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Buckley," said the Captain; "which is unnecessary, as it is just what your father will do. Fight, sir! hunt 'em down. Shoot 'em! They will give you no quarter: be sure you don't give them any." A wild discordant bellow was here heard from the ship, on which the Captain slapped his leg, and said, "Dash my buttons, if he hasn't got hold of my speaking-trumpet."
We must have people to kill whales, though you never will catch me chasing after a whale again, as long as my name is Jack Mason. Whales do not always run like the one I have told you about. Sometimes they fight. After they are struck with the harpoon, they lift their tail, or fluke, as they call it, and strike the boat so hard as to dash it in pieces.
Shall we put it off till to-morrow?" She started up, wild and flushed, with a desperate s elf-command in her face, with an angry resolution in her manner. "No!" she said. "I must harden myself and I will! Sit down again and see me act." "Bravo!" cried the captain. "Dash at it, my beauty and it's done!"
He soon saw her leave the direct road that led across them, and take a path over the heath as if intending to dash through the thickest of the timber. At the same instant Clotilde ran up to him, and touching his shoulder with the tip of her whip: "Where in the world is Julia going?" she said. Lucan replied with a vague gesture and a smile.
He lies!" "He is a very wicked, dangerous man, and gives the Duke very pernicious advice; he wants to ruin the State because we have refused to make him cardinal, and has publicly boasted that he will set fire to the four corners of the kingdom, and that he will have 100,000 men in readiness to dash out the brains of those that shall attempt to put it out."
The servant looked doubtful on the point. 'There's company tonight, sir. 'I knew he was making a night of it, said Charteris to Tony. 'It's not Mr MacArthur we want to see. It's dash it, what's the Babe's name? 'Robert, I believe. Wouldn't swear to it. 'Mr Robert. Is he in? It seemed to Charteris that the form of this question smacked of Ollendorf.
If I do attack in this manner I propose to send the boats in towing behind the native craft, so that when the enemy’s fire becomes really heavy the men can take their places in these, and so be in shelter until close enough to make a dash. Is there any other suggestion you can offer I?” “No, sir. The plan of taking the boats certainly seems to me to be a good one.” The captain smiled a little.
The ninth inning proved beyond a shadow of doubt how baseball fate, in common with other fates, loved to balance the chances, to lift up one, then the other, to lend a deceitful hope only to dash it away. Providence had almost three times enough to win.
So fierce was the onslaught that though the Roman ranks remained comparatively unbroken, they were pressed back by the sheer weight of their enemies, but only to recoil, and as they advanced to recover their lost ground, it was over the bodies of some of their wounded men, and to Marcus' horror he found himself once more called upon to dash forward to another's help.
He frequented the great shop doors, thronged with brilliantly-dressed ladies, and watched to see if his little sister might not dash up in one of those satin-lined coaches and take him where he would be warm and safe and would sleep undisturbed by drunken, ribald songs and loathsome surroundings.
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