United States or Morocco ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"As for myself, I walk abroad o' nights, And kill sick people groaning under walls; Sometimes I go about and poison wells; And now and then, to cherish Christian thieves, I am content to lose some of my crowns, That I may, walking in my gallery, See 'm go pinioned along by my door.
"I never found myself in such a gehenna," he says, "as during this time, for the pain which I suffered in consequence of the wound in my knee was nothing in comparison with that which I endured while I was carried, bound and pinioned, on the back of one of the savages." The retreat was very long, and on October 18th they arrived at the shore of Lake Ontario.
Suddenly he wrenched off his cap and flung it down, and proceeded to tear off his coat, preparatory to leaping into the river to the rescue, when his arms were pinioned to his sides by the powerful grip of Massan. "Come, Bryan," said he, "you know very well that you can't swim; you'd only make things worse." "Och! murder! he can't swim neither. Let me go, ye black villain.
"When I couldn't find you I gave it to the lady. She promised to tell you." "Tom," said Alton slowly, "you are worse than a drunken hog, you are " A man stepped in front of him before the word was spoken, while another pinioned the culprit's arm. "We've no use for that kind of talk and the fuss that follows it," said the first one.
These, we discovered afterwards, were the men who had been slain in the battle of the previous day, and were now on their way to be first presented to the gods, and then eaten. Behind these came two men leading between them a third, whose hands were pinioned behind his back.
I believe we allow that birds are very highly organized creatures, next to man, they say. We, with our weary feet plodding always on the earth, our heavy arms pinioned close to our sides! look at this live creature, with thinnest wing cutting the fine air! We, slow in word, slow in thought! look at this quivering flame, kindled by some more passionate glance of Nature! Next to man?
The plunge upset the robber, and as the pony swept over him he got a vicious blow from one hoof. Will wheeled for a revolver duel, but the foe was prostrate, stunned, and bleeding at the head. Will disarmed the fellow, and pinioned his arms behind him, and then tied up his broken head. Will surmised that the prisoner must have a horse hidden hard by, and a bit of a search disclosed it.
Where everything was strange and dreamlike, the oddest thing of all was to see Calcraft take the pinioned fin-like hand of the prisoner and shake it when he had drawn the white cap over the face and arranged the rope. He came creaking in new boots down the sticky steps of the gallows, pulled a rope to free a support which ran on a single wheel in an iron groove, and the man was dead in a second.
Silvey yielded to temptation and gave him a shove into the heaped snow, to have him rise angrily and dig the half-thawed slush from between his neck and collar. Then he sprang at his partner and they went sprawling again, but this time, Bill was the underdog. The two boys struggled for a while until John sat heavily on his foe's stomach, and pinioned the resistant arms with his knees.
The captain gathered up the money, notified Matchin that he and his family would be wanted as witnesses in the morning, and they all moved toward the door. Sam turned to say "Farewell." Pinioned as he was, he could not shake hands, and his voice faltered as he took leave of them.
Word Of The Day