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Nothing disturbs him, until some weak, innocent animalcule ventures unsuspiciously within his reach, and then with one muscular exertion, the monster darts, gripes, gulps him down goes to his sleep or prayers again, and waits a fresh arrival. The creature has no joy but in the pangs of others no life but in their sufferings and death.
Long before the gory feast was completed the fawn, becoming impatient at its mother's non-return, left the clump of arums, green leaves, wide as an elephant's ear, not ten yards away and ambled up unsuspiciously to within a few feet of the great cat where it stood and gazed with wide, innocent eyes upon the fearful scene before it.
And now, my angel, that I am acquainted with your sentiments on this subject, I shall readily fulfil a promise which I made to your lamented parent, whose loss I shall ever deplore." "A promise to my mother?" said Winifred, unsuspiciously. "Yes, my angel, to her rest her soul! She extorted it from me, and bound me by a solemn oath to fulfil it." "Oh! name it." "You are a party concerned.
There he stands. I'm his lieutenant, Lieutenant Blueskin. We're two good-looking fellows, ain't we?" "Very good-looking," replied Rachel. "But, where's the strange gentleman I saw under the table?" "Under the table!" echoed Blueskin, winking at Jack. "When did you see him, my love?" "A short time ago," replied the housekeeper, unsuspiciously. "The plot's out!" cried Jack.
It was ostensibly on quite another theme; asking some information in regard to a comrade, but so cunningly devised and executed as to tell him in few words, and unsuspiciously, some news of Sallie, news which she knew would delight his heart, and overthrow the little barrier which had stood between them, making both miserable, but which he would not, and she could not, clamber over or destroy.
The second squatter, rejoicing beyond measure at having accomplished his long-desired purpose, unsuspiciously agreed, dropped the axe, cautiously grasped the sinewy shanks, and bent his strength to the momentary struggle. To his utter dismay, he beheld his neighbour quietly shoulder the axe, and walk away from the ground! "Hold on!" he shouted; "ain't ye goin' to kill the bar?"
Yet to encounter Atahuallpa in the open field would be attended with great hazard; and even if victorious, there would be little probability that the person of the Inca, of so much importance, would fall into the hands of the victors. The invitation he had so unsuspiciously accepted to visit them in their quarters afforded the best means for securing this desirable prize.
The two boys had completed their task, and were siting down in their subterranean abode, when the roof suddenly gave way, and a visitor entered in the most unceremonious manner. The old lady had kept on her way unsuspiciously, using as a cane a faded blue umbrella, which she carried invariably, whatever the weather. When Mrs.
I forgot something. Good night!" "Good night!" said Harry, unsuspiciously. Luke stooped swiftly while our hero's back was turned, and picked up the pocketbook. He slipped it into his own pocket, and, instead of going back to the store, went to his own room, locked the door, and then eagerly pulled out the pocketbook and counted the contents. "Thirty-three dollars! What a miser that fellow is!
Quite unsuspiciously, therefore, he bade the buglers sound the advance, and Arnold, with twenty-five of his men, rushed on to the bridge and were instantly shot down. For fully two minutes Harry Havelock on his horse kept his position in front of the guns with only a private beside him, and the dead lying in heaps on all sides. 'Come on!
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