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'Oh, come on, said the defeated team. 'If you have fluked a win, said James, 'it's nothing much. Wait till next visiting Sunday. And the teams went in to tea. In the programme which Pringle had mapped out for himself, he was to go to bed with his book at the highly respectable hour of ten, work till eleven, and then go to sleep. But programmes are notoriously subject to alterations.
"Round the south head sweeps the first boat, the second following more leisurely, for she is only a 'pickup' or relief, in case the first is 'fluked' and the crew are tossed high in air, with their boat crushed into matchwood, or meets with some other disaster.
Instantly, as it seemed, the whale drove almost perpendicularly downwards, but so great was its momentum, that its fluked tail cut the air within an oar's length of the boat as it disappeared. Whether the shout we had uttered, caused the sudden plunge to which we owed our preservation, it is impossible to decide.
Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light the star-spangled banner has fluked in the fight? What's the matter with the War Department, hey? It's a great thing to be a citizen of a gold-standard nation, ain't it? "'Rub it in, Doc, all you want, says I. 'I guess we're weak on foreign policy. "'For a Yank, says Doc, putting on his specs and talking more mild, 'you ain't so bad.
His broad, fluked tail and immense fins churned the water amazingly, and enabled him to spring this way and that in spite of all the efforts of the two long tentacles to hold him still. Nevertheless, he was slowly drawn downwards, till one of the shorter feelers reached for a hold upon him. He darted at it, and by a lucky plunge of his sword cut its snaky tip clean off.
Round the south head sweeps the first boat, the second following more leisurely, for she is only a 'pick-up' or relief, in case the first is 'fluked' and the crew are tossed high in air, with their boat crushed into matchwood, or meets with some other disaster.
By gosh, that wer a sockdolager; I guess the big varmint is kinder gettin' riled!" The whale here spouted and fluked his tail, diving down for a moment beneath the surface; but, he did not long disappear, and when he came up shortly afterwards nearer the ship, the spectators could see that the water around him was dyed with blood.
So I must be thinking of the gown I 'm to wear as bridesmaid." She laughed, and put down her cup. Susanna, trying for another cannon, fluked another pocket. "No," she said. "That would be to miss half the fun of the situation. The thing must be more dramatic. Besides, I want it to happen at Sampaolo. I want him to go to Sampaolo. And I want to tempt him and test him.
Possibly he may have fluked upon the remedy by removing O'Brien, and if the island of Ransay gives no more trouble for the rest of this war, it will certainly look as though he had. But in that case he will have been uncommon lucky, because he seems to me to have overlooked or dismissed practically everything significant. Take, for instance, the actual words used by my oilskinned friend.
His head, with several fathoms of his back, protruded above the surface, which at intervals he "fluked" with his tail, as if giving a signal to those preceding him, either to direct their onward course, or warn them of some threatened danger. He had a vicious look about him, notwithstanding his patriarchal appearance, and the ex-whalesman uttered an exclamation of warning as he approached.
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