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There weren't three of us unwounded. The house was a wreck. Wilbur had a broken nose. "Chick" Struthers' kneecap hurt. "Lima" Bean's ribs were telescoped, and there wasn't a good shin in the house. We quit in disgust and sat around looking at Ole. He was sitting around, too. He happened to be sitting on Bangs, who was yelling for help. But we didn't feel like starting any relief expedition.
Had he not been so careful to obliterate any badge of the Squire of low degree, at his elbows, cuffs, collar, kneecap, and head-piece, she might have achieved it with better success. But Mr. Barrett was armed at all points by a consummate education and a most serviceable clothesbrush. "You know how I love this neighbourhood!" said she. "And I! above all that I have known!"
Pawing and digging, he worked his hands to the very bottom, and then, with a little grunt, he heaved out the thing he wanted the one trophy, except a stiffened kneecap and an honorable record, this old man had brought home from the South. It was a captured Confederate knapsack, flattened and flabby.
The crook caught neatly around one of Dick's ankles just as the foot was lifted. Like a flash Prescott went down. One less nimble, and having had less training, might have been in for a split kneecap. But Dick was too much master of his body and its movements. He went down to his hands, then touched lightly on his knees. Phin laughed sneeringly as Dick sprang up, unhurt.
This good sailor was not always alone in the world. A sweet girl, whom he describes as reaching to his kneecap, and pathetically believes still to be of the same height, once called him brother Jack. To hear that name again from her lips, and a particular song! he attempts it ludicrously, yet touchingly withal. Hark! Is it an echo from a spirit in the frigid air?
Had he not been so careful to obliterate any badge of the Squire of low degree, at his elbows, cuffs, collar, kneecap, and head- piece, she might have achieved it with better success. But Mr. Barrett was armed at all points by a consummate education and a most serviceable clothesbrush. "You know how I love this neighbourhood!" said she. "And I! above all that I have known!"
Shouting hoarsely, the boy followed, in what, if he had been called upon to classify it, might have seemed to him a fury of rage, but it was not. He would not have harmed the girl, for he lacked the tribal education that induces cruelty to the weaker sex. But he did not catch her; he stubbed his toe and fell, arising with a bruised kneecap which prevented further pursuit.
As Kato complied, Kennedy quickly brought his hand, held flat and palm upward, sharply against the Jap's knee just below the kneecap. There was a quick reflex jerk of the leg below the knee in response. "Quite natural," Kennedy whispered, turning to Leslie, who nodded.
Each rear-rank man aims through the interval to the right of his file leader and leans slightly forward to advance the muzzle of his piece beyond the front rank. In aiming kneeling, the left elbow rests on the left knee, point of elbow in front of kneecap. In aiming sitting, the elbows are supported by the knees.
'A thousand pardons, senor! said the soldier, and took a new grip of another limb. Concepcion, holding his man under water, heard the sharp crack of another head upon the soldier's kneecap, and knew that all was well. 'That is all? he inquired. 'That is all, replied the soldier, who did not seem at all nervous now. 'And we have killed no one.
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