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Selwyn placed some new lumps of coal on the fire, the flames licking them eagerly as the sharp crackle of escaping gases punctured the sleep-laden air. 'It does sound rather like whining to say it, said Durwent without opening his eyes, 'but after I was rusticated at Cambridge I tried to travel straight.
For a couple of months, indeed, it seemed that another golden age of the noble art was approaching, and that the rejuvenation of boxing would occur, beginning at Carnation Hall, Lambeth. Then the thing collapsed like a punctured tyre. At first, of course, they fought a little shy.
No less swift than the hatchet stroke was the limp placidity into which Borckman's body melted to the deck. He did not reel or pitch. He melted, as a sack of wind suddenly emptied, as a bladder of air suddenly punctured. The bottle fell from his dead hand upon the yams without breaking, although the remnant of its contents gurgled gently out upon the deck.
Perhaps a favorite father, brother, or sister; perhaps a governor of the tribe, who perished during siege and could not be taken out to the common burial ground. Picture to yourself a precipice face from 300 to 700 feet high, literally punctured with tiny porthole windows and doll house open cave doors. It is sunset.
Ah-h! the way I made the dollars fly! Before I graduated I was the acknowledged leader. What's more, I led my class, too when I chose." "When you chose!" she echoed. "And now what are you going to do?" The question punctured his reminiscent elation. He sagged down in his saddle. "I don't know," he answered despondently. "Mon Dieu! To come down to this a common laborer for wages after that!
Gabriel heard the zip-zip-zip of bullets; heard a ripping tear, as one of his canvas wings was punctured God help him, had that explosive bullet struck a wire or a stay! Then, maddened to despair; and burning with fierce rage against this monster of the upper air that now was hurling death at him, he once more "banked," brought his machine sharp round, and charged, full drive, at the attacker!
His secret uncovered, that essential incognito of his punctured, his vanity touched to the quick all that laboriously constructed edifice of art and chicane which yesterday had seemed so substantial, so impregnable a wall between the Lone Wolf and the World, to-day rent, torn asunder, and cast down in ruins about his feet Lanyard wasted time neither in profitless lamentation or any other sort of repining.
Is again strangely distended; I advised, or rather solicited, that it might be destroyed; but this not being granted, I once more tapped him. At least a gallon of dark-coloured fluid was evacuated. 22d. Again rapidly filling, but not losing either flesh or strength. July 4th. Once more punctured, and a gallon of dark-coloured fluid evacuated. 12th.
The pressure on the flesh between the ends of the ring causes its absorption, and a hole is the result. Children may be seen with the ring on the lip, but not yet punctured. The tin they purchase from the Portuguese, and, although silver is reported to have been found in former times in this district, no one could distinguish it from tin.
The foils, however, were not always covered: there had been some fatalities from duelling in the sala de Armas since Charles Abbott had been in Havana; a Cuban gentleman past sixty had been slain by a subaltern of seventeen; two officers, quarreling over a crillo girl, had sustained punctured lungs, from which one had bled to death.
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