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He stood back and waited with his breast heaving and his point lowered, until I had risen and stood again on my guard. 'Enough! enough! a rough voice behind me cried. 'Don't hurt the man after that. 'On guard, sir! I answered coldly for he seemed to waver, and be in doubt. 'It was an accident. It shall not avail you again.

And both equally infuriate and both eager for victory, both those combatants raised their arms resembling snakes furnished with five hoods, and attacked each other with their nails and teeth, wrought up to frenzy of wrath. Impetuously assailed by the powerful Kichaka in that encounter, the resolute Bhima did not waver a single step.

Still her eyes did not waver. She began to sense his object in introducing this subject, and she was determined to make him feel that his conclusions were incorrect as she knew they were. "That is an example of your wonderful power of observation," she said, "the kind you were telling me about, which makes you able to make such remarkable deductions.

And she put the casket again from off her knees, all changed by the prompting of Hera, and no more did she waver in purpose; but longed for the rising dawn to appear quickly, that she might give him the charms to work the spell as she had promised, and meet him face to face.

The humiliation and wrath of the public in England were great, but the resolution of the politicians was beginning to waver; on the 10th of February, 1778, Lord North had presented two bills whereby England was to renounce the right of levying taxes in the American colonies, and was to recognize the legal existence of Congress.

Just as Marsham was climbing into his seat he was struck. McEwart saw him waver, and heard a muttered exclamation. "You're hurt!" he said, supporting him. "Let the groom drive." Marsham pushed him away. "It's nothing."

"I don't believe you ever before had such pals to desert," was my reply to that. "Quite apart from my own share in the matter, it makes me positively sick to see a fellow like you mixed up with such a crew in such a game. Get out of it, man, get out of it while you can! Now's your time. Get out of it, for God's sake!" I sat up in my eagerness. I saw him waver.

'Take it easy, said the soldier. 'We will go more slowly. Here's a dry cigarette, smoke. Without turning round, he offered Yakob a cigarette, which he put behind his ear. They entered the village. It smelt of burning, like a gipsy camp. The road seemed to waver in the flickering of the flames, the wind howled in the timber. Yakob looked at the sky. Darkness and stars melted into one.

She still remained at the Allen House, rarely meeting her husband, who now spent a large part of his time in New York. The period fixed for a trial of the case between them was fast approaching. He continued resolute, and she did not waver from her purpose to defend her good name. The deep interest I took in the case, led me to see Mr.

In an instant the fiend in the girl woke again. "Do you expect me to believe that?" she hissed in a whisper, "after doing your best to cut me out with Jim Denton?" She glanced at the girl with a perfect storm of fury in her eyes, but Faith's glance did not waver; she only shook her head sadly.