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The rage of poor Madame Duval was unspeakable; she dashed the candle out of his hand, stamping upon the floor, and, at last, spat in his face.
He spilled some of it coming up the bank, and when he delivered it to the little man, the latter abused him for not bringing the pail full, and as several of the larger soldiers, who had all in their turn made Samson miserable, were standing about, the little man picked up the pail of water and dashed it into Samson's face.
The next instant he dashed past his master's legs, almost upsetting his balance, and shot out into the room, where he went blundering wildly against walls and furniture. But that bark was significant; the doctor had heard it before and knew what it meant: for it was the cry of the fighter against odds and it meant that the old beast had found his courage again.
Instantly the cabin was a blaze of light. "What's the matter?" cried the boy looking toward the source of the disturbance. "What's going on here, anyway?" Rowdy bounded off his bed and dashed toward the forward cabin with a vim and energy that bespoke ill for someone. "Here, Rowdy," commanded Arnold, "come here, sir." Slowly the dog returned to his master's side.
"No-no-no " Vandeman was the first to come out of it, responding to her voice a good deal as if she dashed cold water in his face, his eyes breaking away from Barbara's, his lips parted in a nervous smile. He ran a hand through his hair an inelegant gesture for him at table and laughed a little. "We ought to be in there," Barbara said to me, a curious stress in her voice.
As he expected, in a moment the window darkened, and the figure of a man was seen trying to look out into the darkness. As he leaned against the glass, Rupert discharged both his pistols into his body, and then, leaping up, dashed in the window, and leapt over the man's body into the room. Maria had sprung up with a scream. "You are safe, Maria," Rupert exclaimed, as he ran to the door.
The shift of course taken by Beatty at four o'clock, accompanied possibly by a corresponding shift of Hipper, opened the range so far in a few minutes that fire slackened on both sides. Beatty then swung to port in order to close to effective range. At 4.15 twelve of his destroyers, acting on the general order to attack when conditions were favorable, dashed out toward the German line.
The boat backed out of the way; the monster's tail rose for an instant and disappeared. "He has sounded," cried Dick. Away ran the line. An oar was held up in the boat. "That means that the line has run out," said Dick. The nearest boat dashed up, and a fresh line was bent on. That soon came to an end, and another, and yet another was joined to it.
He raised his hand as if to strike, but there was a ring in his words which had thrilled the fugitive, who to Rodd's astonishment caught the hand in his, and quick as thought pressed it to his lips, and then dashed into the water and splashed his way to the mouth of the hole. The next moment the disturbed stream was the only trace left, for the fugitive had disappeared.
The high hopes founded on these secret stratagems were suddenly dashed to the earth before the end of the year; the explosion of the Gunpowder Plot blowing the castles in Spain into the air.
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