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"I don't own 'em, missus; but, from what I can hear, they're restin' and recoverin' their strength." "I've brought you the stakes from our side," says Sally, and down she slaps a five-pound note and a sovereign upon the table. "Take 'em up, missus take 'em up. I don't feel equal to the responsibility. This here's a public challenge, hey?" "The publicker the better."
They are built and tiled with wood and bamboos, and covered and roofed with nipa-palm leaves. Each house is separate, and is not built adjoining another. In the lower part are enclosures made by stakes and bamboos, where their fowls and cattle are reared, and the rice pounded and cleaned. One ascends into the houses by means of ladders that can be drawn up, which are made from two bamboos.
I'm all the while in quest of stakes and white rags to place at the other side of the field to direct the progress of the lads and lasses in a straight course, and raise their eyes away from the plough that they happen to be using. I want to keep them thinking of things that are bigger and further along than grades.
It's been ten years since I've talked it. But your telling me that you threw it all over that little home out there, and a man that was driving down deeply the stakes of his home threw it over because the black spot from his collar button made you feel hysterical Oh, I tell you there is a grin through the scheme of things. A laugh. What old man Metz used to call a belly laugh."
"I have no answer, monsieur, for such folly." "Not yet, but you will have. A man does not play for such stakes as I have played for, win them, and then throw them away." "If I understand your folly rightly, you have not won. I could pity were there not a tone of threatening in your voice. To love you is, and always will be, impossible."
The Lyakhs could not withstand this onslaught; and he drove them back, and chased them straight to the spot where the stakes and fragments of spears were driven into the earth. The horses began to stumble and fall and the Lyakhs to fly over their heads.
A square fence was then formed with stakes, the interstices being filled up by masses of bushes, making it perfectly impervious, so that even elephants would hesitate before attempting to break through it. Within the circle rude huts were built for the accommodation of the garrison, one of which, of rather better construction, was devoted to Ned's use.
Then all is said, the tempest is loosed, stones rain down, a fusillade breaks forth, many precipitate themselves to the bottom of the bank, and pass the small arm of the Seine, now filled in, the timber-yards of the Isle Louviers, that vast citadel ready to hand, bristle with combatants, stakes are torn up, pistol-shots fired, a barricade begun, the young men who are thrust back pass the Austerlitz bridge with the hearse at a run, and the municipal guard, the carabineers rush up, the dragoons ply their swords, the crowd disperses in all directions, a rumor of war flies to all four quarters of Paris, men shout: "To arms!" they run, tumble down, flee, resist.
He used to spend his time chiefly in playing preference with a greasy old pack of cards for stakes of a quarter-farthing with clerks. It was not a case of chivalrous indignation at the sight of injured innocence; the whole operation took place in the midst of roars of laughter, and the one who laughed loudest was Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch himself.
The apartment of the travellers unfortunately communicated with his, and the restless tongues of his numerous wives prevented either of the Landers from dosing their eyes long after sunset. In the centre of their yard grew a tree, round which several stakes were driven into the ground.
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