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I don't believe he would have smashed up now as he calls it if his nerves hadn't been strained about to the limit by taking all the responsibility for Granny at the end. It was terrible for the poor lad." "It was terrible for you too, Phil. Larry isn't the only one who has suffered. I do wish those foolish youngsters could have waited a little and not thrown a new anxiety on you just now.
The person who smashed your house is Frank Jordan, and I can prove it. Then he told me the rest." "And what did you say?" cried the astonished Frank. "Well, feeling pretty perk over a discovery I had just made, I listened to the crafty old varmint." "And what did he say?" "He told me that you had stolen a diamond bracelet from Mace, the jeweler."
"You mean that the woman inflicted the wound upon herself in order " "To save old Kwen Lung exactly! It's marvellous." "Good heavens!" I exclaimed. "And the window?" "Oh! it was broken right enough by two drunken sailormen fighting in the court outside! Sash and everything smashed to splinters." He began irritably to pace the carpet again.
She stranded half-a-mile further down, on a rock, where she lies to this hour, with a wheel smashed and the bottom out, and about three thousand tons o' water swashin' right through her every hour; but all the provisions and the mule went slap down the Sacramento; an', if they haven't bin' picked up on the way, they're cruisin' off the port o' San Francisco by this time."
That splendid officer, gentleman and hero did not signal his fleet as Nelson at Trafalgar, that every man was expected to do his duty, but he reported that every man did his duty; and the East Indian fleet of Spain vanished, smashed, burned and sunken by a thunderbolt!
"You have been on the ground then?" he asked. "Ah, yes, with prospectors. But," with a shrug of the shoulders, "we were not so lucky as you." "The interview for the afternoon is of course off," he said, rising heavily and stretching out his hand for his hat. "I suppose so," conceded Ydo. She smiled and sighed. "The pretty little coup I had planned is smashed.
He exploded into a room, firing rapidly, and an electronics engineer froze in a startled pose in front of his worktable. The big cadet gleefully swung a heavy chair across the table of delicate electronic instruments, and smashed shelves of vital parts, pausing only long enough to see if he had left anything unbroken. He rushed out into the hall again.
"Not much longer and the goal will be attained; the many-sided attack has been smashed and the war carried into enemy lands. Shining glory has been won by Germany's armies. The passionate élan of our soldiers, their death-despising bravery and one-minded strength, have gained victory after victory. "Revenge begins to glow against the originator of the world-conflagration against false England!
I pounded, smashed; broke the shell of its distended body ... noisome ... the revulsion, the nausea of it all but overcame me. At last the thing lay still; and from the wet, sticky foulness of it I rose and stood shuddering.
There was little furniture in the room, but what there was they smashed in pieces. Quintal flung McCoy on the table, and jumping on the top of him, broke it down. The other managed to get on his legs again, clutched Quintal by the throat, and thrust him backward with such violence that he went crashing against the little window-shutters, split them up, and drove them out.
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