United States or Timor-Leste ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There is mist on the mountain, and night on the vale, But more dark is the sleep of the sons of the Gael. A stranger commanded it sunk on the land, It has frozen each heart, and benumb'd every hand! The dirk and the target lie sordid with dust, The bloodless claymore is but redden'd with rust; On the hill or the glen if a gun should appear, It is only to war with the heath-cock or deer.
I had been saved by being prompt; the dirk had struck not half a foot below me, as I pursued my upward flight; and there stood Israel Hands with his mouth open and his face upturned to mine, a perfect statue of surprise and disappointment.
Her mother is sickly, and has to go out washing, times when she isn't able to sit up; and there'll be days when she can't hold up her head; and the father is bad, ma'am, and drinks, and swears, and sells things for drink till there ain't nothing left to sell; and Mart hasn't anything to mend her clothes with, and she doesn't know how, anyway; and she hasn't even got a comb to comb her hair with, her father he took it to sell; and everything there is horrid, and Dirk, he's awful."
He took his seat without speaking, nor did the others speak to him till his stepfather Dirk said: "You were not at the works to-day, Adrian, although we should have been glad of your help in founding the culverin." "No, father" he called him father answered the young man in a measured and rather melodious voice. "You see we don't quite know who is going to pay for that piece.
So far, he had been doing no more than the rest of the boys, except when there was roping to be done and he and Stopper were called upon to distinguish themselves by fast rope-work, with never a miss. Sixty dollars a month was as good pay as he had any right to expect. Dirk, he decided, had given him one good tip which he would follow at once.
They have been seen so far as the eighty-fourth degree of latitude ” “And who knows,” said I, “perhaps beyond that, by Arthur Pym.” “Perhaps, Mr. Jeorling. It is true that we have not to trouble ourselves about Arthur Pym, since he, at least, and Dirk Peters also, returned to America.” “But supposing he did not return?”
I had brought up with me from below a repeating rifle, so I handed him one of my revolvers and an Italian dirk that had been hanging on the wall as an ornament. The second door I ordered locked. Putting my head out of one of the windows I counted the enemy as they stood grouped near the stairway from the main deck. Bothwell was in the lead, followed by Caine.
Glossin, thus reduced to inactivity, stole one glance at Dirk Hatteraick, but could read nothing in his dark scowl save malignity and hatred to all around. "But, gentlemen," said Glossin, "is it right to keep his poor man so heavily ironed, when he is taken up merely for examination?" This was hoisting a kind of friendly signal to the prisoner.
"Have no fear," said Foy. "We will die before we betray." "We will try to die before we betray," grumbled Martin in his deep voice, "but flesh is frail and God knows." "Oh! I have no doubt of you, honest man," said Dirk with a smile, "for you have no mother and father to think of in this matter."
Come with me to my office.” The youngster followed him, and received the address of a sword cutler. “And tell him,” said Sir Isaac, “from me that you are to have a dirk. But,” added he, “I had better write my name; he will then know I sent you.” Next morning the mid lost no time in repairing to the shop of the vendor of slaying instruments. He produced the rear-admiral’s paper.
Word Of The Day