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But to storm a jail they needed a braver man than Jud Carpenter. And they found him in Richard Travis especially Richard Travis in the terrible mood, the black despair which had come upon him that night. Why did he come? He could not say. In him had surged two great forces that night the force of evil and the force of good.
"Give me a bit more speed, Ned." The lad who was managing the Falcon swung the accelerating lever over another notch, and the craft surged ahead. Then Ned executed a neat trick. Swinging the craft around in a half circle, he suddenly opened the power full, and so got ahead of Koku.
She could still look down in imagination upon the sea of dun backs that swayed and surged about them like storm-tossed waves. "It was a near thing, but we made it, girl. So did Jim. He got out before we did. It's all past now. You can remember it as the most exciting experience of your life." She shuddered. "I don't want to remember it at all."
"Then you'll sail by noon?" "We 've got to! They 've tied us up here over a month, without reason. They worked that old yellow-jack gag and not a touch of fever aboard all that time!" A great wave of contentment surged through Blake's weary body. He put his hand up on the smaller man's shoulder.
So, then, there is a King. These women have, after all, a King. Truly, I am fain to see him, this singular King of a female city. And weak as he was, he began to laugh, as they all were laughing: and so they all surged on like a very sea of laughter, through the gates of the city, and along the streets within, till they came at last to the King's palace.
He struggled madly, and the pulses in his head beat like bells. Just when the case seemed desperate, and he felt as if he must take breath or die, something gave way. He surged upward, and got one great gulp of air. His senses came back to him, and the terror died away.
Only two days before the debate, a glorious Reynolds in the National Gallery was all but hopelessly defaced by a girl of eighteen. Feeling throughout the country surged at a white-heat. Delia said little or nothing, but the hollows under her eyes grew steadily darker, and her cheeks whiter. Nor could Winnington, for all his increasing anxiety, devote himself to soothing or distracting her.
I hailed, in French, as, with main-topsail aback, we surged and wallowed slowly athwart the stern of the stranger, "do you wish to be taken off?" At the first sound of my voice, the man who had pointed us out to the woman rose stiffly to his feet and staggered aft to the taffrail, with his hand to his ear. "But yes," he shouted back, in the same language; "our ship is sinking, and "
There the hunted creature fell insensible on the ground, the master of the house refusing to give her up, though the maddened mob surged around it, swearing that if the "Arminian harlot" as respectable a matron as lived in the city were not delivered over to them, they would tear the house to pieces. The hope of plunder and of killing Rem Bischop himself drew them at last back to his mansion.
But, now I suppose it was because you and he had quarrelled; though really, even so, I can't see why he should bear me a grudge...." Susy's quick blood surged up. Nick had sent back the pin-the fatal pin!
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