag'in his black shirt-bosom, to hold him back; but he didn't notice, bein' so excited. 'Now, says I, 'jist wait one minute, and you'll see that bull's tail go between his legs.
The now maddened bull's first tactic was to charge furiously at the red flag, which the espada held at arm's length, and so wonderfully skilled was Frascuelo that he never moved an inch, while the animal rushed by him beneath his arm.
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