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The shadows of the woods were formidable. He was certain that in this vista there lurked fierce-eyed hosts. The swift thought came to him that the generals did not know what they were about. It was all a trap. Suddenly those close forests would bristle with rifle barrels. Ironlike brigades would appear in the rear. They were all going to be sacrificed. The generals were stupids.
"And he ... what does ...?" She could get out nothing more. "He agrees. Mevrouw Vrynks" "Dutch for Wrynche," thought Lady Hannah dizzily "you will now pay the Mevrouw Kink what is owing for her amiable entertainment, and you will start for Gueldersdorp in ten minutes' time." The roaring voice of the stern, fierce-eyed man, sounded lovelier than the swan-song of De Rezke.
At sight of Mannie, Leon Kantor, the tears still wetly and dirtily down his cheeks, left off his black, fierce-eyed stare of waiting long enough to smile, darkly, it is true, but sweetly. "Giddy-ap!" he cried. "Giddy-ap!" And then Mannie, true to habit, would scamper and scamper. Up out of the traplike stair-opening came the head of Mrs.
"Ah!" he exclaimed, fierce-eyed of a sudden and pointing with rigid finger, "whence cometh that smoke, think ye?" "Why," quoth Roger, frowning, "Wendonmere village lieth yonder!" "Nay, 'tis nearer than Wendonmere," said Walkyn, shouldering his axe. "See, the smoke thickens!" cried Beltane. "Now, God forgive me! the while I tarry here Red Pertolepe is busy, meseemeth!"
Now Beltane, perceiving only this last gesture, sprang up, fierce-eyed: "How?" quoth he, "am I then become a thing so base my presence doth offend thee then, as God liveth, ne'er shalt see me more until thou thyself do summon me!"
They were out on Bear Hill the whole day, beating up the bushes as if for game, scaring old crows out of their ragged nests, and in one dark glen startling a fierce-eyed, growling, bobtailed catamount, who sat spitting and looking all ready to spring at them, on the tall tree where he clung with his claws unsheathed, until a young fellow came up with a gun and shot him dead.
Its railed platform, commanding a view of the civic celebration, had its quota of onlookers a fierce-eyed old man with huge mustaches, an athletic young clergyman, two Bisques, and a goddess. "Climb up, Misteh Winton, and you, Misteh Adams; climb up and join us," said the fierce-eyed one heartily. "Virginia, heah, thinks we ought to call one anotheh out, but I tell her "
Suddenly she started to an elbow, dashing away her tears, fierce-eyed, grim-lipped, all womanly tenderness gone, as from the deck above rose the hoarse roar of a speaking trumpet and the running of feet; and now was loud rapping on the door that, opening, disclosed Diccon, the quartermaster. "By your leave, Captain Jo," cried he, "but your luck's wi' us aye, is it!
Proceed, I charge thee!" and the fierce-eyed lawyer sat dilated and erect in his chair, glaring upon her like a serpent rearing its crest from amidst its coils, as he waited for an answer. "I cannot, I know no further," she said at length with meek doggedness. "What say you?" exclaimed the advocate, almost screaming with astonishment. "I know no further; I know nothing," she replied.
Here sat and stood more people, fierce-eyed, turbaned men, who wore great knives in their girdles. These, as they learned afterwards, were called the fedai, the sworn assassins, who lived but to do the command of their lord the great Assassin. At the end of this chancel were more curtains, beyond which was a guarded door.
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