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He remained with the captain during the time that the latter was giving his instructions in musketry entering upon his duties in connection with the corps by going down to the butts, and acting as marker and then returned with him to the cottage; as it was agreed that he had better remain there, quietly, until the corps was ready to march as, if he were to venture alone in the town, he might at any time be subject to a repetition of the attack upon the day of his arrival.
Barriers are made by felling trees in a line; or, in an open place, or upon a river or lake, placing a line of little trees in the snow about ten paces apart. Small evergreens with the butts no thicker than a man's thumb were often used; yet an artificial line of such brush was enough to turn moose or caribou and cause them to move forward in a certain direction where the hunters were hiding.
We can imagine Viola at once seeing through Malvolio's attempt at pleasing Olivia, instead of taking him for mad, as Olivia did. Which is the best lover, the Duke, Sebastian, Olivia, or Viola? Show how the droll situations of the play are mainly contrived by some of the characters in order to make others their laughing-stocks. Who are Sir Toby's butts?
He will charge the tree! He does not know that the tree has been growing for many years, and has become deeply rooted immovable. The wolf looks on and smiles. If the moose-calf butts the tree down, the wolf will get the squirrels and the calf. If the calf does not, the wolf will get the calf." MacNair ceased speaking and turned abruptly toward the river. "My!" Chloe Elliston exclaimed.
By way of contrast to the frivolous game of chance in the butts, the proceedings at the firing-point resolve themselves into a desperately earnest test of skill. The fortnight's range-practice is drawing to a close.
"Let me go!" growled the man. "So we meet again, Butts!" cried Joe. The man stared in amazement and then began to struggle. Seeing this, Joe doubled up his fists and gave him a blow in the nose and in the right eye, which caused him to roar with pain. "That's right!" came from the doorway of the cabin. "Give it to him! Make him give me my gold!" "Give up the gold," ordered Joe.
Wherever the spray struck, it turned instantly to frost, and the dipping boom of the spritsail was quickly fringed with icicles. The Alma strained and hammered through the big seas till the seams and butts began to spread, but in lieu of bailing the correspondents chopped ice and flung it overboard. There was no let-up.
All day long the men toiled at making coconut oil, and at night time they watched along the beaches for the hawk-bill turtle; the oil they put into huge butts, which stood in the king's boat-sheds, and the costly turtle-shell was taken by the young ruler and locked up in the seamen's chests which lined the inside wall of the great council-house.
Then all of a sudden Parker remembers that a man in a brown derby, with a coat turned inside out over his arm, who seemed to be in a hurry about something, came into the Clarenden along with him, and that a minute later in that Chinese room the same fellow butts into him. That gives me an idea, but I don't tell Parker what's on my mind.
Our main-mast was so badly wounded that the least additional injury would bring it down, and the fore-mast of the Duchess was in as bad a state. The fall of these masts might bring down others, and we should then lie perfect butts for the enemy to batter at, and his heavy guns might easily sink us.
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