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I know those fighters with women's mouths and boys' cheeks. One such from the circle of my own friends, sixteen years old, slipped away from his nursery, and dashed in under, an assumed name among the red-legged Zouaves, in whose company he got an ornamental bullet-mark in one of the earliest conflicts of the war.
I could not find the trace of a bullet-mark either upon the planks or upon the Venetian blinds, therefore, I considered that the thief must have been hit, or if missed, the ball must have passed out as he pushed the blinds aside when in the act of springing through. I suspected the sentry, who was an Egyptian belonging to the "Forty Thieves." He was stripped and examined, but there was no wound.
Suddenly he pointed at a bullet-mark not in any of the targets, but in the wainscoting above and a little to the right of them. "There's a bad shot, father!" he cried. "But you don't know what he aimed at," I objected. "At a target, of course!" "But perhaps his target was differently placed. That shot is many years old."
If this be a bullet-mark, the mummy may date from before the final conquest and submission in A.D. 1496. But it may also have resulted from some accident, like a fall, or from the blow of a stone, a weapon which the Guanches used most skilfully. Mr.
It was pleasant, occasionally, to distinguish a grizzly veteran among this crowd of carpet-knights, the trained soldier of a lifetime, long ago from West Point, who had spent his prime upon the frontier, and very likely could show an Indian bullet-mark on his breast, if such decorations, won in an obscure warfare, were worth the showing now.
I have frequently seen the bodies of natives with only one bullet-mark; and I have extracted bullets that ought to have passed completely through. My "Forty Thieves" were now proud of themselves as experienced in various sports, and they were terribly disgusted at the escape of the hippopotamus. They were never idle for a single day.
Rhetta had time for reflection when she reached home, and deeper reflection than had troubled the well of her remorse as she rode. For there in the light of her room she saw the bullet-mark on the dented badge, which never had come quite straight for all Morgan's pains to hammer out its battle scars.
He even had praise, when praise made German virtue seem by that much greater; and the inference from first to last was of German super-virtue. Some one in the crowd who bore a bullet-mark in proof he did not jest suggested to him that the British army was the biggest and fiercest in the world.
And so thought whisked round till I saw Maskew's face wearing a look of evil triumph, when the pin fell at the auction, and again his face grew deadly pale, and there was the bullet-mark on his brow.
Has a scar that was made by a sword-cut, and a white spot on the side of his neck that looks like a bullet-mark. I think he has been what folks call a 'hard customer." Dudley Venner owned that he had heard little or nothing of him of late years. He had invited himself, and of course it would not be decent not to receive him as a relative.
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