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The man, after two or three attempts, staggered to his feet and stood swaying. "God help me!" he said. "I can do no more!" "Yes, you can, John! Yes, you can! Perhaps there is a whole fountain of water there on the mesa!" The glazed look returned to DeWitt's eyes.
The men sat in the buckboard, leaning forward with hunched shoulders, swaying easily to the pitching of the vehicle as it rattled along the trail which, especially where it passed over the round topped ridges, was thickly strewn with stones. Before them, now on the trail and now ranging wide over the prairie, ran a beautiful black and white English setter. "Great dog that, Sandy," said Duff.
She had taken her place in the middle of a great flagstone, and stood there swaying her supple body to the shocks. Her face was calm, and its loveliness was untouched by the years. From time to time she brushed away the dust as it settled on the short red hair which curled about her neck. There was no trace of fear written upon her face.
They lifted him to his feet and shuffled awkwardly through the doorway. Swaying between the internes, his shriveled body held upright by a desperate effort of will, he fought for breath. Pete raised on his elbow, his dark eyes wide. "Spider!" he exclaimed. The internes felt The Spider's slackened muscles grow tense as he endeavored to get closer to the cot. They helped him a step forward.
Nearly all girls are clever imitators, and Clara readily adopted Capitola's light, springy, swaying walk, and met old Dorcas Knight in the hall, without exciting the slightest suspicion of her identity. "Humph!" said the woman; "so you are going! I advise you not to come back again!" Clara threw up her head with a swagger, and went on.
He had been a slave in the time of the Pharaohs; a priest in Babylon; had clung to the swaying ladders in the sack of Rome; had won his way into the councils when Europe was a battlefield of contending tribes; had climbed to power in the days of the Borgias.
I was cool enough therefore to think of the aftermath of the thing I meant to do. I looked back once again towards the swaying discussion or was it a fight now? and then I dropped into the hollow, knelt among the weeds, and loaded with eager trembling fingers. I loaded one chamber, got up and went back a dozen paces, thought of possibilities, vacillated, returned and loaded all the others.
A capricious or whimsical character, swaying with unlimited power, is certainly the most dangerous guardian of the prerogatives of sovereignty, as well as of the rights and liberties of the people.
We went on, and looked up into his face. It was a nightmare his face. 'In truth a Tanuki-Bozu, said Kinjuro. 'What does the Master honourably think concerning it? Instead of replying, I jumped back; for the monstrous thing had suddenly reached over the hedge and clutched at me, with a moan. Then it fell back, swaying and creaking. It was moved by invisible strings.
She moved forward along the path, slightly swaying her slender figure at each step, and with a pretty black-mittened little hand pushing her long soft curls back from her face. A small wooden house with a gable, painted a pink colour, stood in the middle of the garden, and seemed to be peeping out innocently from behind the green trees.
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