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I'll see her, by thunder! and I'll get her out of their clutches! I swear I will! I'll bring her back here to Rome, and I'll get the Pope himself to bind her to me with a knot that all the old women under heaven can never loosen!" "What! You're going? By Jove! that's odd, for I'm going with a friend on the same road." "Good again! Three cheers!
Happily, Maurice is in admirable health; his constitution is only afraid of frost, a thing unknown here. For his sake I await with impatience the return of fine weather, which will not be long in coming. His piano has at last arrived at Palma; but it is in the clutches of the custom-house officers, who demand from five to six hundred francs duty, and show themselves intractable.
There was a certain coldness in his tone that made me seek by my reply to sound him. "Indeed, I trust not, my friend. With your assistance I hope to get M. de Canaples from the clutches of St. Auban." He shook his head. "It is impossible that I should help you," he replied with increasing coldness.
She pointed out that here at least none could harm her, as they had seen in the treatment meted out to Ishmael a white man whom the Zulus looked upon as their friend. Also she said with conviction that these mysterious Ghost-Kings were very powerful, and could free her from the clutches of the Zulus, and protect her from them afterwards, as they would do when they came to know her case.
I fought to the bitter end with my fists, feet, head, and teeth. Each time I got one hand or leg free from their clutches, I hit right and left at any part where I could disable my opponents. Their timidity, even when in such overwhelming numbers, was indeed beyond description.
Nothing in the world but the lack of money to buy powder saved us from falling into the clutches of the two watchmen who lay secreted for a week in a neighboring sail-loft. It was many a day before the midnight bombardment ceased to be the town-talk. The trick was so audacious and on so grand a scale that nobody thought for an instant of connecting us lads with it.
But when the sport of the floods begins, and the currents are reversed, and the streams hurry down with cross tributes from the hills, and the wild waters have forgotten all control then is when Messasebe the Mighty grasps and clutches with his wide fingers, and exults as of old in his wilderness!
If the money does not come, I will immediately have your property sold." "I have been ahead of you," coolly replied Tompkins. "What do you mean?" "I have already sold the property." The miser seemed stunned by the intelligence. "Sold it?" he asked, after a moment "why have you sold it?" "In order to get out of your clutches, now and for ever.
His Mother instantly collared Pierre, and led him up a side street just in time to escape the clutches of a German officer who had seen him a block away, and came on the run after him. When, puffing and blowing, he at last reached the shop there was no one in sight except Madame Coudert behind her counter. The enraged officer pointed out the insult that had been offered his country.
Rover, indeed, took such a very deep interest in her that he assisted Hellyer and the other coastguardsmen on duty at the spot by helping them bravely in dragging out of the clutches of the waves everything that floated near enough inshore for him to jump at and seize.
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