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His face is distorted by a fierce frenzy of passion, his eyeballs glaring, his hair flying, and his hands hold with a mighty grip the two-handed sword wherewith he is hewing to pieces an enemy. I am often amazed at the difference between the pictures of Japanese heroes and the living Japanese I see.
She stepped quickly to her father's side and once more laid her hand on his arm. 'What is it? he asked, his voice sharpening at her sudden grip. 'It's it's spooky out here, she said. He scoffed. 'That's a silly word. In a natural world there is no place for the supernatural. He grew testy. 'Can I ever teach you, Helen, not to employ words utterly meaningless? But Helen was not to be shaken.
Thrice Ospakar rushed, and thrice did Eric slip away, for he would waste Blacktooth's strength. Again Ospakar rushed, roaring like a bear, and fire seemed to come from his eyes, and the steam went up from him and hung upon the frosty air like the steam of a horse. This time Eric could not get away, but was swept up into that great grip, for Ospakar had the lower hold.
He closed his eyes, blew out his breath like a sick man. His face was bloodlessly sallow, and Madden could see his grip slipping on the canvas buoy. "You're all in!" gasped Madden in exhausted staccato, "I knew you oughtn't to aren't you about to faint again?" The Englishman shook his head slightly. "Don't worry," he murmured, then his eyes closed, his hands slipped loose.
For the sake of the quotation, we agreed to assist; and, as many of us catching hold of it as could find a grip, we tugged, and tugged, and tugged. Still the stiff clay did not seem at all inclined to relinquish the prize it had so fairly won.
Drew tried only to keep on his feet and out of the other’s grip. Once down, he knew he would have no chance at all. Then he was jerked back, off balance, staggering on to bring up against the wall. He caught at the solid backing and somehow remained upright, seeing hazily through one eye. The other was puffing closed, and his lip was torn, a trickle of blood rising there to drip down his chin.
This allowed the young man free use of his right arm, which, badly swollen or not, he brought into quick action. When the renegade reached toward him Joe knocked up the hand, and, instead of striking, he grasped the hooked nose with all the powerful grip of his fingers. Girty uttered a frightful curse; he writhed with pain, but could not free himself from the vise-like clutch.
It's just what I said should be done. The work shows perfectly well what she intended, and if a chap like you explains it " Captain Rayburn limped away, laughing, his hand red with the tremendous grip his nephew had just given it. It gave him great pleasure to see the way the boy invariably stood by his sister.
After that the air gets too rarefied for them to get a solid grip. Now, these mountains look to me more like seven thousand feet high." "Then how will you get over them?" "I shall first take a cruise and see if I can find a negotiable gap, and then leap it." "What! Leap seven thousand feet?"
The applause, generous and sympathetic, as his company left the parade ground, came to him from afar off, and like a wounded animal he crept away from his comrades, not because their reproaches stung him, for he did not hear them, but because he wanted to think what his mother and "Little Sister" would say, but his misery was as nothing to that of the two who sat up there amid the ranks of the blue and white holding each other's hands with a despairing grip.
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