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The Roman Empire, formerly sold by auction to the highest bidder, and the Turkish emperors, whose necks are exposed every day to the bowstring, show us in very bloody characters the blindness of those men that make authority to consist only in force. But why need we go abroad for examples when we have so many at home?
He laid the notch of the arrow on the oxhide bowstring, and drew both notch and string to his breast till the arrow-head was near the bow; then when the bow was arched into a half-circle he let fly, and the bow twanged, and the string sang as the arrow flew gladly on over the heads of the throng.
My people discovered the sacrilege, and" he added with intent "gave that Greek the bowstring, then quartered the body and threw it to the vultures." "That is of no importance whatever, Rrisa," answered the Master with an odd smile. "What thy people do to the unbeliever, if they capture him, is nothing to me. For dost thou see? they must first make the capture.
"`Das good, says I; `an' you better look out an' obey your orders, else de bowstring bery soon go round your pritty little neck. But tell me, Angelica, who brought me here? "`De Dey ob Algiers an' all his court, says she, wid a larf dat shut up her eyes an' showed what a enormous mout' she hab. "`Is he all safe, Angelica, says I `massa, I mean?
One morning they had spent the previous night out here in the hills they awoke to find a fresh trail in the bear-grass within a hundred yards of where they had been sleeping, and in the middle of the track Dick Gird picked up one of the rawhide wristlets which Apaches wore to protect their arms from the bowstring. That day Ed Schiefflin discovered a new outcropping.
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 bowstring, and striking it at the same time with a stick. These are a sort of travelling bards and musicians, who sing extempore songs in praise of those who employ them. A fuller account of them will be given hereafter. December 15th.
The sign was prophetic, and in an instant all his doubts vanished. "Christ is triumphant!" he cried. The words were still on his lips when he heard the creaking of a bowstring. An arrow flashed before him, struck against the peak of his helmet and fell at his feet upon the deck. Then he saw the cloaked figure of a man steal quickly away into the shadow of the sails.
"What is the meaning of these words?" replied Joshua, convinced that she had just fitted to the bowstring another shaft intended to wound him.
"'Moke-icha liked your cooking so well, he said to the turkey girl, 'that she was eating the basket also. I have brought it back to you. There he stood shifting from one foot to another and Willow-in-the-Wind turned taut as a bowstring. "'Oh, she said, 'Moke-icha has eaten it!
The right of acting as umpire in wrestling-matches was vested in his family, that the "Driving Wind" might for future generations preside over athletic sports. In ancient days, the prizes for the three champion wrestlers were a bow, a bowstring, and an arrow: these are still brought into the ring, and, at the end of the bout, the successful competitors go through a variety of antics with them.
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