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He has been made more human by schooling, by growing more self-possessed less violent, less tumultuous; holding himself in hand, and moving always with a certain poise of spirit; not forever clapping his hand to the hilt of his sword, but preferring, rather, to play with a subtler skill upon the springs of action.
His naked knee was on the gunwale, when at the same moment my fingers discovered my knife. I clutched the handle. My enemy's knee slipped off the smooth wood his weapon missed its aim, scarcely grazing my side, and I plunged mine up to the hilt in his breast. His hand relaxed his hold of my throat, and he dropped back lifeless into the stream.
I heard him once again when he slew a French squire with his teeth, he being unarmed and the Frenchman having a dagger." "And why did Simon laugh in front of the inn-door!" asked John. "Simon is a hard and perilous man when he hath the bitter drop in him; and, by my hilt! he was born for war, for there is little sweetness or rest in him.
"The hilt, or even the point, might have been fused; but even supposing the electric fluid to have been capable of such flagrant preference, the scabbard could not have held molten metal without being itself consumed." "Aye," remarked Willis, "there are plenty of non-sensical stories of that kind in circulation, because nobody takes the trouble to test their truth.
His voice was sharp and dry as though he were shaking out his words. . . . Thus the Emperor would utter his harangues, so the martial burgher, with instinctive imitation, was contracting his left arm, supporting his hand upon the hilt of an invisible sword.
For the worshipper of Odin, it had a significant and supernatural meaning, and he repeated his former action that of drawing the knife from his girdle and kissing the hilt. "If Death is near me," he said in a loud voice, "I bid it welcome! The gods know that I am ready!" He waited as though expecting some answer but there was a brief, absolute silence.
'You'd better proceed at once with your firing party, you miserable German murderer. Von Steegman's hand dropped to his sword hilt, his face went the colour of a ripe plum, for a moment Ken thought hoped that he was going to have a fit.
But bymeby she roused up, like, and looked around wild, and then she see him, and she made a great cry and snatched him to her breast and hilt him close and kissed him over and over agin; but it took the last po' strength she had, and so her eyelids begin to close down, and her arms sort o' drooped away and then we see she was gone, po' creetur.
Even such a hero might have a good deal of trouble about it, if he did not have a sword that was just as keen and strong, just as sharp and firm and true as himself. So, that he may not want for such a good blade, the Father of the Gods has made a magic sword. No one but a god could make a sword like this, and he has driven it up to the hilt into the great tree in the robber's house.
"Look at that now!" cried the bowman in triumph. "That is just what he would have said." "I can see now that it is even so," said John, examining the parchment again. "Though I scarce understand this high, middle and low." "By my hilt! you would understand it if you were Jacques Bonhomme.
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