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Then, working cautiously, we rolled back the log, replaced the dead leaves, brushed up the deep green pile of the moss, and smoothed all as craftily us we might, so that no Seneca prowling might suspect that a grave was here, and disinter the dead to take his scalp. Over the blood-wet leaves where he had fallen, we made a fire of dry twigs, letting it burn enough to deceive.
He exhorted them to use their best endeavors to preserve peace; especially at this time, when ill-disposed persons, taking advantage of people's uneasiness at those inevitable pressures under which they labored, and must necessarily for some time be subjected to, might craftily incite them to insurrection.
For still, at every turn of my shifting fantasies, the thought stared me in the face that some evil thing had befallen us, or was ready to befall. Yielding to this ominous impression, I now turned aside into the woods, resolving to spy out the posture of the Community as craftily as the wild Indian before he makes his onset.
But owing to the general opposition among the mariners, which was craftily managed by Mahew's brothers, Lyon was unable to carry the earl's orders into effect. Gilbert Mahew then went to the earl and said that if he were appointed in Lyon's place he would carry the thing out.
And Ali said that the great ones of the place must needs be gathered together, and to this end Shep and Shooshan went into the town and there spoke craftily. For they said that Ali had of his wisdom contrived as it were a patent and a novelty which should greatly benefit England.
He would bark and dance about in front of the bull, just out of reach of the great antlers and of the terrible splay hoofs which could have stamped his life out with a single blow. Unable to turn his back on the fanged danger and go on, the bull would be driven into paroxysms of rage. At such moments he charged Buck, who retreated craftily, luring him on by a simulated inability to escape.
Rolf, seeing him lie abjectly on his face in order to gather up the money, smiled at the sight of a man prostrated by his own gifts, just as if he were seeking covetously to regain what he had craftily yielded up. The Swedes were content with their booty, and Rolf quickly retired to his ships, and managed to escape by rowing violently.
And Athene said: "Think, man of many devices, how thou wilt lay hands on these men, suitors of thy wife, who for three years have sat in thy house devouring thy substance. And she hath answered them craftily, making many promises, but still waiting for thy coming." Then Ulysses said: "Truly I should have perished but for thee.
"And I wanted to talk with you about" his left eyelid, red and puffy, drooped, and his right eye squinted craftily "about reclamation." "I can't imagine what common interests you and I have in reclamation. And I am in a hurry." Oliver Swinnerton chuckled as at a rare jest. "How do, Kent?" was what he said, having seen Jimmie Kent, it would seem, for the first time.
Then the Utes stampeded them clean out of the country, and I bought up their titles at a fair figure." "And you own even that splendid pool up where I had my camp?" "Everything wet on this range that a cow or hawss can get to, this time of year." Ashton considered, and advised craftily: "Don't tell him this. Does Miss Chuckie know it?"
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