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When the whole of the detachment had come up we marched on to the attack, scrambled over the trees, and with great difficulty got the mortar over. The first onset was not attended with success, and our men were dropping fast, not being able to advance on account of the ranjaus, which almost pinned their feet to the ground.
Then he pinned the top of one stocking securely over the stuffed foot of another, pinning the top of a third to the foot of the second, the top of a fourth to the foot of the third and continued operations in this fashion until the twelve stockings were the semblance of one long and sinuous black body, sufficiently suggestive to any normal eye.
She tried to laugh, but the laugh stuck in her throat, caught and pinned there by the terror that gripped her. "Yes, I've said that. I've said it because I wanted to think it," he returned remorselessly, "not because I really thought it." Diane dragged herself up on to her elbow. "I don't understand. You've not changed?" Then, as he made no answer: "Hugh, you're frightening me! What do you mean?
Valmai flitted about, putting the finishing touches to her uncle's gorgeous toilet. "Do Ay look all raight, may dear?" "Oh, splendid, uncle, only I would like you better in your plain white night shirt and my little gray shawl pinned over you." "Oh, go 'long! with your shawls and your pins!
Mary Louise deliberately tucked in one last recalcitrant wisp and pinned it down, and then turned to him. "Pretty well." Her gaze was level and critical. "Aunt Sue better?" She nodded. Then she turned and slowly walked within the inclosure of the summerhouse and sat down. He followed her and stood framed in the doorway. "What's the gloom?" he asked directly, after a moment of silence.
Cecil passed on and reached the outer limit of the camp. There, amid some large bowlders, he almost stumbled on a band of Indians engaged in some grisly ceremony. He saw them, however, in time to escape observation and screen himself behind one of the rocks. One of the Indians held a rattlesnake pinned to the ground with a forked stick.
The green square of paper pinned round the lamp cast down a tender shade. On the dresser was a plate of sausages and white pudding and on the shelf there were eggs. They would be for the breakfast in the morning after the communion in the college chapel. White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea. How simple and beautiful was life after all! And life lay all before him.
When used in service the sheet is to be stretched on a rope supported by two poles, or by two rifles, muskets, or carbines, and pinned down at the sides with six pins, three on each side.
That his country may endure, that she may continue to enjoy and teach liberty, he has seen his arm or his leg, or both, blown off, or cut off. But when on the boulevards you meet him walking with crutches or with an empty sleeve pinned beneath his Cross of War, and he thinks your glance is one of pity, he resents it. He holds his head more stiffly erect.
A dreadful feeling of horror crept over my heart, as the thought flashed upon me that they were going to burn their enemies. As they bore him to the fire my feelings almost overpowered me. I gasped for breath, and seizing my club, endeavoured to spring to my feet; but Jack's powerful arm pinned me to the earth.
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