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"I reckon ye kin if ye've got eyes." "Then please ask him to step out. Or shall I go in?" "Yer lookin' at Joe Shafto. If ye don't like the looks of me look t'other way!" she fairly flung at him. "You don't understand, Madam. We engaged Joe Shafto, a man, to guide us through the North Woods and "
After the king had risen from the feast, he and his fellowship went without the city to take their delight amongst the fields. The lords sought their pleasure in divers places. Some amongst them jousted together, that their horses might be proven. Others fenced with the sword, or cast the stone, or flung pebbles from a sling.
The confusion of the room promised badly for my hopes, nevertheless there was a chance that the murderers, intent only on finding the diamonds or some letters relating to their disposal, might, if they found the treaty, have hastily flung it aside, as a thing of no value.
With the spell of his vision deep upon his soul, Luck sat humiliated before his blindness. The picture he saw as he stared out across the moonlit plain was so clean-cut, so vivid, that he marvelled because he had never seen it until this night. Perhaps, if the dried little man had not talked of the old range Luck took a long breath and flung his cigar out over the platform rail.
He did not have time to finish his sentence, for quick as thought the baron caught him by the collar, lifted him from the ground with irresistible strength, and flung him on his knees at Madame d'Argeles's feet, exclaiming: "Ask her pardon, you vile wretch! Ask her pardon, or " "Or" meant the baron's clinched fist descending like a sledge-hammer on M. Wilkie's head.
Occasionally women came up the stairway and flung themselves upon the necks of the mourning nieces, who submitted to it without apparent disgust or astonishment, and sank back into the same icy calm after their visitors had "straightened their things," and retired to the reserved seats below.
It was in December 1747, just a month after his second marriage, that Fielding again flung himself into the arena of contentious journalism, 'brandishing' his pen as truculently as ever on behalf of the Protestant and Hanoverian succession, and in despite of the Jacobite cause.
One day he received a letter, written in Esthonian, but as he himself was illiterate, and as the others did not understand Esthonian, the letter remained unread; and as if not understanding that the letter might bring him tidings from his native home, he flung it into the manure with a certain savage, grim indifference.
"And yet again, it is only rumor I have heard they say this man, whoever he was, did actually run away, like a dog that had been whipped and was afraid to return to its kennel." "Pst!" Joe Delesse flung his great arms wide. "Like that he was gone. And no one ever saw him again, or heard of him again. But I know that she knew my cousin, Elise.
To belong to the chapel was, in Thrums, to be a Roman Catholic, and the boy who flung a clod of earth at the English minister who called the Sabbath Sunday or dropped a "divet" down his chimney was held to be in the right way. The only pleasant story Thrums could tell of the chapel was that its steeple once fell.
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