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The Germans fired one shell at us and they can't have missed very far. Fortunately, we came down before a second." "Shape your course due east, Mr. Templeton," commanded Lord Hastings at this juncture. "We'll have a try at another of them." Jack gave the command. "Twenty knots!" ordered Lord Hastings. The U-6 leaped forward beneath the water like a thing alive.
The man went up the Great Bay in a boat on to a farm which he had there; but the stones found him out, and carrying from the house to the boat a stirrup iron the iron came jingling after him through the woods as far as his house; and at last went away and was heard no more. The anchor leaped overboard several times and stopt the boat.
Over the first officer's prostrate form they sprang at the "falls" of the sternmost the longboat, a huge, bearded seaman in the lead. The captain, with fury in his eye, leaped in the way, shouting blasphemy and orders to go back, and was knocked flat with a single blow.
Then, by all the demons of Amenti! then, I say! look to thy crown, thou puny, puling King!" With a bound he broke through the cordon of royal guards, leaped into his chariot, and putting his horses to a gallop, drove at full speed to his place at the head of the army. There, in an instant, clear and long-drawn, his command to mount rang over the desert.
Mahon's open palm fell on Whiskers' rump, and in the very midst of rearing about she leaped forward into the light. Mahon rubbed his eyes. A wild laugh came to his lips. This was no pinto. No ugly blotches there only a dead brown. Whiskers? As ridiculous as his other fancies of late. But it must be Whiskers' twin sister. The Indian and his horse were gone, racing back at full speed.
Boniface, and the belief subsists even to the present day that people and animals that have leaped through these flames, or their smoke, are protected for a whole year from fevers and other diseases, as if by a kind of baptism by fire.
They wanted to punish me, and even to beat me to death with sticks; and they would have done so if the lieutenant had not bade them let me alone, for I had only done what he ordered me. The warning was not lost upon me, so without taking my leave of anybody, I leaped through an opening in the wall, and before daybreak I was in Mayrena, a place about four leagues from Seville.
Ten days, and the witchery of the West leaped in her blood and held her fast in its thralldom. A sound of scrambling behind her was immediately followed by a smothered epithet. Beatrice turned in time to see Sir Redmond pick himself up. "These grass slopes are confounded slippery, don't you know," he explained apologetically. "How did you manage that climb?" "I didn't." Beatrice smiled.
It seemed to Wogan, however, wellnigh useless to take precautions in the choice of a lodging; danger leaped at him from every quarter. For this last night he must trust to his luck; and besides there was the splash of the water falling over the mill-dam. It was always something to Wogan to fall asleep with that sound in his ears.
Torches of cedar, burning like rockets, were thrown into the air, the tom-toms pealed out their muffled notes, and from a thousand throats rolled the great wedding song, until the tepees shook, and the hills and valleys echoed with the sounds of rejoicing. They danced and chanted and feasted while the stars came out till the sky seemed crowded, while the camp-fires leaped and blazed.
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