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You may imagine, if you can, how Queen Metanira shrieked, thinking nothing less than that her dear child would be burned to a cinder. She burst forth from her hiding-place, and running to the hearth, raked open the fire, and snatched up poor little Prince Demophoon out of his bed of live coals, one of which he was gripping in each of his fists.
Still her crew, getting their quarterdeck guns trained aft, fought on; but what were they to the "Blanche's" heavy guns, which mercilessly raked her, the shot entering her bow and tearing up her deck fore and aft, sweeping away numbers of her crew at each discharge.
"If I do I'll get all raked up. You know what it means if I get all raked up " "Oh, don't always be threatening me with that," she cried hotly. "You know I'm doing my best, Louis. But I tell you I wouldn't be a slave to anything like cigarettes. I do believe St. Paul when he says, 'If thy right hand offend thee cut it off. I would if my right hand dared to boss me."
After a time they came to an outcrop of the sort described, which, with some difficulty and stumbling, they succeeded in crossing. Ahead, in the darkness, showed a tiny licking little fire, only a few inches high. "The fire has jumped!" cried Bob. "No, that's their backfire," Pollock corrected him. They found this to be true. The rangers had hastily hoed and raked out a narrow path.
"You think, then," said Rotherby, "that this man has raked up this story to " "Consider what you are saying," cut in Mr. Caryll, with a flash of scorn. "Should I have come prepared with documents against such a happening as this?" "Nay, but the documents might have been intended for some other purpose had my lord lived some purpose of extortion," suggested her ladyship.
Allen told me of it this morning when he was trying to enlist me in his cause with Marian. It's hideous a perfectly rotten mess. Thatcher is preparing a poisoned arrow for Bassett. He's raked up an old scandal, an affair with a woman. It makes my blood run cold to think of its possibilities." "But Mr.
While I good Heaven! have thatched myself over with the dead fleeces of sheep, the bark of vegetables, the entrails of worms, the hides of oxen or seals, the felt of furred beasts; and walk abroad a moving Rag-screen, overheaped with shreds and tatters raked from the Charnel-house of Nature, where they would have rotted, to rot on me more slowly!
His eyes had raked the floor to recover the position of something dropped or misplaced, and something, above all, awkward or compromising; and he had wanted his companion not to command this scene from the hearth-rug, the hearthrug where he had been just before holding him, hypnotising him to blindness, because the object in question would there be most exposed to sight Mark embraced this with a further drop while the apprehension penetrated of his power to go on, and with an immense desire at the same time that his eyes should seem only to look at his friend; who broke out now, for that matter, with a fresh appeal.
And I thought, don't you know, it was well, rather hard on me to have it all raked up again like that. Now I see how very hard it was on you, dear. Your not knowing makes all the difference." "It does indeed. If I had known " "I understand. You wouldn't have married me?" "I should not." "Dear do you suppose I didn't know that?" "I know nothing."
"The old bell is welcoming us, Ida May," Captain Latham said to the girl who reclined in a canvas chair which the cook had raked out of the lazaret for her use. "I've beat my way in here when it hasn't sounded so cheerful." "I am wondering what sort of welcome I shall receive when we get to Wreckers' Head, do you call it?" she asked softly.
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