United States or São Tomé and Príncipe ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Nay, then, Jack, thou shalt not outrun me. So I say yes too," quoth Cary. "Mr. Drew?" "At your service, sir, to live or die. I know naught about stockading; but Sir Francis would have given the same counsel, I verily believe, if he had been in your place." "Then tell the men that we start in an hour's time. Win over the Pelicans, Yeo and Drew; and the rest must follow, like sheep over a hedge."
They broke into a run for a dozen paces, and then some half of either company halted, and while the rest went forward, those who stood began to try to clear the way with arrow flights, shooting over their heads so that the shafts might drop within the stockading.
One went inside the castle walls to find almost a village of buildings, all of timber, that had grown up round the hall that stood in the midst, and that had its courtyard and stockading, as had our own house on the open hill at Bures. I think there was no stronger place than this castle of Pevensea in all Sussex, if anywhere on the southern coasts.
The rest of the army were armed with swords and spears, and carried implements for stockading and entrenching. The force was accompanied by a number of astrologers; and by the Invulnerables who had, doubtless, satisfactorily explained their failure to capture the pagoda.
He opened the gates a little, and we three slipped out and stood for a moment together. The night was very dark, and the wind howled and sang through the stockading, and none seemed to be about the place. There Halfden took my hand and bade me farewell very sadly. "This is the best I may do for you, my brother.
The first damp straws of the thatch hissed for a moment, dried, and burst into flame, and then nought could stop the burning. The red flames gathered brightness every moment, lighting up two sides of the stockading, in the midst of which the hall stood. Then an arrow clicked on Stuf's helm, and he came down into shelter. "This is a strange affair, Master," he said.
So it happened that when at last he saw the red light from the door of our hall gleaming across the snow, for it had been left open that perchance I might see it, he was close to the place, and he came into the courtyard inside the stockading without meeting any one, for he came from the side on which the village is not.
The gates are heavy, certainly, and may take us a day or two; but, as for stockading I've seen barracks stockaded in, in a week, if I remember right. You know something of this what is your opinion?"
They chose their billets in the barns, hay-lofts, granaries, the cider-house, even the empty cattle-stalls, and under the brisk captaincy of Trevarthen fell to work stockading the weak spots in the defence and piercing loopholes in the outer walls.
We were alone on the rampart, with the stables below us on one side and the high stockading on the other; and then he dropped that subject, and talked of my home going in all friendly wise. "There are always chances," he said. "Come and take service with Offa if aught goes amiss at home." "I have promised to go to Ethelbert, if so I must," I answered, thinking to end his seemingly idle talk.
Word Of The Day