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With the blunt end he caught one man full in the face, then drove down his sharp edge and clove another head to waist. For an instant he was unable to get out his ax, but Brian thrust up and drove death to a third, then stood on his feet again. At the same instant there came a roar from across the camp where his main body of men were engaged, and Brian thrilled to the sound.
"Are they not for Miss Frederica?" "Oh no, let them be for me!" he besought, kneeling at her side. Again his voice had such a plaintive ring in it almost like that of a begging child. She handed him the violets without looking up. Then he clasped her round the waist and held her close to him. She did not resist, but closed her eyes and breathed heavily.
"Sure I can," Burke replied, swaying his body about from the waist up, as if to indicate the ease with which it could be accomplished. "Well, when that's done, come back, and we'll talk over the other matter. Perhaps, after all well, we'll talk it over." Burke walked to the door with his usual conquering step, but there turned. "Say," he said, "that story about the fight " He looked at Adelaide.
The general belief was that although Edgar, no doubt, would make a plucky fight of it, he had no chance whatever with an opponent nearly three years his senior, two or three stone heavier, and with a reputation for being able to use his fists well. The opponents stripped to the waist and faced each other.
I knew she was in for a three weeks' drillin' by the roughest stage manager in the business. You know who. But he can deliver the goods, can't he? He makes the green ones act. Look at what he did with Ruby! Only it don't seem like actin' at all. She's just Ruby, in the same puckered waist, her hair mopped around her head in the same silly braid, and that same stary look in her big eyes.
Woot watched this operation with much interest, for the Scarecrow's body was only a suit of clothes filled with straw. The coat was buttoned tight to keep the packed straw from falling out and a rope was tied around the waist to hold it in shape and prevent the straw from sagging down. The Scarecrow's head was a gunnysack filled with bran, on which the eyes, nose and mouth had been painted.
Casanova threw their bundles after him, and then placing a third stool on top of the other two, climbed on to it, and, being almost on a level with the opening, was able to get through as far as his waist, when Balbi took him in his arms and proceeded to drag him out.
If I should be taken! What would become of me?" "No, no, Lily: don't take on so," said Dan, as he passed his arm around her waist a familiarity in which he had never before indulged, but which was done only as a father clasps his child to inspire her with more confidence, to assure her that she was in the care of one who was able and willing to save her from the dreadful fate that impended.
"They must have finished work and are resting." But from a third mound a boat moved away with a number of crying children, while a woman wading in the water to her waist shook her fist and threatened. "They are taking children to school," thought Ramses. These happenings began to interest him. On a fourth mound he heard a fresh cry.
A girl, who was the youthful image of herself, with tresses that fell to her waist, romped with a crowing infant, whose age was so tender as scarcely to admit the uncertain evidence of its intelligence. Such was the scene as the clock of the piazza told the hour. Struck with the sound, the father set down the boy and consulted his watch. "Dost thou use thy gondola to-night, love?" he demanded.
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