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That's a queer thing for a soldier. War means hurting people, and getting hurt yourself. It means taking every chance to hurt some of the enemy. I never miss any opportunity of killing a Yankee, no matter what I may be doing, or what the risk is to me. I can't help myself. Whenever I see a Yankee in range I let him have it. I never go near their lines without killing at least one."
Suddenly he was surrounded by Indians who rose, as it were, out of the ground and rushed upon him, yelling like fiends. He fired his gun, wounding two with the duck-shot, and his pistol, without hurting any one. The next moment he found himself thrown on the ground and disarmed, without a single blow. His courage had impressed the Indians so favorably that they treated him very kindly.
Out of respect for her, and for fear of hurting her, too, her companion has hitherto been spared even by those fellows up there." And he pointed to a party of "Greens" who were laying their heads together in one of the topmost tiers. But his friend replied: "Something besides that keeps them within bounds.
I suppose that, being a foreigner, he was afraid of hurting your feelings by talking too freely to you.
If there is nothing hurting the animal's mouth, he should be ridden by a groom in a standing martingale, at a length which will prevent him from getting his head too high.
Providence tied the score. The game progressed, growing more and more of a nightmare to me. It was not Worcester's day. The umpire could not see straight; the boys grumbled and fought among themselves; Spears roasted the umpire and was sent to the bench; Bogart tripped, hurting his sore ankle, and had to be taken out.
"I will decide on this pale dress, and put over it the net-work of gold thread with sapphire knots; that will go well with the head-dress. Take care with your comb, Thais, you are hurting me! Now I must not chatter any more. Zoe, give me the roll yonder; I must collect my thoughts a little before I go down to talk among men at the banquet.
I don't care about hurting him; but, I should like to cure him of his parsecuting ways." "Well, you is a good cook. What you up to dis time?" said the General, grinning at the idea of more tricks. "Colored people is celebrated for their contrivances; so, scratch your wool, and give us the benefit of your genius." "De sheep hab no gumption," said Primus, looking grave at this allusion to his hair.
"I am only finishing your sheets because I have no more of my own to do, and I can see how badly your foot is hurting you." The whole transaction was so strange and novel to Selene that she did not even understand her neighbor's meaning, and she only said, with a shrug: "You may earn all you can, for aught I can do; I cannot do anything to- day."
A wet tennis ball, thrown from the distance of a few feet, is capable of hurting considerably, and Steve, dashing the water from his face, felt very much as though he had been kicked by a mule and had difficulty in keeping the tears from his eyes. "Get it?" laughed Sawyer. "Yes, and so will you," gasped Steve. The ball lay bobbing about a yard away and he grabbed it.