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I mean Val M'Clutchy, or Val the Vulture, as they have very properly christened him. Hickman's not the thing, in any sense. He can't manage the people, and they impose upon him then you suffer, of course. Bedsides, he's an anti-ascendancy man, of late, and will go against you at the forthcoming Election.
And as now she turned towards me, nodding her signal to follow, and went on up the shadowy passage, rows of gigantic birds ibis and vulture, and huge sea glaucus glared at me in the false light of their hungry eyes. So I entered the sick-room, and the first glance told me that my art was powerless there.
Again the chieftain within him sided against the vulture rabble and with the well-meaning monarch who kept his troops to a tame defensive.
They were obliged to confess, and insisted upon it that Seriff Sahib had sent them, &c. Many urged me to put these Dyaks to death; but the reluctance we all have to shedding blood withheld me, and I had no desire to strike at a wren when a foul vulture was at hand.
The vulture followed the skiff; but when it stopped opposite to the large white building, one side of which was washed by the waves, Ledscha pointed to the windows of Hermon's studio, exclaiming hoarsely to the young pirate: "You will seize him there the Greek with the long, soft black beard, and the slender figure, I mean.
And had not his features and his look betrayed to her that pain was gnawing at his vitals like the vulture at those of Prometheus? Hapless, pitiable youth, born to the highest fortune, and now a decrepit old man in the flower of his age! To pray and sacrifice for him must be a pious deed, pleasing to the gods.
The prospect of booty having at once driven out of his head both Gustavus and the provant, he set spurs to Loyalty's Reward, and rode off through the field of battle. "There goes the hound," said Menteith, "breaking the face, and trampling on the body, of many a better man than himself; and as eager on his sordid spoil as a vulture that stoops upon carrion.
The bones were picked clean had been stripped and torn asunder days before, and the vulture which had just left had gotten nothing for its belated visit. Among them were remnants of cloth, a belt and a machete, and strands of coarse black hair. A few feet away lay a cheap "trade" gun. Lourenço inspected the weapon and laid it back. "Did he shoot before he was downed?" asked Knowlton. "No.
Returning to France in 1886 he began to construct the 'Eole, modelling it, not on the vulture, but in the shape of a bat.
He was something more or less than man of another species. In the thick of the fight a lion; in his dominion over armies, in his calmness amidst danger, a god. Shall I ever see it again, I wonder that vulture face, those eyes that flashed Jove's red lightning?"
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