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He had not the power to stay the second thrust, and before he could retreat out of danger he was sent sprawling into the hedge bottom. Fortunately, the effects of the blow were considerably diminished, inasmuch as its greatest force was already spent ere De la Zouch was struck.
The narrator sparkled and glowed as he told of Ristofalo's appearance, and reproduced his speeches and manner. "Tell about the apples and eggs," said the delighted Mary. He did so, sitting on the front edge of his chair-seat, and sprawling his legs now in front and now behind him as he swung now around to his wife and now to the Doctor.
Across the road were dug rough rifle-pits which had the look of having been but that moment abandoned. What had been intended for the breakfast of the enemy was burning in pots over tiny fires, little heaps of cartridges lay in readiness upon the edges of each pit, and an arm-chair, in which a sentry had kept a comfortable lookout, lay sprawling in the middle of the road.
Infatuated by the richness of the stream, he created such a powerful sequence of facts that the British began to loom up as a reactionary tribe fighting a rearguard action throughout the ages against the advancing hosts of enlightenment. The Island of Britain, the 'Old Country, as its people called it, began to shape in his eyes like a hundred-taloned monster sprawling over the whole earth.
Before the rustics recovered from their surprise at the suddenness of these movements, two more of their number were sprawling in the dust, and the rest stood off aghast! "Now, then," shouted the indignant tar, as he clapped his back to the side of the inn, "come on! the whole of 'ee. I hope yer wills is made. What! ye're afeard, are ye?
Smiling again, though with a dull heart ache as her gaze still lingered on the sprawling Brent, she took Miss Liz's wrist in the nick of time, saying: "They're asleep. Let's go in first and brush off." She knew the invariable appeal which "brushing off" had for prim Miss Liz.
"Could it be that city we be seeking?" "Would that we had a boat!" said Greg, which might have been quite proper if he'd been somebody else, instead of Baroo. We'd been sprawling on the sand again for quite a while, when Jerry suddenly jumped up and shouted: "Glory! Look, Chris!" not at all like Terry Loganshaw. I did look, and saw what he had seen.
Foy's knee shot up to Applegate's stomach. Applegate fell, sprawling. Foy hurled himself on Creagan and bore him crashing to the floor. Foy whirled over; he rose on one hand and knee, gun drawn, visibly annoyed; also considerably astonished at the unexpected advent of Mr. Pringle. Applegate lay groaning on the floor.
She slid lower in the chair, until her head rested on the back, her sprawling legs outstretched, her fingers clasped across her starched waistcoat, upon her face an expression of humorous disdain. "Let me tell you a story to illustrate what you can do and get away with it to ease your mind if you're afraid of gettin' into trouble on my account.
The men supped by themselves, and the women of course were also apart. My host, anxious that I should see all, insisted upon my going to have a peep at the ladies whilst they were supping. Unlike us men, who sat up round a table, because there were several Europeans among us, the women lay sprawling and rolling on carpets and couches.
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