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Updated: May 29, 2025
Their ornaments are ear-rings, made of tortoise-shell and bracelets. A curious one of the latter, four or five inches broad, wrought with thread or cord, and studded with shells, is worn by them just above the elbow. Round the right wrist they wear hogs' tusks, bent circular, and rings made of shells; and round their left, a round piece of wood, which we judged was to ward off the bow-string.
Round the middle of the rod was looped a bow-string kept taut by a strong bow. By grasping the bow in his right hand and sawing it back and forth, the operator caused the rod to whirl round, first one way and then the other, with great velocity.
But I am a teetotaller, said the divinity-student in a subdued tone; not noticing the enormous length of the bow-string the young fellow had just drawn. He took up his hat and went out. I think you have worried that young man more than you meant, I said.
He himself awaited her coming he who had never left her thoughts since that first arrow came to her from his bow-string. His eyes burned with warm fires, as she approached, but his lips said simply: "I have crossed the Tulameen River."
"I wasn't," she said sharply, "I don't tell lies " her hand shot from his waist and she slid suddenly to the ground. He pulled in his horse and turned a bewildered face. She had lighted on her feet and was poised back above him like an enraged eaglet her thin nostrils quivering, her mouth as tight as a bow-string, and her eyes two points of fire. "Why June!"
We were amused by an itinerant SINGING MAN, who told a number of diverting stories, and played some sweet airs by blowing his breath upon a bow-string, and striking it at the same time with a stick. December 15. At daybreak my fellow-travellers, the Serawoollies, took leave of me, with many prayers for my safety.
But all was of no avail, and he knew not which way to turn, when one of those events occurred which are so frequent under Turkish despotisms. A courier arrived at the court of the Sultan, bearing the ring of his sovereign, the mighty Agrapard, Caliph of Arabia, and bringing the bow-string for the neck of Gaudisso.
That potentate entreated Nigel to make fast the doors behind him, and, pointing to the female who sat by the expiring fire with her limbs outstretched, like one whom the hand of Death had already arrested, he whispered, "Mind your hits, and mind your bargain, or I will cut your bow-string for you before you can draw it."
And he replied, 'The rainbow to haul by. Then she asked him yet again, 'What has he for a bow-string? And he answered, 'Ke'taksoo wowcht; 'The Spirits' or Ghosts' Road. And once more she inquired, 'What has he on his sled? To which he said, 'A beaver. Then she knew that he could indeed see."
And taking her feet of red soles, bearing auspicious marks, the twins began to press them gently with their hands, scarred by the bow-string. How, long-armed one, will Krishna pass over them? Thereupon Bhima said, 'O king, I myself shall carry thee, together with this princess and these bulls among men, the twins; therefore, O king of kings, resign not thy mind unto despair.
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