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'And you would have fired at me, you bloody-minded man? I cried. 'If you go to that, you seemed mighty reckless with your stick, said Dudgeon. 'Did I indeed? Well, well, 'tis all past history; ancient as King Pharamond which is another French word, if you cared to accumulate more evidence, says I. 'But happily we are now the best of friends, and have all our interests in common.

The bloody-minded heathens were so astonished and frightened by this strange Christian uproar, that they flung down their aims and ran for their lives! The Britons, instead of going on with their Hallelujahs, as I think they should have done, took after them with great fury slew thousands and drove thousands into the river, where they were drowned.

"Well, he begged so piteous to be allowed fo' to keep his hide, I hadn't the heart to strip it off," explained Mr. Yancy pleasantly. "And the winter's comin' onat this moment I can feel a chill in the air don't you-all reckon he's goin' to need it fo' to keep the cold out, Sho', you mustn't be bloody-minded!" "What was it about Mr. Slosson's hide, Uncle Bob?" demanded Hannibal.

"Not at all, sir," answered she; "I am not at all bloody-minded, only to our enemies; and there is no harm in that. To be sure it is natural for us to wish our enemies dead, that the wars may be at an end, and our taxes be lowered; for it is a dreadful thing to pay as we do.

As Trajan was going through Antioch, he saw this holy man, and sentenced him to be carried to Rome, there to be thrown to the lions for the amusement of the bloody-minded Romans.

'So we will, for sartin, says I. 'Let's put out th' light, so th' bloody-minded murderer won't ha' narthin' to go by if he ain't seen it yet. So we put out th' light and stayed theer till th' mornin', when we went out to work, and then when I seed Dick later we thowt we'd come and tell you all about it, seein' as yower a gentleman, and in consiquence a man of larnin', and might p'rhaps tell us what we'd better do."

"Don't be so bloody-minded. Hark! there is a scream!" The captain looked out, applying an epithet to Mrs. Hargrave that only the exigency of the case could excuse. He said, "Here she comes, and I make no doubt the whole body of them after her. You'll find lots of bottles and kegs on the right hand side within the waterfall. Whatever you do think of water.

To the courage and enterprise of the commanders of whalers all credit is due for working the rapid change in these once bloody-minded savages, and forming safe and commodious harbours for their vessels to refit in: this have they done in a part of the world lately looked upon with horror.

"You mention that some of the Ralston family are in Boston on a visit, and that Mr. Codman is attached to Eliza. Once in my life, you know, if you had told me this and I had been a very bloody-minded young man, who knows but Mr. Codman might have been challenged. But I suppose he takes advantage of my being in England.

Then we'll be certain to hit the spot." Richard picked up the compass, and rubbed the polished sides of the nut in which it was set. "I'll keep this out instead of a nickel. I wonder what the fellow's name was that this D. D. stands for?" Half an hour later two bloody-minded sea-robbers slipped through the back gate of the Milford place and took their stealthy way out into the dunes.