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At the moment she looked the man had swung a rope, and she saw the loop fall true over the head of a cow the man had selected, saw the pony pivot and drag the cow prone. Then the man dismounted, ran swiftly to the side of the fallen cow, and busied himself about her hind legs. "What is he doing?" she asked, a sudden excitement shining in her eyes. "He's hog-tieing her now," returned Ferguson.
But I did not like this violent way of doing things, and I told the midshipman so. He merely ordered his blue-frocks to take me away. Then I attempted to burst my bonds, and bit, kicked, and struggled, so that it took half-a-dozen men to drag me to the door.
"I don't think there is much chance of their storming the work, Wilson; but if they do, you catch hold of Bathurst's arm, and drag him away when you hear me whistle; the chances are a hundred to one against his hearing it, or remembering what it means if he does hear it." "All right, Major, I will look to him."
Why, you've only to look at his record. When the Venezuelan message came out he attacked the President and declared he was trying to make political capital and to drag us into war, and that what we wanted was arbitration; but when the President brought out the Arbitration Treaty he attacked that too in the Senate and destroyed it. Why?
My bullet had entered in the centre of his chest and passed out on the right side of the spine about half way down the back. "The pain of my wound kept me from fainting, and as soon as I got my breath I managed to drag myself from under him.
But in the universal uproar only a few had heard his words, and the hot-blooded tailor was so rash as to lay his hand on the praetor's girdle in order to drag him away from the door with the help of his comrades. But he paid dearly for his temerity for the praetor's fist fell so heavily on his forehead that he dropped as if struck by lightning.
He would drag hope down from the sky above the sky of lightnings. He spoke. "There were duties now to be taken up. I could not stay away all nor most nor much of the time. I saw that. But I could study here, and once in a while run somewhere over the earth.... But now I would stay in this dale till I die!
From his waist down he could feel nothing, not even the crawling of the gigantic insect, but the rest of his body was a single throbbing pain, a pain so intense that it seemed to drag him back from the gulf of darkness into which he was drifting. "Can you hear?" asked a voice from out the hum of sound, speaking in the clear, high tone one uses to a deaf man.
But when, after innumerable hesitations and a bodily shrinking that was little short of torment, I managed to drag myself into the room and light a match which I found on a farther mantel-shelf, I saw enough in the general appearance of the rooms and of the figure at my feet to make me doubt the truth of both these suppositions.
You will be discovered here, when every person in the house will be murdered; or you will venture into the street and be clubbed to death in less than five minutes." "I do not wish to drag you into danger." "There is no danger to me," he answered rather brusquely, "unless you are obstinate." "Then I will go with you."
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