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A detachment of two hundred Louisiana volunteers under command of Captain Thistle, an expert marksman, was detailed for the erection of a blockhouse near the river, while others were engaged in preparing canoes and rafts. Everything was quiet until ten o'clock, when a fire was opened by the Indians on the working parties and on three sides of the camp.
Abbot to explain a wrong I had done him, and avert, if possible, the consequences. I left without permission, and rode back, but found all the roads picketed, and I was compelled to hide with a farmer near Boonsboro' until Rix reached me. He had been my clerk, and was an expert penman.
It is true that many of them were expert fighters both with ax and with sword, but they were unused to carry heavy armor, and a half-armed man would have short shrift in such a hand-to-hand struggle as lay before them.
Chance, or perhaps his own resolve, had kept them apart since his hasty withdrawal from Bellomont; but Miss Bart was an expert in making the most of the unexpected, and the distasteful incidents of the last few minutes the revelation to Selden of precisely that part of her life which she most wished him to ignore increased her longing for shelter, for escape from such humiliating contingencies.
Melville is a man connected with china works, and as such, in a measure, an expert. 'Is Mr. Melville a friend of yours? 'No, he is not. I never saw him until he came to the meeting. 'Do you know, she said, lowering her voice and bending towards him, 'that I do not like Mr.
The commentary on this was so indefinite that she was moved to inquire: "Is that a local dialect you're speaking?" "No; that was a grunt." "I don't think it was a very polite grunt, even as grunts go." "Perhaps not. I'm afraid I'm out of the habit." "Of grunting? You seem expert enough to satisfy " "No; of being polite. I'll apologize if if you'll only go on talking." She laughed aloud.
Ancrum smiled at the confidential eagerness of the expert 'you know, sir, it's not many of those Venice or Florence Dantes that are worth anything. If you get the first edition of Landino's 'Commentary, or the other man's, Imola's, isn't it The minister lifted his eyebrows the Italian came out pat, and, so far as he knew, right 'Well, of course, they're worth money always fetch their price.
But if you are expert in reading faces, and decide that the bride probably has conscientious scruples against the habit, and you reply "No," Jack is likely to say, "Sorry, but Alice allows me one cigar a day after dinner," and you are left to suffer the torments of the lost, and have lied into the bargain.
Then with a wriggle black was loose and had closed again. Inspired by the best traditions of chivalry Benham came to her assistance. He was not expert with dogs. He grasped the black dog under its ear. He was bitten in the wrist, rather in excitement than malice, and with a certain excess of zeal he was strangling the brute before you could count ten.
Gentlemen and ladies who never before cared much for "drinking" have now given up almost all other amusements in favor of this fascinating sport; young men and debutantes have become, in the last few years, fully as expert in the game as their parents.
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