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The first hastily unbuckled and threw back his holster flap, even while he pressed his horse to come up with the new arrival; while the latter, hearing the sound of hoofs, halted and twisted about in his saddle. "Well met, Brereton," he called when the space between had lessened. "I am seeking his Excellency, who, I was told at Newtown, was to be found at Mackonkey's Ferry.
He felt nothing but a vast fatigue, an overwhelming weariness, not so much of body, but of nerve and spirit too. Rip broke the silence with a question aimed at the tech. "Can you signal below?" "Going to give up?" The fellow brightened. "Yes, there's an inter-com I can cut in." Rip stood up. He unbuckled the belt about his waist and laid it on the table disarming himself.
Such a glorious death was by no means his ideal. When the battle was raging its fiercest, when the opposing warriors fell upon each other tooth and nail, and there was such a whirring and clashing of lances and battle-axes that it was as much as a man could do to avoid having an eye knocked out then, I say, Simplex, without thinking twice about it, sprang nimbly from his nag, unbuckled both his kettle-drums, left his steed to its own devices, hid the trumpet in the bushes, and crept himself into a place where the reeds and sedges were thickest.
Cities appeared and vanished, growing higher and vaster as they went across the more civilized Third Level. One was under air attack there was almost never a paratemporal transposition which did not run through some scene of battle. He unbuckled his belt and took off his boots and tunic; all around him, the others were doing the same.
The other officers presented their swords, while the seamen unbuckled their cutlasses, and the marines piled their arms. Many wry faces were made, though most of the Frenchmen merely shrugged their shoulders, observing that what had happened to them was the fortune of war. Bill made himself very useful in communicating with the French officers and crew.
So, according to the book, I have to arrest you." "All right." He unbuckled his gun and handed it over. "Now, George, I herewith make complaint and accusation against Leonard Kellogg, charging him with the unlawful and unjustified killing of a sapient being, to wit, an aboriginal native of the planet of Zarathustra commonly known as Goldilocks."
"Lay your sword on the table, sir," the admiral said, "and retire to your cabin, where you will remain, under close arrest, till a court martial can be assembled." Richard Horton unbuckled his sword and laid it on the table, and left the cabin without a word. "It would have been better to send a guard with him," Captain Peters said; "he might jump overboard, or blow his brains out."
Obediently Heppner unbuckled his belt and laid it down. He pushed the revolver carefully into his coat-pocket, and swung himself out of the window. The deputy sergeant-major extinguished the lamp and followed him.
At the barn she unbuckled the saddle and the bridle outside the door, let the sorrel trot in alone, and ran toward the kitchen. When the doctor completed his diagnosis that night, he told the little girl's mother only what she had long known: that she might live to see her daughter a grown woman and her sons old men; that she might pass away before the end of another week, or another day.
Quick, then. There is not a moment to be lost. You will not flinch?" "I? No!" whispered Denis proudly. "Quick, then! The darkness is the best disguise." And leading the way into the sleeping chamber, he busied himself with torn-up linen and scarf, preparing the semblance of bandages, while Denis unbuckled his sword-belt and hurriedly threw off his doublet.
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