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He emitted several growls and pricked up his ears in a way that left no doubt that he was angered. The lieutenant had hardly time to place himself in an attitude of defence with his Winchester, when a soft footfall was heard, and the next moment Vose Adams emerged from behind the pile of rocks and approached them.
They passed each other in the dark and Rick was pleased, until he tripped on a rock and stumbled into the pile. "We're going to have to count paces," he said ruefully as he nursed a bruised knee. "Say twenty paces up and twenty paces back." "Better make it twice that," Scotty replied. "We can't pile all the rocks in one place. We'll have to spread them out."
"No," said she; "I gave it to the girl yesterday; I haven't seen it since." "It must be upstairs, then. Let us take another look." and I hastened towards the door. "You won't find it," said Mr. Gryce at my elbow. "I have looked. There is nothing but a pile of burned paper in the corner. By the way, what could that have been?" he asked of Mrs. Belden. "I don't know, sir.
The shell, a four inch high explosive, tore a couple of sandbags out of the back window, and as it apparently had a "delay action" fuse it burst fairly in the middle of the room. There was nothing left of Captain McGregor's cot but a pile of woollen shreds. His trunk and the clothing hanging on the wall were ripped to pieces.
"We will show thee the way out," said one, "and the way out of the world," said another: "but not the way to heaven," said one chap, most unlikely to know it: and thereupon they all fell wagging, like a bed of clover leaves in the morning, at their own choice humour. "Will you pile your arms outside," I said, "and try a bit of fair play with me?"
Sally glanced at her face, and then walked forward until the log barn hid them from the house. She sat down upon a pile of straw and motioned to Agatha to take a place beside her. "Now," she observed sharply, "you can go on; it's about Gregory, I suppose."
"What do you want, Sam?" he inquired of the negro, who stood hat in hand, wiping the moisture from his face with a ragged shirt-sleeve. "Shurff, dey gwine ter hang de pris'ner w'at 's lock' up in de jail. Dey 're comin' dis a-way now. I wuz layin' down on a sack er corn down at de sto', behine a pile er flour-bairls, w'en I hearn Doc' Cain en Kunnel Wright talkin' erbout it.
On this July afternoon, the girl had been some hours mending the pile of nets at her feet; but at length they were in perfect order, and she threw her arms upward and outward to relieve their weariness, and then went to the open door.
Now, that this is not always so, you may easily see if you drop a spark of fire in a pile of shavings: the whole will be immediately in flames, and will do as much injury as if it had been kindled by a large coal. Our happiness depends quite as much on little things as on great. Small trials are as difficult to bear as any.
"That was the only thing around here of any size that would offer resistance to the sand and make it pile up. And, spaceman, look at that pile!" Astro and Roger turned to look at the spaceship. Instead of seeing the ship, they saw a small mountain of sand, well over a hundred feet high.
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