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Updated: June 20, 2025
She awoke to the throb of the engines, and, gazing cautiously through her stateroom window, saw a glassy, level sea, with the sun brightly agleam on it. So this was Bering? She had clothed it always with the mystery of her school-days, thinking of it as a weeping, fog-bound stretch of gray waters.
"I think you will," nodded Barnabas grimly. "Pray sit down." "No!" "Why, then, we'll stand up for it," sighed Barnabas rising. "Now, sir, take up your pistol." "No!" "Then," said Barnabas, his teeth agleam, "as God's above, I'll shoot you where you stand but first I'll count three!" And once more he levelled the pistol he held. Mr.
For, high upon the roof, his mail agleam, his white robe whiter in the torch-glare, stood Friar Martin, while crouched behind him to left and right were many men in ancient and rusty armour, men grey-bearded and white of head, at sight of whom the roar of battle died down from sheer amaze until all men might hear the friar's words: "Come, ye men of Belsaye!" he cried, "all ye that do love wife or daughter or little child all ye that would maintain them innocent and pure follow me!"
They would ruin me if they could, but they can't do it, they can't do it. We have beaten them all, my lady. We have won!" He was sealing his letter, when, without warning, "Fingerless" Fraser appeared at his side, his fishlike eyes agleam, his colorless face drawn with anxiety.
David saw something lithe and sinuous in the child's hands, and stiffened in every limb. Paul had a skaapstikker in his grip, the green-and-yellow death-snake that abounds in the veldt. Its head lay on his arm, its pin-point eyes maliciously agleam, and the child gripped it by the middle. Christina stood petrified, but the boy laughed and dandled the reptile in glee.
Twice he halted Nigger and wheeled him, facing Manti, already agleam and tumultuous, almost yielding to his yearning to return and force his enemy to some sort of physical action, but each time he urged the horse on, for he could think of no definite plan.
"Meanin' that you're backin' Barbara in this here deal?" he demanded. "A real thoughtful man would have tumbled to it quicker," was Harlan's soft, ironical reply. For an instant Linton's gaze was intense with searching, probing inquiry. And Harlan's steady eyes were agleam with a light that was so quietly honest that it made Linton gasp: "Damn me! You mean it! You're playin' 'em straight, face up.
"We'll clean up on Lawler tonight, boys," he said. "We've got to work fast!" He stood, boldly outlined in the light, a sinister figure. His cruel lips were set tightly, his eyes were agleam. He was a symbol of passion, rampant and unrecking a wild, violent spirit to whom laws were irksome shackles. He grinned at Slade, mockingly, naked malevolence in his gaze. His voice was harsh, vibrant.
Like men in a daze, they stood watching the far-distant mass of walls, buildings, towers, battlements all agleam with the unmistakable sheen of pure metal. The human mind, confronted by such a phenomenon, fails to react, and for a while lies inert, stunned, prostrate. "Gold?" stammered the major, and fell to gnawing his mustache, as he stared at the incredible sight. "By God gold?
The king sat on an ebony stool, in a haze of wood smoke, muffled in a cape of monkey skin embroidered with steel beads; for while it was summer in America it was winter in his land. Behind him, in a wide semicircle against the wattled walls, sat his black councilors, war captains, and wives, their eyeballs and teeth agleam in the light cast up by the embers.
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