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Settin' into the game like a a " He leaned and spat "But burnin' guards ain't no work for a woman to do, an' I told Man so straight out. 'You git help, I says. 'I see you're might' near through with this here strip, I says, 'an' I'm in a hurry, or I'd stay, right now. And, by granny! if that there wife of Man's didn't up an' hit me another biff he-he!
My heart was leaping with a kind of joy. 'No trick pistols this time, I cried. And I spat in his face. "But another's ball came to his rescue. I felt it, cold as ice and hot as fire in my lung. I made a wild slash at him as I fell; saw him wince, but ride away.... So, now I lie in a camp hospital. It has seemed a long time. But it is the fortune of war. Perhaps I shall see you soon."
"For," as she said, "if words of man or woman could bring the rafters about our ears, or open a pit to send us lightly whither we all must go who have heard them, those words which Madam Olimpia spat about her must surely do it." So much she confessed to afterwards, but no more; for she stayed nothing more.
She bit it and scratched it and even spat upon it. Had Mrs. Snawdor or Uncle Jed been there, the catastrophe would never have happened; but Mrs. Snawdor was at the post-office, and Uncle Jed at the signal tower, and the feeble protests of Mr. Demry were as futile as the twittering of a sparrow.
The battle during the next ten minutes raged with considerable fury; but it so happened that during this time I was never able to knock the Flaming Tinman down, but on the contrary received six knock-down blows myself. "I can never stand this," said I, as I sat on the knee of Belle, "I am afraid I must give in; the Flaming Tinman hits very hard," and I spat out a mouthful of blood.
When I made him cut the deer's throats a little lower down the throat than their canons permit, to save the specimen, they spat on the ground to show their contempt, and abused him heartily. They were also very suspicious.
But after surveying the result a moment he seemed to feel that he had insulted a helpless object, for he took the hat off, spat into it, and kicked it into shapeless pulp. Then he came back to the house and grimly asked his wife if she had anything handy to take the poison out of hornet stings.
Amos Burr spat a mouthful of tobacco juice through the open window, flinching before the boy's steady glance. He was a mild-natured man at best, whose chief sin was his softness. It would not have entered his slow-witted head to protest against the accusations of his wife. When they stung him into revolt he revolted in the opposite direction. But his failures were faults in his son's eyes.
Having looked them over each and every, Penfeather spat, and setting them in Godby's charge, ordered them to go on before. "Well, Martin," says he as we followed together, "and how think ye of my lambs?" "Call them raging tigers, rather " "Nay," says he, "tigers be cleanly creatures, I've heard." "'A God's name, Adam, why truck with such ill rogues? Sure there be many honest mariners to be had?"
But he knew what to do, and spat out once or twice behind the carriage some of the sea-water which he had drunk, and a great sea arose in which the warriors were caught and drowned.
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