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Because the prey has horns, and if the tiger tried to attack it from the front, the prey would gore the tiger with its horns and perhaps kill the tiger. So the tiger creeps toward the prey from the side or the back. As the prey cannot run very fast, the tiger does not trouble to stalk it all the way.
It is now the fashion to attack this idol of a bygone generation on every point, and with the most unrelenting and partial hostility.
Discovering the open fields, you at once directed Steele to move to the right and front, and pushed Stuart out so as to fully command them and the field-work of the enemy extending from the fort, to prevent farther strengthening, as it was evident these works were the product of a recent thought. At ten o'clock you sent me to McClernand to ascertain why the delay of attack.
Perhaps a short rest, strengthening food, refreshing wine, might restore to these men their lost strength. And now for the first time since the attack of the enemy did Gotzkowsky turn toward his home; but not to visit his daughter, not to inquire after his property, but to open his wine-cellars, and to let his cashier fill his pockets with gold.
No Kureisch could run the risk of alienating so great a number of fellow-citizens, and a personal attack upon Abu Talib's nephew could but have that result.
The Senator took his place; while the young man, with sparkling eyes and firm step, advanced several paces in the direction of the forest whence came theories of the jaguar. There he halted to receive the attack that appeared inevitable. Don Estevan and he appeared motionless as a pair of statues.
You could set them out in companies and battalions; they opened their ranks to attack, stormed, were wounded, and fell. Sometimes they lay down fatigued and slept on the field of battle. But a new box that came one day made the old ones lose all value for me. For the soldiers in the new box were proper soldiers, with chests and backs, round to the touch, heavy to hold.
Women will always feel for thee!" It went in like a knife it was so true . "I was a very fine Englishman once," I said. "It is possible, thou art still, sitting, and showing the right profile and full of chic and then rich, rich!" "You could not forget that I am rich, Suzette?" "If I did I might love you Jamais!" "And does the sea help to prevent an attack?"
I suggested that the question was an unfair one. "You know how you would answer it yourself, sir." I have spoken of you with the doctor," he said, looking at me kindly for the first time, "and I shall let you go. By rights you ought to go to Pretoria. Of course your general may come and attack us here, and your information will be useful, but we are strong enough for all the English.
The shady side of the wide communication trench was exposed to shrapnel, which the Turks had kept up more or less continually since the failure of their night attack. Against the opposite bank lay a body, half-covered by a blanket, and the padre was quietly removing the dead man's identification disc and the contents of his pockets.
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