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There were no leaves upon the trees at this advanced season, and one could see the natives among the branches in all directions as they were perched for safety in the tree-tops, to which they had climbed like monkeys at the terrible sounds of danger. "Where is the tiger?" we shouted to the first man we could distinguish in this safe retreat only a few yards distant.
The delight of the enterprise would have been intense if my unexpected success had not allowed me to forget one thing when I had made my hasty plans. There were no oars in the boat. The terrible truth came to me as I fixed the seat and prepared to put greater distance between the Labrador and myself. But one look round convinced me that the position was hopeless.
You know what a terrible man he is; if he should once suspect us of having a private end in view, we should entirely miss our mark." Especially the secretary was made acquainted with the enormous error which would be committed by Don John in leaving his post. Perez "had ventured into the water" upon the subject, he said, by praising the Governor warmly to his Majesty.
He still stung under the blow he had received, and Boseley was slain more to gratify the vengeance of the captain than for any violated law. A number of Boseley's shipmates were permitted to come and witness the terrible scene. The captain said to Boseley: "What is your distance?" "Twelve steps." "Step off your ground," added the captain. "I cannot do it; you do it for me."
He stood between her and a certain, terrible death. One word from him, and it would be over his path clear. But he could not speak that word. Treacherous and cruel as she had been, the halo of her first glory still hung about her.
Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men, and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty. So he was faithful unto death.
A rough bamboo fence separated the maize from a copse of bamboo jungle and forest, in which I was one day collecting with Vic, when I attempted to jump over a very low part of the fence. Vic, however, called out to me to stop, and it was lucky he did so, as otherwise the consequences would have been terrible for me.
Once within, the exasperated Indians took a terrible revenge, a single priest being, as we are told, the sole survivor of the twenty thousand inhabitants. In the end the Spaniards put down the insurrection by treachery and cunning, seized the chiefs, and sent Andres to Ceuta, in Spain, where he remained in prison till 1820.
The cowboy's face was beginning to flush a terrible purple as the breath was gradually crushed from his body.
"Ah, but this is terrible, doctor! You will have to find out about it- -you cannot let such men stay in the church." The other rose and closed the door of his study. Then he drew his chair close to Samuel. "Now," he said, "what is it?" "It's Mr. Wygant," said Samuel. "Mr. Wygant!" cried the other in dismay. "Yes, Dr. Vince." "What has he done?"
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