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The road led first through a level mountain valley, then it crossed the pass known as the "Sword-point ", which was the only means of communication between the mines and the Red Sea. The rocky landscape was wild and desolate, and the path to be climbed steep.
Suddenly overcome with sorrow, he drew forth his magic sword from out its scabbard, and, bidding a last farewell to all the world, he thrust the handle firmly into the earth and threw himself upon the sword-point, so that it pierced his heart. Thus ended the evil life of Kullervo.
He was not a fluent man, save in forbidden language, and Seti added: "Behold thou, saadat el bey, who opens a man's body and turns over his heart with a sword-point, and sewing him up with silken cords bids him live again, greatness is in thy house! Last night thy friend, Donovan Pasha, gave into my hands a score of those cigarettes which are like the smell of a camel-yard.
"Here are other Hessian pigs who've drunk more than they've bled," he sneered, as he tossed back the counterpane and blankets with his sword-point, thus uncovering three becapped heads, from each of which issued a scream, while three pairs of hands wildly clutched the covering. The nightcaps so effectually disguised the faces that not a one did the officer recognise in his first hasty glance.
Tribute, they replied, and won the title of 'brave pigs' for their trouble. 'But what's the dish made of? said the trooper, stirring the straw with his sword-point. 'Tribute, came the answer. 'Ha!
Here I live upon the sword-point of a sharp air, endangered if I go abroad, dulled if I stay within, solitary and comfortless, without company, banished from all opportunities to treat with any to do myself good, and to help out my wrecks." But Parliament was dissolved before the touching appeal reached them; and Bacon had to have recourse to other expedients.
There the magistrate's pace had slackened, and he had loitered like a truant schoolboy among the furze and briars. His stoop had deepened, his head was sunk on his breast, his hands twined behind him. Now was the chance for the murderer lurking in the brambles. It would be easy to slip behind and give him the sword-point. But Mr. Lovel tarried.
For my part, I found the crown of France lying upon the ground, and I lifted it upon my sword-point. 'You have lifted France with your sword also, Sire, said Talleyrand, who stood at his elbow. Napoleon looked at his famous minister, and I seemed to read suspicion in his eyes. Then he turned to his secretary. 'I leave Monsieur de Laval in your hands, de Meneval, said he.
There was at first a fury in Doltaire's face and a metallic hardness in his eyes, and I was sure he meant to pass his sword through the other's body; but after standing for a moment, death hanging on his sword-point, he quietly lowered his weapon, and, sitting on a chair-arm, looked curiously at Voban, as one might sit and watch a mad animal within a cage.
He heard no sound, perceived no light, observed no figure, as, after several unsuccessful attempts to reach the place where they stood, he at length paused at the loose stones which he knew were heaped at the base of the wall. The next moment he was so close to it, that he could pass his sword-point over parts of its rugged surface.
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