United States or Japan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"And where's Harry Boyce?" says Mr. Hadley. Sir John stared at him. "Why, seeking honour too, ain't he? What's in your head, Charles?" "This is rude," my lady sobbed; "this is brutal. The tutor! Oh, heaven, what is the tutor to me? I would to God I had never seen him him nor his wicked father." Sir John tugged at Mr. Hadley's empty sleeve and drew him aside. "What are you pointing at, Charles?
Farther still they pushed into the woods, hardly noticing how dark the shadows were growing. The cry seemed close at hand. "Yes, here's my darling lamb!" Elizabeth tugged at the poor little thing, caught by its woolly fleece in the long sharp thorns of a bush. "Help, Chewannick, pull hard!" Great tufts of black wool were left on the bush, but the frightened little creature was freed at last.
She panted as she tugged at something that gave with a short "click-click," as of steel fastenings; something fell against the fender.... These also.... She tore at them, and kicked them as they lay about her feet as leaves lie about the trunk of a tree in autumn.... "Ah!"
In this manner the burthen approached, yard after yard, until it was evidently drawing near the window. "It's the captain hoisting up the big baste of a hog, for provisioning the hoose, ag'in a saige," whispered Mike to the negroes, who grinned as they tugged; "and when the cr'atur squails, see to it, that ye do not squail yerselves."
With a quick exclamation, he ran forward into the edge of the water. Then he drew back. "Save him," Phebe commanded. "Go in! I can't do anything in this horrid gown." As she spoke, she tugged fiercely at her fluffy skirt which, wet to her knees, clung closely about her feet. "Go in and get him!" she commanded again. Then for the hour, Gifford Barrett wished that the sand would close over him.
When the smoke drifts grew more dense, and here and there a tongue of flame showed pale beneath the sunshine, it stopped abruptly and began to trumpet. The guards who led it, tugged manfully at the chains which hung from the jagged metal collar round its neck, so that the spikes ran deep into its flesh, and reminded it keenly of its bondage.
Then he heard her voice, and turned too late. As she tugged at the door, he sprang across grasping his flask, but Sweyn dashed between, and caught him back irresistibly, so that a most frantic effort only availed to wrench one arm free. With that, on the impulse of sheer despair, he cast at her with all his force. The door swung behind her, and the flask flew into fragments against it.
It was almost more than he could manage, that rock, but he pulled and he tugged, and he tugged and he pulled, 'til he had it safe on the crate-cover over the hole and Reddy was saved! It was just in time, too, for the dogs had come barking and yelping and bellowing, and now all they could do was to sniff, sniff, sniff around that hole.
Weel, he tried, and tugged, and better than tugged at the stane, but he coudna mudge it ava; an' when he looked about, he saw a man at his ilbuck, a' smeared wi' smiddy-coom, snightern an' laughin' at him. The laird d -d him, an' bade him lift it, whilk he did as gin 't had been a little pinnin.
The wind battled with Biddy's umbrella, and tugged madly at her bonnet strings, and buffeted Mr Roy's wide-awake, and screamed exultingly as it blew out his pipe! "Fresh up here, isn't it?" he remarked as he took it out of his mouth. Fresh! Biddy had never felt so cold in her life, and could not have thought there had been so much fresh air in the whole world put together.
Word Of The Day