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Had the battle been of a few seconds' longer duration the outcome might have been different, but it was all accomplished so quickly that the lion had scarce time to recover from the confusion of its surprise ere it sank lifeless to the ground.
Traffic of every kind was swerving to right or left or stopping, for down the long road was coming the unmistakable roar announcing the fire-engine, which in a few seconds went by like a brazen thunderbolt.
She made way for Kieff, though not consciously at his behest, and there followed a dreadful struggling upon which she could not look. Kieff spoke once or twice briefly, authoritatively, and was answered by a sound more anguished than any words. Then at the end of several unspeakable seconds she heard Burke's footstep outside the door.
I suppose it was only about fifteen seconds before you answered, but it seemed like ten minutes. I thought you were going to refuse. How Gertie would have gloated!" "I was thinking." "I see. Counting up my good points and balancing them against my bad ones." "N-o-o-o: I was thinking you wouldn't have asked me like that if you hadn't of despised me."
June 29. South latitude 35 degrees 31 minutes; east longitude 22 degrees 20 minutes 30 seconds. The specimens caught were a minute fish, 0.35 inch in length; colour, back and upper half of sides, deep indigo; belly and lower half of sides, silver colour.
In the few seconds of silence that followed, his breath came quickly again and he was even paler than before. "You came to me to say THAT?" asked Betty. "Yes to say it before you drove me to other things." Her gaze was for a moment even slightly wondering. He presented the curious picture of a cynical man of the world, for the time being ruled and impelled only by the most primitive instincts.
On Diamond Gully the wash was so shallow that the police had no difficulty in getting the men to the surface, and the inrush of the troopers was the signal for a swarming The men poured from the crowded claims, and in a few seconds the gully was awakened to violent action, and given over to tumult. The air resounded with the yells of the miners, raised in warning and derision. 'Jo! Jo!
In a few seconds we had passed through the volumes of smoke, and luffed up under her stern: we poured in our whole broadside. "Let her go off again flatten in there forward. Reedy about," was the next order given.
The stranger was much smaller than the porcupine, and wore no panoply of points. But it had the same tranquil air of owning the earth. The moonlight, shining full upon it, showed its pointed nose, and two broad, white stripes running down the black fur of its back. The stranger reached the opening in the fence about three seconds ahead of the porcupine.
Yes; we hit him on his skull, and the blows sounded as though his head was encased in five-inch Harveyized armour plate! If we had waited five seconds longer, we should have had a good view of him and been able to shoot him through the heart if he happens to possess such an organ." "That's all very fine," retorted Dick.
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