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"I'm going to have a drink!" cried Andy, and before the boys could stop him he threw himself face downward at the edge of the black pool. "Stop! Don't drink that! It may be poison!" yelled Jack. "Pull him back!" shouted Mark, and together they advanced on the old hunter. They tried to drag him away from the black pool, but Andy shook them off.
"But the servants," I began. "The servants " "If you knew as much about housekeeping as you do about golf," she said, "you would know that servants do not know how to preserve fruit. Last year I put up more than two hundred cans, and unless I can drag Mr. Harding away from here, it will be too late for everything except pears and quinces, and he does not care much for either."
But it was ordained otherwise, and he had yet to drag a miserable course of earthly existence for more than twenty years. The period was one of great physical and mental suffering. Much of it might have been, if not prevented, at least softened and alleviated, but for the fresh interference of troublesome foes and ignorant friends.
The Indians, having discharged their missiles, fell upon the little band of Spaniards, striving to drag the riders from their horses and to tear their lances from their grasp. They brought one cavalier to the ground, who afterwards died of his wounds, and they killed two horses, cutting their necks through with one blow of their formidable broadswords.
To say truth, she had been rather a heavy drag on his triumphal car. She had been the heiress of a man who had amassed a great deal of money, not in the higher walks of commerce, but in a retail trade.
'She came to warn us that she was setting the law in motion, and that she would drag Madge's name you hear? Madge's name through the mud of the Divorce Court; and only this morning I loved you, and respected you, and believed in you. 'I must see Madge, said Paul. 'You shall not! she cried, flashing to the door, and setting her back against it.
Consider what it will be to drag on years of your life with a woman, no longer perhaps externally attractive, whom you could never possibly respect or love for her own internal qualities! Don't go and wreck your own life, and your brothers' lives, for any mistaken and Quixotic notions of false honour!
Teague had instructed us to cast, then drag the flies slowly across the surface of the water, in imitation of a swimming fly or bug. I tried this, and several times, when the leader was close to me and my rod far back, I had strikes. With my rod in that position I could not hook the trout. Then I cast my own way, letting the flies sink a little.
He reached at last the place where he had before stood, then he cautiously commenced descending still lower. "What donkeys we have been!" suddenly exclaimed Elihu; "the coil of stuff he has got won't drag any of us up, we must make a rope for ourselves." We quickly had our knives going, and soon had Bruin completely flayed, and his hide cut up into short strips joined together.
On the pampas of Paraguay, great havoc is committed among the herds of horses by the jaguars, whose strength is quite sufficient to enable them to drag off one of these animals.
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