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When the woollen-draper was nearly worn out, the Amazon watched her opportunity, and hitting him on the arm, disabled it. "That's for Mrs. Wood," she cried, as the staff fell from his grasp. "I'm at your mercy, Poll," rejoined Kneebone, abjectly. "That's for Winifred," vociferated the Amazon, bringing the cudgel heavily upon his shoulder. "Damnation!" cried Kneebone.
And as he had more than half expected, he found nothing. The magnificent vistas, carpeted in snow, gave him no view of anything but snow. Later he must cudgel his brains and seek elsewhere. Now, with other work to be done, he should go back the shortest, quickest way. So he set his feet into the trail which they had made, and turned his back upon the grove.
He gazed at the galley-sergeant standing a few paces from him; the galley-sergeant seemed a phantom to him. All of a sudden the phantom dealt him a blow with his cudgel. Visible nature hardly existed for him. It would almost be true to say that there existed for Jean Valjean neither sun, nor fine summer days, nor radiant sky, nor fresh April dawns.
Sorrow tak me if I thought there was a man in ten parishes could hae done the like! Gie's yer hand," said he, as he rose to his feet; "I'll thraw nor cudgel nae mair wi' you; but, as sure as my name's Andrew, I would bite my last coin through the middle, to gie ye the half o't, should ye want it.
Simon got to his feet, partly because he was afraid of another blow from the cudgel, and partly because he had a very great desire to know something of the Garulies. "Come along! come along!" said the queer little man, as he gave Simon another tap.
I should think so!" replied Maryllia, holding the objectionable plumes as far away from herself as possible, "No wonder we've been unfortunate, if these feathers were always in the old house! No wonder everything went wrong! I must break the spell at once and for ever. Are there more of these horrible 'witch-eyes' in any of the rooms?" Poor Mrs. Spruce made a great effort to cudgel her memory.
All the animal in the man being roused, he longed to throw himself on his antagonist to grasp his throat, but the successful use of the cudgel against the sword indicated that this was an adept at quarter-staff and a man with naked hands would have easily been beaten if pitted with him.
She supposed it to be one of the labourers, and in a sudden terror hid herself behind an ash-bole on the brink. The man went by, still whistling cheerfully. She peered around the tree and watched him as he retreated a broad-shouldered man, swinging a cudgel.
The report of my gun at first startled them, but on their discovering that no other bird of their community had suffered, they flew after us, uttering loud shrieks. I defended myself by using my gun as a cudgel; while Chumbo, picking up a thick stick, fought them bravely, swinging it round and round his head so that none of them ventured within its reach.
Walter relieved his mind by returning, "Oh that I could cudgel the rogue soundly!" At the same time Colonel Enderby turned to their mother, saying, "Take comfort, madam, this fellow's tale carries discredit on the face of it. Let me examine him, with your permission. Where did you last see your master?" "I know none of your places, sir," answered Diggory, sullenly.
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