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But after one or two had started the others followed. The young cowpuncher did not like the look of the black rushing waters. He had known one horrible moment of terror while he was crossing, that moment during which he had been afraid Powder River would be swept beyond the point of the sand spit. Now he cringed at the thought of venturing into that flood again.
As we went up the woods these awful confidences poured from her like childish prattle, interrupted only by little ripples of laughter, half shy, half silly, and altogether horrible to hear.
And that is the pick of our young manhood the sons of our aristocracy!" "Oh, that can't be!" she exclaimed. "People would know of it! "Who are 'people'? The boys in your family know of it if you could get them to tell you. My two sons studied at a State university, and they would bring me home what they heard the gossip, the slang, the horrible obscenity.
That is, the 'martinet' worse than the 'knout de Russe'; the 'poucettes', the 'crapaudine' on neck and ankles and wrists; all, all as bad as the 'Pater Noster' of the Inquisition, as Mayer said the other day in the face of Charpentier, the Commandant of the penitentiary. How pleasant also to think of the Boulevard de Guillotine! I tell you it is brutal, horrible.
It had all been so horrible too, and so undeserved worse than anything he had ever dreamed of; infinitely worse than the night he had been driven from Moorlands.
'I'll tell you what, Henry, he said, as they drove out of the courtyard, 'we'll bring out Bramshaw to watch the case. He will see through this horrible mystery, and throw the suspicion in the right quarter, whatever that may be, depend upon it. Henry had thrown himself back in the carriage with averted face, and only answered by a groan. 'Come, don't be so downcast, said Dr.
And yet I could not but admire the cool unconcern with which she faced her horrible peril. "Tell me a little more about this conference," she said, as we walked down Fetter Lane. "Your note was rather more concise than lucid; but I suppose you wrote it in a hurry." "Yes, I did. And I can't give you any details now.
Its effect was almost instantaneous. His face lost the horrible expression, his fingers straightened out, and the trembling ceased. Cummings watched him closely, and knowing that the liquor would only sustain him for a short time, he said: "Cook, where's your horse?" "Down at the livery stable on the next block." "Can you get me one at the same place?" "Yes, a good one, too."
"What a horrible fright you gave me, father! But do look at this, it's the loveliest thing in the world. I've just got to the 'very strong man Kwasind. I think he's a little like you!" Raeburn, though no very great lover of poetry, took the book and read a few lines.
When they did so, Hiawatha, took his bow and arrows, and cautiously stepping over the serpents till he came to the Prince, drew up his arrow with the full strength of his arm, and shot him in the left side. He then gave a saw-saw-quan and ran off at full speed. The sound uttered by the snakes on seeing their Prince mortally wounded, was horrible.
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