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The enraged guard turned to vent his anger upon the cause of his failure to kill the boatman, but when he beheld the half-witted being gazing up at the stars as unconcernedly as though nothing had happened, he remembered that the person of the boy was sacred. With a suppressed oath the guard resumed his weapon, and paced along the path that formed his post.
Now let us advance." So saying Cnut led the way upstairs, followed by the foresters, Cuthbert, as before, allowing five or six of them to intervene between him and the leader. He carried his short sword and a quarterstaff, a weapon by no means to be despised in the hands of an active and experienced player.
The wound was no wider than the smallest blade of a pocket-knife, but when I stripped the shirt away from the chest and left it bare, I found that the weapon, narrow as it was, had been long enough to reach his heart. There is no need to tell you how I felt as I stood by the body of this boy, for he was hardly older than a boy, or of the thoughts that came into my head.
The view was not clear, as the rays of the moon came over his shoulder, but the lad saw enough to satisfy him that the Indian carried a tomahawk and hunting-knife. However, as the other hand removed the pipe from between the leathern lips and held it, there was no instant intention of using either weapon.
It was from this iron weapon, upon which the city officers of justice took the oath when they entered on their duties, that the old wapentakes of the English police derived their qualification. Behind the man in the wig, the frightened landlord could just be perceived in the shadow.
For them, of course, a shotgun is the thing; but since such a weapon weighs many pounds, and its ammunition many more, I have come gradually to depend entirely on a pistol. The instrument is single shot, carries a six-inch barrel, is fitted with a special butt, and is built on the graceful lines of a 38-calibre Smith and Wesson revolver.
Are you big enough to do it?" "I am desperate enough to try," was the slow-spoken answer. "And when you have the weapon in your hands; when you have found the sword and sharpened it?" "Then I can go to his Excellency and tell him what will happen if he doesn't instruct his attorney-general in the quo warranto affair."
But the spokesman, disregarding his words, attempted to pass, whereupon without warning Boyd knocked him down with a clean blow to the face. At this the others yelled and rushed forward, only to be met by their foreman, who had snatched a bale-hook. It was an ugly weapon, and he used it so viciously that they quickly gave him room. "Now get to work," he ordered, quietly.
I discharged the barrels and laid the weapon away, only too glad to have it out of sight. Some years after the war, the Adjutant- General's department was investigated, and a shortage of arms was discovered. I received a letter asking me if I had a pistol belonging to the State. In the month of May, or early in June 1862, I received a message from Mr.
For the completion of this hope, he had but one resource the sword and the shield of the feeble cunning; and well he exercised his weapon. The ship lay within a quarter of a mile of the shore, and a boat was sent to procure water one man remaining always to fill the empty vessels while the others returned to the ship with those already filled.
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