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I shot two of them as they came on. One of the others aimed a blow at me, with the butt end of his gun. Fortunately the weapon caught one of the creepers, and flew out of his hand. My revolver had in some way stuck, but it all came right just at the moment, and I shot him. The fourth man bolted.
You have insulted not only our friend Osterberg, but the Debating Society of which I am a member. These things cannot go unnoticed. Apparently you selected Osterberg as a butt for your insults, knowing that, from the nature of his studies, he could not retaliate in the usual manner; but such cowardly bullying shall not be passed over, you shall account to me for your caddish behaviour."
He did not succeed this time. He pulled himself together with a supreme effort. "I think we've both been mutually helpful, Jethro," he said, "mutually helpful." "Well," said Jethro, reflectively, "I don't know as I could have put it as well as that there's somethin' in being an orator." There was another silence, a much longer one. The Honorable Heth threw his butt away, and lighted another cigar.
It was so nearly like the other that if the two had been side by side the difference could not have been told. This one was nailed to a big tree, and after he had looked it over Wild decided to take it down and see if there was anything on the other side of it. He used the butt of a revolver in place of a hammer and soon knocked the barrel-head loose from the tree. Then it was quickly pried off.
This history was told me, and the nest with its operculum shewn me by the late Dr. Butt of Bath, who was some years physician in Jamaica. The production of these nets is indeed a part of the nature or conformation of the animal, and their natural use is to supply the place of wings, when she wishes to remove to another situation.
"You keep steadily on," murmured Bob, as he pushed in for a moment between his two companions; "I'll stop this fellow." Then, allowing the skipper to pass ahead of him, he sprang suddenly aside, and, grasping one of his pistols by the barrel, brought down the butt of the weapon heavily upon the pirate's head as he rushed past.
A pistol flashed in his hand, its butt toward her, and now for the first time she saw another at his hip. She repressed a desire to shudder and stared with dilated eyes at the extended weapon. "Take this gun," he offered. "It ain't much for looks, but it'll go right handy. You can bar the door, too, and the window." She refused to take the weapon.
The English cavalry continued to fight bravely, in their desperation using the butt ends of their muskets; but they were gradually compelled to give way before the enemy, who, seeing their condition, had renewed the attack. The Royalists therefore fell back into the city. When the king re-entered Worcester he saw before him a scene of the most disastrous confusion.
The traveller newly returned from foreign lands was a great butt for the satirists. In Elizabethan times his bows and tremendous politeness, his close-fitting black clothes from Venice, his French accent, his finicky refinements, such as perfumes and pick-tooths, were highly offensive to the plain Englishman.
"Yes, yes, of course," cried Rodd, without looking at the speaker, his eyes being fixed upon the young man. "Then this is a French vessel?" cried the officer. "No, sir," replied Uncle Paul. "It is my schooner, and I am not in pursuit of your brig." "Why, it is!" cried Rodd suddenly, as he dropped the butt of his unloaded gun with a thud upon the deck. "I thought I knew you again!
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