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A chasm opened at the stroke, and the devil skipped across to the safe side of it. Safe? No; for the fiend men in advance took the leap and came beside him. The tormented one could thrash any two of them at once, but he was not equal to a thousand. He brandished his weapon once more and it fell with a crash.
"Well, looks can't tell fibs," said she, provokingly. "Oh, Elsie, be good to me now; just think; I shall be gone a whole week!" "It's a calamity I dare not contemplate," replied she. "Now, whatever you do, don't break your neck in those horrid coal mines, or come back smelling of brimstone like a theatrical fiend." "I believe you would jest during an earthquake."
In point of fact, the warmth, dryness and healthfulness of a forest camp are mainly dependent on the way the fire is managed and kept up. No asthmatic or consumptive patient ever regained health by dwelling in a close, damp tent. I once camped for a week in a wall tent, with a Philadelphia party, and in cold weather. We had a little sheet iron fiend, called a camp-stove.
Different as an angel of light is from the fiend of the pit was Rees Pritchard from that moment from what he had been in former days.
The deep sandbank of Carsethorn was expected to arrest the career of these desperate navigators; but they passed, with the celerity of waterfowl, over an obstruction which had wrecked many pretty ships. "Old men shook their heads and departed, saying, 'We have seen the fiend sailing in a bottomless ship; let us go home and pray': but one young and wilful man said, 'Fiend!
But the vehement and awful passion which belongs to manhood when thoroughly unmanned this was the first time in which the relief of that stormy bitterness was known to him! "Musing full sadly in his sullen mind." "There forth issued from under the altar-smoke A dreadful fiend." Ibid. on Superstition.
George found it every day more and more necessary to adhere to this system of seclusion; for it was not alone the hisses of the boys and populace that pursued him a fiend of more malignant aspect was ever at his elbow, in the form of his brother.
Wait, you villain there, perhaps that will settle you," and he flung his second sandal. Then, without heeding the rustling fall of some object that he had hit by accident, he gasped out: "The impudent fiend will not let me be.
For rescue, however, he left behind him his hand in pledge, arm and shoulder; nor aught of help could the cursed one thus procure at all. None the longer liveth he, loathsome fiend, sunk in his sins, but sorrow holds him tightly grasped in gripe of anguish, in baleful bonds, where bide he must, evil outlaw, such awful doom as the Mighty Maker shall mete him out."
"What the foul fiend can that mean at this time of night?" exclaimed Old Hurricane, dropping his nightcap and turning sharply around toward Wool, who, warming-pan in hand, stood staring with astonishment. "What does that mean, I ask you?" "'Deed, I dunno, sar, less it's some benighted traveler in search o' shelter outen de storm!"
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