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Where on earth can be found so peculiar a people, guarding their individuality from the hoariest antiquity, and snatching the arts into the clefts of the mountains, to cover the languid races of the plains with luxuries borrowed from the clouds!
"At which Pedro's brother, snatching a knife which was hidden inside his clothing, struck at the Governor and wounded him in the arm, before he could be caught by the soldiers, disarmed, and bound down on the bench. "And all the time I had been learning this, the blows of the flog-man had been falling, laid on with an artistic cruelty across the other welts. "I could not bear it.
Snatching the impotent pistol and shoving it back into his coattail pocket, he strode lakeward, muttering lurid threats as he went. The Mistress watched his lank figure on its way down the lawn to the dock. "It's-it's AWFUL!" she faltered, clutching at her husband's arm. "Oh, you don't suppose he can can really get leave to shoot Laddie, do you?"
I saw the police invading restaurants and snatching cigarettes from the mouths of women. I saw drink being driven underground by Prohibition. I began to question whether I should really like to live in the United States after all. I asked those of my friends who had been to America.
Miss Rutherford, the broken rudder still on her knees, and Frank, were left on shore. "Do you think," she said, "that Priscilla intends to maroon us here? She's gone without us." "I'm awfully sorry," said Franks "It's not my fault. I couldn't stop her." "She's got all the food there is, even the peppermint creams. I wish I'd thought of snatching that parcel from the boat before she started.
As for me an' Neils, we'll go down to the Front an' charter a tug an' chase out after that there derelict before the revenue cutter gets her an' blows her out o' the path o' commerce with a stick o' dynamite." Forthwith Mr. Gibney and Neils, after snatching a hasty breakfast, departed for the waterfront, where they chartered a tug for three days and put to sea.
We'll fight ye until all the men air killed, and then the wimmen'll fight ye, sah." Myself "Well, you may think so, or you may not. From the way our boys are snatching the Confederacy's real estate away, it begins to look as if you'd not have enough to fight anybody on pretty soon. What's the meaning of all this fortifying?" Old Man "Why, don't you know?
When the remains of this introductory morsel had been removed and the pavement washed, he gave the "Sword of Persia" pieces of raw flesh, teasing the beast by snatching the daintiest bits out of his mouth, and then offering them to him again, till the satiated brute stretched himself yawning at his feet.
Snatching up a big blacksnake whip that lay on the ground, she caught the hames, stretched along the horse's neck, and, for the first time, the fine, big fellow felt on his back the quality of the lash that Duncan was accustomed to crack over him. He was frightened, and ran at top speed.
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