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You may escape the grip of the law, because the existence of such life was not known by society; but I tell you that at last God will shove down on you the avalanche of his indignation; and though you may not have wielded knife or pistol in your deeds of darkness, yet, in the day when John Wilkes Booth and Antony Probst come to judgment, you will have on your brow the brand of murderer.
She spat then a bombardment of screaming profanity that sickened Lilly as she stood unseen and flattened against the wall. A further shove sent him sprawling down the remaining stairs, and from the open doorway a flung waistcoat and coat draped him ludicrously as they struck. "Cheap skate! Piker! Skinflint!"
Could he be trifling with Jane? "Evelina," answered Polk, giving me a shake and a shove over in the direction of the Crag, "you ought to know me better than to think I would answer such a question as Jane put to me, while driving a cranky car in waning moonlight.
In another moment the timbers yielded, the thwarts sprang out or were broken across, and slowly, yet forcibly, as a strong hand might crush an egg-shell, the boat was squeezed flat against the ship's side. "Shove, lads! if it comes on we're lost," cried the captain, seizing one of the long poles with which the men were vainly straining every nerve and muscle.
Smallbones had, however, watched him carefully, and as the corporal sat in the middle thwart, with his face turned aft, catching but imperfectly the conversation of the men, the lad separated the painter with a sharp knife, and at the same time dropping his foot down, gave the bow of the boat a shove off, which made it round with the stream.
"I don't miss any," says I. "There's the mound, too. It's big enough to hold forty truckloads." "Oh, there won't be that much," says she. "A few chests, perhaps. But think, Torchy, of digging up gold that has been lying there for a hundred years or more!" "I don't care how old it is," says I, "if it's the kind you can shove in at the receivin' teller and get credit for.
"Oh no, Mr Coxswain, pray don't; shove off as soon as you please, and never mind the eighteen pence." The boat then shoved off, and pulled towards the ship, which lay at Spithead.
Then Talbot regained sufficient control to listen to the boatman. At once he calmed down. "Here, boys," said he, "ease her backward. You, Johnny, stand by at the bow and hold her head on. Frank and I will give her a shove at the stern. When the time comes, I'll yell and you pile right in, Johnny. Vamos, Manuel!"
"We are shut out," growled the wagoner, scratching his head. "Now we shall have to sleep under some haystack. I only wish we had not taken that vagabond student's bundle into the sledge, that was what made us creep along so slowly." But if Simplex had not helped to shove on the sledge they would not have got so far as this. "Pray let us go on a little further," said the clergyman.
They had kept two of the lighter spars for a mast and yard, and they picked up a royal unburnt, which would serve as a sail. Dawn broke just as they were ready to shove off from the wreck. "Where are we going?" asked Ashurst, in a faint voice. "To the nearest shore we can reach," answered Langton; "when there we must consider what next to do." "Can't you give me some water, or some fruit?
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