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The cliffs here were nearly a hundred feet high. They descended sheer down into deep water; in some places even overhung the sea. Here John Bumpus, having recovered from the stunning effects of the blow dealt him by Keona, renewed his struggles, and rendered the passage of the place not only difficult but dangerous to himself as well as to his enemies.
One could hear the crackle of the flames, the crash of the falling tree-trunks. The air about the cottage was torn into threads; beneath the shocks of the electricity the lawn seemed to heave and tremble. It was like some giant monster, bound and fettered, struggling to be free. Now it growled sullenly, now in impotent rage it spat and spluttered, now it lashed about with crashing, stunning blows.
Across her track the almost submerged hull of a derelict lay drifting. Black night veiled the danger from the keenest eyes. A frenzied order from the poop put a stunning period to our merriment. "Helm up, f'r God's sake! . . . Up! oh God! Up! Up!" A furious impact dashed us to the deck. Staggering, bruised, and bleeding, we struggled to our feet.
"I shall be ready and waiting, if you don't bother," was the response of Pierce. "I wonder if old Ketch is safely off?" "What a stunning fright Ketch would be in, if he came in here and met the ghost!" exclaimed Hurst. "He'd never think it was anything less than the Old Gentleman come for him." A chorus of laughter, which Hurst himself hushed.
On the night of the stunning news of the last conflict at Chancellorsville, Lincoln could derive no comfort from later intelligence. Late at night General Halleck, commanding the capital, and Secretary Stanton left him unconsoled. Then his secretary, as long as he stayed, heard the man on whom rested the national hopes her very future pace his room without pause save to turn.
But, the next instant, two of them suddenly turned, and drawing and flourishing their knives behind them, sprang for the open windows, with the intention of leaping through them. "At 'em, Roarer!" exclaimed Coffin, seizing one escaping tory by the leg, and hurling him back with stunning effect upon the floor.
"Won't there be a stunning flogging? Bywater, who did it? Do you know?" Bywater sat himself astride over the end of a bench, and nodded. The senior boy turned to him, some slight surprise in his look and tone. "Do you know, Bywater?" "Pretty well, Gaunt.
"That must be Kathryn Fleming. Isn't she simply stunning?" she said, as a tall, fair-haired woman in gold-and-white brocade entered the Hall; "and there's Judge Weston and Miss Fisken what a gorgeous gown! looks Chinese. I wonder who that small, black-haired girl is! She looks as if she played the violin or wrote plays or something."
Throwing herself upon a chair, and placing cavalierly one foot upon another, so as to display her leg, which was admirable, "Do you know that it's perfectly stunning to see you here?" she said to M. de Tregars. "Just imagine, for a moment, what a face the Baron Three Francs Sixty-eight will make when he sees you!"
His one great hobby lay in the line of photography, and such had been his remarkable success with a cheap outfit that his mother had surprised and delighted the boy on a recent birthday by giving him an expensive camera. Of course, he was fairly wild to get away into the woods and secure many stunning pictures of the great outdoor folks, the birds and animals inhabiting the wilds.
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