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The man stood swaying, pinned there by his foot and held erect. Then he made one desperate lunge, fell forward across the barricade, and hung there. Wogan parried the lunge; the sword fell from the man's hand and clattered onto the floor within the barricade. Wogan stamped upon it with his heel and snapped the blade.
Yet, he was not too quick, for the murderous knife was swinging above Dave's chest and a hand was at his throat, when Jarvis clove the assailant's skull with his ice-anchor. With a groan the man collapsed. The knife clattered to the deck. Jarvis dropped to the floor panting. "Are you hurt?" he gasped. "No! Are you?" "Not a scratch. Some jolly little weapon, them ice-h'anchors.
"You may attain your end more easily," said a third voice, mingling in the conference, "by entrusting it to me." All Highlanders are superstitious. "The Enemy of Mankind is among us!" said Ranald MacEagh, springing to his feet. His chains clattered as he rose, while he drew himself as far as they permitted from the quarter whence the voice appeared to proceed.
We went back to help Lashly, who had restarted his engine. If not so dashingly, on account of his slower speed, he also now took the slope without hitch and got a last handshake as he clattered forward. His engine was not working so well as the other, but I think mainly owing to the first overheating and a want of adjustment resulting therefrom.
The sea made a sort of clucking noise about the rocks; and at the right inland it washed upon a cave-floor of pebbles, which clattered slightly as the swell moved them. The roof dripped a little, and there were little pools on both the landings, and the whole place had a queer, dim, green, uncanny light upon it; due, I suppose, to the deep water of the channel.
He could hear the buzzing of tongues, the shifting of the court room on the unstable chairs, and he knew fingers were pointing at him. For once in his life he had not the strength to face his fellow men. A quarter of an hour a knock on the door then the six men clattered forth again, to hand a piece of paper to the coroner.
He ceased; the wind howled furiously outside, flinging gusty dashes of rain against the one window of the room, a tall arched casement that clattered noisily with every blow inflicted upon it by the storm. Heliobas gave him a swift, searching glance, half pitying, half disdainful. "Haschisch or opium should serve your turn," he said curtly.
Early on Thursday Kilpatrick's cavalry clattered through the town, and on the further side some skirmishing occurred and an occasional cannon shot was thought to be the opening of battle. Slocum's infantry marched through after the cavalry advance-guard, and the heavy rattling of cannon and caissons with the shouting of the drivers of the trains seemed a pandemonium to unaccustomed ears.
Ask her to come in. He himself retreated into the darkness of the studio, clinging, so the charwoman noticed, to the back of a chair, as though for support. Wondering 'what was up, she clattered back again down the long passage which led from the sitting-room to the studio. But Eugénie had heard the opening door and came to meet her. 'Is anything wrong? she asked, anxiously. 'Is Mr.
Presently there came the sound of running feet, and heavy boots clattered up the rocky road towards the Mess past the gate. Then the butler's voice rang out in challenge: "Kohn jatha? A panting voice answered: "Wargrave Sahib murgya. "O God! O God!" cried the girl, and tried to break from her friend's clasp. "Let me go! Let me go!"
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