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Suddenly he calmed, stepped up to Leo, and wrenched the rifle from his grasp. "I will do that!" he cried, and held the weapon out at arms-length in front of his face with both hands; but there was no answering shot. "Why does it not bark?" he demanded, turning to Leo sternly. "It will only bark at my bidding," said Leo, with a significant smile.
Rigidly, at arms-length, he held her, moment after moment, immovable, implacable; and when he read death in her empurpled face, a miraculous thing happened. The "blind" eye of Sin Sin Wa opened! A husky rattle told of the end, and he dropped the woman's body from his steely grip, disengaging the pigtail with a swift movement of his head.
She was naturally a lady of the mildest good breeding: she was mistress of every bland conventionality in the English language but disasters and dramatic influences combined, threw even this harmless matron off her balance at last. For the first time in her life Mrs. Marrable indulged in vehement gesture, and used strong language. She handed the letter sternly, at arms-length, to her daughter.
I was a novice, and used to listen with open eyes and ears to the strange and wild stories told by the old hunters, and believed everything I heard. Some of their stories bordered upon the supernatural. They believed that their rifles might be spellbound, so as not to be able to kill a buffalo, even at arms-length.
It is true, bows and arrows are beggarly things against muskets, in a fight at arms-length, but at close quarters, knives and tomahawks can do somewhat." "But, good Philip," said the Knight, "thy words convey little information. Canst not be more precise?"
"Here I am, mother darling, safe and sound, right side up with care, and oh, so glad to be at home again!" Mrs. Kingston returned the fond embrace with interest, and then held Frank off at arms-length to see how much he had changed during his six months' absence. She found him both taller and stouter, and with his face well browned by the exposure to the bright spring sunshine.
Miss Meredith began anew on the buttonhole, and had she been thrusting her needle into either man or dog, she could not have sewed with a more vicious vigour. "That must be the way he got those rabbits for thy mother." "I should know he had been a poacher," asserted Janice, as she contemptuously held up and surveyed at arms-length the completed shirt.
She set her teeth to walk easily and straightly, but constantly the jog of his elbow on her shoulder or the swing of his hand against her blouse sent her ambling wretchedly arms-length from him. When this had occurred half a dozen times she could have plumped down on the grass and wept loudly and without restraint.
His train leaves in a little over an hour. He's dropping in here in ten minutes." "Why, I didn't know you even wrote to each other," I said. Ruth came over to the table and sat down in a low chair, stretching out her folded hands arms-length along the table's surface, and leaning toward us. "I'm going to tell you two about it," she announced with finality.
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