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His eye shot over the blackened southern land; he saw the carnage, the desolation, the starvation, and the shame; and like a battered old warhorse, he flung up his frontlet, sniffed the tainted breeze, and snorted 'Ha, Ha!" It was at once determined by the Republican majority in Congress that the representatives of the eleven seceding States should not be admitted.
Come, I'll introdooce him to you." "Look alive, then," growled Quintal, impatiently, for he seemed to have smelt the spirit, as the warhorse is said to smell the battle from afar. "Give us hold o' the cup and fill up; fill up, I say, to the brim. None o' your half measures for me." He took a mouthful, rolled it round and round with his tongue once or twice, and swallowed it.
He and Corney went to the place, and when they cut off what they needed, they found in the far end of it the dried-up bodies of two little Lynxes with that of the mother, and in the side of the old one was the head of a fish-spear broken from the handle. The History of a Jack-rabbit The Little Warhorse knew practically all the Dogs in town.
They were proud hard men, and uttered no entreaty for grace. They had hung too many travellers upon these same branches not to expect their own turn, and they were no cravens to abase themselves. That act of justice ended, Henry mounted his warhorse and rode in at the gates.
The first two were vanquished gasping out of it, but the next two were racing near. The Warhorse put forth all his strength. He left the first two far behind was nearly to the Haven when the second two came up. Nothing but dodging could save him now. His ears were sinking, his heart was pattering on his ribs, but his spirit was strong. He flung himself in wildest zigzags.
The last he saw of it was the four foaming Dogs feebly dodging after a weak and worn-out Jack-rabbit, and the judge on his Horse beckoning to the man with the gun. The gate closed behind him, and Mickey heard a bang-bang, an unusual uproar mixed with yelps of Dogs, and he knew that Little Jack Warhorse had been served with finish No. 4.
I shall be amply provided with money; and if you find a bargain, let me know, and I will give you the means. Mind, buy nothing that looks like a warhorse, but something in keeping with your appearance." That evening, Oswald had another interview with Percy, and received his final instructions, and a bag of money.
I have bestrode my warhorse in my armor and have looked down at the sooty, smoky bombardman beside me, and I have thought that perhaps I was the last of the old and he the first of the new; that there would come a time when he and his engines would sweep you and me and the rest of us from the field." "But not yet, I trust, honored sir?" "No, not yet, Nigel.
"Yes; come along, my dear old warhorse," I murmured, turning my face toward the wall. "There is a nice little surprise party in here waiting for you." The door opened. "Unlocked!" bawled the Count. "What does this mean, Baron?" "He gave his word as a gentleman," was the quiet reply. "Gentleman? Ach!
Over these last writings of Scott, his Napoleons, Demonologies, Scotch Histories, and the rest, criticism, finding still much to wonder at, much to commend, will utter no word of blame, this one word only, Wo is me! The noble warhorse that once laughed at the shaking of the spear, how is he doomed to toil himself dead, dragging ignoble wheels!
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