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The same shot took off the head of a man who was at the moment coming aft, at the other side of the deck. "Now, that's not fair!" exclaimed Billy; "aiming at me on purpose." "Then go and get me another spy-glass, and afterwards ask the doctor to stick a plaster on your cheek," said Desmond.
"He has an intellectual face, Biddy," observed her husband. "Pale just now, but it's 'the pale cast of thought. What are you aiming at, Piers?" "I don't know," was the reply, absently spoken. "Ah, but I'm sorry to hear that. You should have concentrated yourself by now, indeed you should. If I had to begin over again, I should go in for commerce." Piers gave him a look of interest. "Indeed?
Thus, through endeavoring to do well, my performance was very faulty; for aiming at expedition, I did all amiss.
The perch of Ned Hinkley, was a projection from the lowest of these ledges, running brokenly along the margin of the basin until lost in the forest slope over which Margaret Cooper had led her companion. If it was a task to try the best vigor and agility to say nothing of courage of the ablest mountaineer, to ascend the abrupt ledges from below, aiming at the highest point of elevation.
Then, after an interval of about an hour and a half, they again proceeded on their way, making better progress now than they did at first, as the undergrowth and trees became from this point steadily thinner as they progressed, until at length they were able to catch occasional glimpses of the summit for which they were aiming.
Now your graver gentry having little or no kind of chance in aiming at the one unless they laid hold of the other, pray what do you think would become of them?
He stepped quickly to one side to avoid the falling body and thrust his blade through a third man, who was aiming a blow at the neck of one of the commander's officers. There were only a dozen feet separating the commander from his objective, the palanquin of the Greatest Noble, but he had to wade through blood to get there. The palanquin itself was no longer steady.
There intervened, however, a happier period, one of transition, and in the third Anglo-Dutch war, 1672-1674, we seem to find a close approach to just proportion between regularity of formation and decisive tactical purpose; in which the principle of the line is recognized and observed, but is utilized by professional audacity for definite and efficient tactical action, aiming at conclusive results.
It burst with a tremendous noise well inside the Hug defenses, and this was followed by a terrific explosion. As the boys learned later the shell had landed in the midst of a concealed battery a stroke of luck, and not due to any good aiming on the part of the American gunner and the supply of ammunition had gone up.
Thus, for instance, Vanderbilt aiming to get control of a railroad at a low price, might very well have confederates among some of the directors or officials of that railroad who would resist or slyly thwart every attempt at improvement, and so scheme that the profits would constantly go down. As the profits decreased, so did the price of the stock in the stock market.
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