United States or Laos ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Well, that's the man you're dealing with now!" The man, struggling and kicking, biting and clawing like any other cornered wild cat, flung out a cry of utter despair at this, and collapsed suddenly; and in the winking of an eye Cleek's hands had flashed into the two pockets of the dressing-gown the fellow was wearing, and flashed out again with a revolver in one and a shining nickel thing in the other.
Acting on this impulse, determined to have an end, before he could grip me once more in those awful arms, and crush me into unconsciousness, I sprang straight toward him, sending the sharp blade of the hatchet crashing against the skull. The aim was good, the stroke a death blow, yet the monster got me with one jaw, and we fell to the deck together, he savagely clawing me in his death agony.
The ancient freebooter described a somersault and smote the water with a mighty splash, musket and all. Blowing like a grampus, he bobbed to the top, clawing the weeds from his eyes but still clutching the musket. Nobody paid his misfortune the slightest heed. The water deepened suddenly, as has been said, where the current had scoured the bank.
Then he caught up his rifle, the only other gun besides Brodie's, and came hurrying after them. They went up the cliff in a long file, clawing their way, cursing the steepness, now and then one or another of them fumbling uncertainly, close to a slip and a fall. It was clear that, with the possible exception of Swen Brodie, not a man of them was entirely sober.
Then a coal burst into quick flame and he could see the struggle. A broad-shouldered man, stripped to the waist, was fighting with one of the saurians. He had closed its long mouth with a huge hand and was striking again and again at the white throat with a broad-bladed knife. The thing was screeching and clawing at the man's arm.
Cash rushed in and snatched the child from her. "Here! What you doing to that kid? You're scaring him to death and you've got no right!" "I have got a right! I have too got a right!" Marie was clawing like a wildcat at Cash's grimy hands. "He's my baby! He's mine! You ought to be hung for stealing him away from me. Let go he's mine, I tell you. Lovin! Lovin Child! Don't you know Marie?
And down the deck, slanted for the moment to forty- five degrees, Jerry slipped and slid, vainly clawing at the smooth surface for a hold. He fetched up against the foot of the mizzenmast, while Captain Van Horn, with the sailor's eye for the coral patch under his bow, gave the order "Hard a-lee!"
None the less, take care not to speak of the only woman whose name I reverence." And then turning at bay, as even the rat will do, Lionel sprang upon him, with clawing hands outstretched to reach his throat. But Sakr-el-Bahr caught him in a grip that bent him howling to his knees. "You find me strong, eh?" he gibed. "Is it matter for wonder?
She could not utter another word, for that imprisoned thing within her seemed to be clawing at her heart, choking her. If Burke had died if Burke had died! She turned herself quickly from the searching of his eyes, lest he should see and understand. She could not dared not show him her soul just then. The memory of his kiss that single, fiery kiss that had opened her own eyes held her back.
That would have been dishonourable to myself." "You'd rather be jilted?" "Much rather. It's more honourable to be jilted than to jilt." "That's not the world's idea of honour." "It's my idea of it.... And, after all, he was Maurice Jourdain." The pain hung on to the left side of her head, clawing. When she left off reading she could feel it beat like a hammer, driving in a warm nail.
Word Of The Day