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"Stewed," replied the reporter, "their flesh is equal to the best venison! Gideon Spilett had not finished this exciting sentence when the sailor, followed by Neb and Herbert, darted on the kangaroos tracks. Cyrus Harding called them back in vain. But it was in vain too for the hunters to pursue such agile game, which went bounding away like balls.
Irma, was looking at the superscription of the letter, an the act of passing in her steps, when Luigi tore the curtains apart, and sprang on her arm like a cat. Before her shrieks could bring succour, Luigi was bounding across the court with the letter in his possession. A dreadful hug awaited him; his pockets were ransacked, and he was pitched aching into the street.
Handsome though the black-tail is, the white-tail is the most beautiful of all deer when in motion, because of the springy, bounding grace of its trot and canter, and the way it carries its head and white flag aloft. Before reaching the Mammoth Hot Springs we also saw a number of ducks in the little pools and on the Gardiner. Some of them were rather shy.
To see a woman rushing before a bull would have alarmed Rosalie for she would have felt it was unnatural; but for her father to be bounding wildly along in front of a bull seemed to her perfectly natural and ordinary and she was not in the least alarmed; only, as always, enthralled. Her father, while Rosalie watched him, was not in great danger.
It was well that I did so, for directly under me the infuriated animal was bounding from point to point, evidently in search of me and wondering where I had gone. Had I fallen back to the earth, instead of clinging to the branches, he would no doubt have crushed me to pieces with his powerful horns. "For some moments I lay quite helpless where I had been flung, watching what was passing below.
Curse them for fools and imbeciles. Fools never get into heaven. Thank the good Lord for that." It seemed to the quivering Americans that the gates were mocking them by drawing farther away instead of coming nearer. "Are we going backward?" groaned Truxton, his hands gripping the side of the bounding seat.
Appalled by the anguish expressed in the mother's cry, I was bounding up-stairs when my course was stopped by one of the most poignant sights it has ever been my lot to witness. Mrs.
Oh, how beautiful they are! Besides, the weather clears sometimes it has cleared this evening; and here are we, after a merry walk up the hill, almost as quick as in the winter, bounding lightly along the bright green turf of the pleasant common, enticed by the gay shouts of a dozen clear young voices, to linger awhile, and see the boys play at cricket.
But that instant Mary threw herself towards Alister, and his terrible blow came down upon her, and not upon the wolf, and she fell dead in his arms that's what Grizzie says and away went the wolf, leaping and bounding, and never uttering a cry.
"Good-bye!" he answered, waving his red handkerchief at them. Then he recited. "As you sail o'er the bounding sea, Pause now and then and think of me. I've many things for man and beast, From chocolate drops to compressed yeast." "Good!" shouted Will, laughing.
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