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"The odd part of the affair is that one of those Basutos called out to us that some infernal scoundrel of a white had warned Sekukuni of our coming and that he had ordered them to take our guns and cattle. This Basuto, who was wounded and praying for mercy, was drowned before he could tell me who the white man was." "A Boer, I expect," said Marnham quietly.
The little boy led him to the water, and he rushed into the sea as far as he could wade. He went there to die. Muley ran after to bring him out, and they were both drowned. I could not help them, for I was starving!" The emaciated appearance of the narrator gave strong evidence of the truth of the concluding words of his story.
Admiral Fazardo, of the Spanish royal navy, not only captured all the enemy's merchant vessels which came in his way, but hanged, drowned, and burned alive every man found on board. Admiral Haultain, of the republican navy, had just been occupied in drowning a whole regiment of Spanish soldiers, captured in English and German transports.
"Pretty wet," he said. "You said something," Westy answered him; "you took a big chance coming over." "I'd sure have been drowned if I hadn't come," he laughed; "I wonder if you fellows can sell us a shovel? Our tent is floating." I had to laugh, because that's always the one thing that most campers who aren't used to it forget about I mean digging a drain ditch outside their tent.
On the other side of the mattress she had seen her mother's kneeling body like a dwarfed thing trailed there from the floor, and her hands propped up on the edge of the eiderdown, ivory-white against the red and yellow pattern, and her darling bird's head bowed to her finger-tips. The wet eyelids had lifted and the drowned eyes had come to life again in a brief glance of horror.
In the centre of the Royal Arthur, just above the water-line, a tiny cloud of smoke was seen, and then a large column of water spurting up. At the same time a dull, loud report was heard that shook the air for a considerable distance round and drowned the thunder of the guns. It looked as if the cruiser was being torn asunder by the hands of giants. The enormous hull split in two.
It is not our purpose to tell how, with the aid of the king of Denmark, he drove the sons of Gunhild from the realm, and how, as the sagas tell, the wicked old queen was enticed to Denmark by the king, under promise of marriage, and by his orders was drowned in a swamp. Her powers of sorcery did not avail her then, if this story is true.
I knew well that you were dead." It was the sixth prelude, the one in B minor, that he played, and dreaming, as Sand writes, that "he saw himself drowned in a lake; heavy, ice cold drops of water fell at regular intervals upon his breast; and when I called his attention to those drops of water which were actually falling upon the roof, he denied having heard them.
But the sailors could not understand the words, they thought it was the voice of the storm; nor could it be theirs to see this Elysium of the deep, for when the ship sank they were drowned, and only reached the Merman's palace in death.
"'For whom wert thou praying, Marphóusha? asked the sovereign. "'For whom but for the dead! she sullenly replied. "'But for whom in particular, if I may make bold to ask? "'Ask concerning that of my child, thou son of a dog of him who was called thy brother, whom thou murderedst of Nóvgorod, which thou hast drowned in blood, and covered with ashes!
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