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Now rather curious to consider, at this distance of time. Miraculous Anecdotes, true and not true, are many. Not to mention again that surprising offer of the first fire to us, what shall we say of the 'two camp-sutlers whom I noticed, English females of the lowest degree; 'one of whom was busy slitting the gold-lace from a dead Officer, when a cannon-ball came whistling, and shore her head away.
I lived in such an atmosphere of violence and cruelty I heard of nothing but slitting noses, putting out eyes, and chopping men in two that I am persuaded I could almost have impaled my own father. The chief executioner was a tall and bony man, extremely ferocious.
Huck looked into the old man's honest eyes a moment, then bent over and whispered in his ear: "'Tain't a Spaniard it's Injun Joe!" The Welshman almost jumped out of his chair. In a moment he said: "It's all plain enough, now. When you talked about notching ears and slitting noses I judged that that was your own embellishment, because white men don't take that sort of revenge. But an Injun!
A vitality is created which makes him bound and dart like a youth of his species. In due time, though, senility returns. It is as if a storage battery, recharged, runs down and becomes dead again. Slitting the genital duct of the other testis, causing its interstitial cells to hypertrophy and multiply, repeats the effects of the first experiment.
Uncle William's telescope fixed the boat and held it. His throat hummed, holding a kind of conversation with itself. The man had returned to his fish, slitting in rough haste and tossing to one side. "Fool to go out I told him it was coming." The telescope descended. Uncle William regarded him mildly. "I o't to 'a' kept an eye on him," he said humbly.
"So they can; and men can be hanged for slitting them," returned Sir Lewis, and thereafter resumed and elaborated his first argument, using now such forceful logic and obvious sincerity that Sir Walter was convinced. He was no less convinced, too, of the peril in which he stood. He plied those wits of his, which had rarely failed him in an extremity. Manourie was the difficulty.
One of these a workman suddenly caught at, and with a grunt, held up before the padre. The head was blunt. About the shaft, wound tightly with silk thread, ran a thin roll of Chinese paper. Dr. Earle nodded, took the arrow, and slitting with a pocket-knife, freed and flattened out a painted scroll of complex characters. His keen old eyes ran down the columns.
For five long weeks he tried each evening, the Rajput never doing anything but parry, changing his sabre often to the other hand and grinning at the schoolboy swordsmanship until one evening, at the end of a more than usually hard-fought bout, the youngster pricked him, lunged, and missed slitting his jugular by the merest fraction of an inch.
If he caught one, he contented himself with slitting its ear; this was his seal, the mark by which he recognized his free flock. During the last years of his abode in the island, he had killed or marked thus nearly five hundred. In the natural course of things, as his physical powers increased, his intelligence became enfeebled.
Myself, I'm for slitting the young pup's ears but later on, later on. And though I'd like to straighten out the record as far as it goes Well, as you say." For all of Captain Falk's bluster and pretension, I was becoming more and more aware that the subtle Kipping could twist him around his little finger, and that for some end of his own Kipping did not wish affairs to come yet to a head.
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