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With such opportunity for observation it would have been no great trick for an American gunner to drop a shell down the smokestack of a vessel. As soon as the ships sheered off after the first fire, the Spanish gunners lost the range and their practice became ludicrous.
Be not wroth very sore, O LORD, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people. Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
'I've got a little trifle here, now, said Mr Slum, taking off his hat which was full of scraps of paper, 'a little trifle here, thrown off in the heat of the moment, which I should say was exactly the thing you wanted to set this place on fire with. It's an acrostic the name at this moment is Warren, and the idea's a convertible one, and a positive inspiration for Jarley. Have the acrostic.
Doomed to be burned after the capture of Sardis, his capital, he was heard, just when the fire was to be kindled, to say something about Solon.
The stockade adjoining had shared the same fate, and had it not been for the earthworks constructed during the night the rear of the defences would have been completely open to direct rifle fire.
Her eyes flashed fire. "If it is wrong to love a traitor, let it be so. I cannot help loving John Dacre, and I should like to die with him." Richard Lincoln gazed at her in amazement. There was pride, too, in his glance.
Through field-glasses I was able to see their black crosses, and I fingered my machine-gun expectantly. The strangers dived in two lots of three. I waited until the first three were within 300 yards' range and opened fire. One of them swerved away, but the other two passed right under us. Something sang to the right, and I found that part of a landing-wire was dangling helplessly from its socket.
In twenty years he burned down more than a hundred thousand hamlets, market towns, unwalled towns, villages, walled towns, cities, and universities. He set fire impartially to his enemies' territory and to his own domains. And he used to explain his conduct by saying: "War without fire is like tripe without mustard: it is an insipid thing." His justice was rigorous.
Ford's dip was softer now, as though he feared to disturb that vibrant drowsiness; but when, later, capes and coves began to define themselves through the gray gloaming, and, later still, a shimmer of saffron appeared above the eastern summits, he knew it was time to think of a refuge from the daylight. The saffron became fire; the fire lit up a heaven of chrysoprase and rose.
Then, as nothing stirred, I went off with rapid strides." "What time was it?" asked M. Magloire. "I could not tell you precisely. My state of mind was such, that I had lost all idea of time. I went back through the forest of Rochepommier." "And you saw nothing?" "No." "Heard nothing?" "Nothing." "Still, from your statement, you could not have been far from Valpinson when the fire broke out."
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