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The fore-staff was then set above the brigantine, and, as it is simply brailed up, there was nothing to do but bear on the rope, to haul aboard, then to secure it. But Hercules pulled so hard, along with his friend Acteon, without counting little Jack, who had joined them, that the rope broke off. All three fell backwards happily, without hurting themselves. Jack was enchanted.
There were other angry ladies who threatened Volunteers, addressing to them this petrifying query: "Would you be hurting the poor horses?" Indeed, the best people in the world live in Dublin. The lancers retreated to the bottom of Sackville Street, where they remained for some time in the centre of a crowd who were carressing their horses.
"Do you think it can be managed without hurting the poor devil? With all his loud talk he has been kind to those two old friends. Just look at them now, pretending to turn that wheel, with no rope on the windlass, and he looking on! I don't want to harm him, Featherstone." "No, nor I. But we can take him gently and swiftly and gag him. That won't hurt him, will it?"
'On the 7th of May 1812, while at Valencia, in Spain, I caught a fair- sized male Tarantula, without hurting him, and imprisoned him in a glass jar, with a paper cover in which I cut a trap-door. At the bottom of the jar I put a paper bag, to serve as his habitual residence. I placed the jar on a table in my bedroom, so as to have him under frequent observation.
He stammered again: "I didn't dream I was hurting you " Then light broke upon him. He said: "It's because you don't want to be treated like a silly girl; eh, Jack?" But to complete his astonishment she moaned: "N-n-no! It's b-b-because you you n-n-never do t-treat me like a g-g-girl, P-P-Pierre!" He groaned heartily: "Well, I'll be damned!"
A loud shout from the cedars in front told him from whom the shot came; it was my father, who had been on the look-out on the lake shore, and he had fired at and hit the wolf, when he saw that he could do so without hurting his brother." "Nurse, it would have been a sad thing if the gun had shot your uncle."
Erroll cheerfully, 'who trusted those infernal Russians with a gun? They'll be hurting somebody by and by, if they're not careful. But here's the pig, boys, and there's nobody but poor little Ahmed Bey the worse for us. I knocked him on the head from behind, and we'll be none the worse friends to-morrow.
If you don't forgive me I can't stand it," the stabbing consciousness of that impulsively flung reproach already through her like a hurting wound. "You are right, Zoe, I " "I didn't mean one word, Lilly darling, not one eeny word. It's just that all of a sudden it seemed to me to be the freest, gladdest thing in the world to cut off my hair. That's it, free!
The slightest contact or scrape caused severe anguish, and in their weak condition and crowded situation they were continually hurting one another in this manner. Not a man could move about without being followed by volleys of abuse, curses, and groans. So great was their misery that the strong oppressed the weak, shoving them aside from the dry planks to shift for themselves in the cold and wet.
There was a ring of genuine dejection in his voice and when she looked down at him, she saw that his eyes were larger and more sorrowful than she believed they could be. He was hurting himself with his own deceit. She looked away hastily, frightened at the sudden tenderness that his pathetic gaze had wakened in her. "Alas!" he went on.
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