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Lund tells us that at Lagoa do Sumidouro crania were found pierced with circular tools, whilst near them lay the implements that had caused death. The force with which they must have been shot is really astonishing; one had broken the upper jaw and knocked out several teeth, penetrating to the brain; and others were still sticking in the vertebrae and ribs.

Arriving at La Salle Tuesday morning, we went on board a canal-boat, had a detention by sticking on a mud bar, and then jogg'd along at a slow trot, some seventy of us, on a moderate-sized boat. We stopt at various points along the canal, some of them pretty villages.

I'll learn ye to say 'sir' when ye speak to a gentleman." "Answer my question," said Captain Twinely, "or, by God, I'll make you." "Try him with half hanging," said the other officer, speaking for the first time. "I've known a tongue wag freely enough after it's been sticking black out of a man's mouth for a couple of minutes." "Too risky, Jack.

He arrived late in the afternoon, having stopped for tea in a large riverside town, and he had a pink evening paper sticking out of his pocket. He fell on the riverside garden like a quiet and well-behaved thunderbolt, but he was a thunderbolt without knowing it.

With copra at the price it is, they ought to be willing to bear their share of the loss; and so I've told them again and again. I think it's a man's duty to open their minds, and I try to, but you can't get political economy into them; it doesn't seem to reach their intelligence." There was an expression still sticking in Carthew's memory, and he returned upon it with a smile.

I am thinking of travel as it was when I made the Grand Tour, especially in Italy. Memory is a net; one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook; but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking. I can prove some facts about travelling by a story or two. There are certain principles to be assumed, such as these: He who is carried by horses must deal with rogues.

It tried to dash away when it saw the mounted men, but the effort was too much for it. It fell over, tried to get up but couldn't, and lay in the sand, panting and moaning with pain. The point of a spear was sticking in its side just behind the shoulder-blade. Yarloo pulled it out and looked at it. The shaft, which had broken off about a foot from the end was made of lance-wood.

'I believe this, sir and your cousin will believe the same, if he will only give up, as I am sore afraid he will need to some day, sticking to arguments and doctrines about the Lord, and love and trust the Lord himself.

"They are white men," said Howard. "Do yez obsarve any pipes sticking out of their mouths?" "One or two are smoking." "Then boord them if they won't surrender." "They have headed toward us," remarked Elwood, "and must wish to say something." A few moments later the two boats came side by side, and before any one else could speak Tim made his request known for tobacco.

A viper has fastened upon him and he pampers her, and hasn't the pluck to kick her out. Tfoo! To think there should be women like that, God forgive me! Eh? Has she no shame? She has fastened upon the lad, sticking to him, and keeps him tied to her apron strings. . . . Fie upon her!" "Perhaps it's not she keeps hold of him, but he of her?" "She is a shameless one anyway!