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He did very well when it came to the scratch." "Have you seen Dr. Brownlow? He has been to see Clement." "That's first-rate! Where shall I find him?" "Somewhere about, according to your lucid direction, I suppose." "What does he think of old Tina?"

My forehead was swathed in bandages, like a turbaned Turk's. Oh, to be sure, in the castle at Prezelay, as we were retreating up the staircase, Schwartzmann had fired at me; but, then, hadn't that been a pin prick, the merest scratch? The name Prezelay served as a key to solve the puzzle.

He might have saved the labour, as the horse wheeled on one foot, and pulled fairly for the picket fence opposite. Red regretted the absence of herders as the sharp pickets loomed near. It was no time for regrets. The horse was over with but little damage a slight scratch, enough to rouse his temper, however, for he whaled away with both hind feet, and parts of the fence landed a hundred feet off.

'A black spider monkey, he said, slowly. 'Allow me to ask, madam, if you are acquainted with the character of the beast? 'It doesn't scratch, does it? said she, quickly. 'That is for you to answer. 'I never knew it do so. It does chatter a great deal, but it never scratched that I knew of. 'Nor I, said the showman, 'since it was young. Do you think age renders it graver and steadier?

No man could run as you ran down into this village. And I saw that body you're wearing when you weren't in it! I followed you up the cliff when " Coburn's voice was ragingly sarcastic "when you were taking pictures!" Dillon's face went impassive. Then he said: "Well?" "Will you let me scratch your finger?" demanded Coburn almost hysterically.

He looked upon the whole of this funereal realm as his own property, and treated with scant courtesy the little subaltern jackals who ventured to scratch in the tombs.

The pig lay down in the running mud, and pussy, having leapt on to him, began to scratch his back, bite his ears, stroke his sides. Suddenly, porker was uppermost and the cat, pretending to struggle for life, under his forefeet. It was the only amusing incident I met with at Squillace, and the sole instance of anything like cheerful vitality.

The boy knew at once that some accident had happened, and unmindful of the severe scratch he had received, he instantly clambered to his feet, and began examining the machinery, first taking the precaution to give vent to the surplus steam, which was rapidly gathering.

He promised he would get her flowers from the green house during the winter. The butcher was paid, the baker was paid; the druggist was paid, and so was the rent. Philippina shook her head, and swore there was something wrong. She was convinced that it would all come out some day, even if you had to scratch the dung hill to get at the secret.

With a cutlass or a heavy stick he would have attacked the whole tribe single-handed, and have fought till his brains were knocked out; but when he thought of the small arrows that would pour upon him in hundreds if he made a dash for the woods, and the certain death that would follow the slightest scratch, he discarded all idea of rebellion.