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At worst, a comb with a bit of tissue paper is pressed into service. Another American who suffered an enforced voyage on an unterseeboot made public later some of his experiences. His captor's craft was a good sized one about 250 feet long, with a crew of 35 men and mounting two 4-1/2 inch guns. She could make 18 knots on the surface and 11 submerged and had a radius of 3200 miles of action.
The modern wedding breakfast, with its bridecake, is a survival from a very ancient mode of solemnizing the closest tie of all; and when Proserpine tasted a pomegranate she partook of a fruit of a specially symbolic character to signify acceptance of her new destiny as her captor's wife.
The Child's nose wrinkled in spite of himself at sight of this unalluring banquet, but he stared with all eyes. There was something terrifying to him in the swiftness and efficiency of the great hornet. Presently the grub, not having received quite a big enough dose of its captor's anaesthetic, came to under the devouring jaws and began to lash out convulsively.
His mind still running in the groove of his set purpose, before his captor's relaxed fingers had well loosed their grip, Macalister hurled himself across the trench and fastened his ferocious grip on the body of the officer. He rose to his feet, lifting the man with a jerking wrench, and swung him round.
Thus the sentence of a Prize Court, it is plain, is sufficient to confirm the captor's title to captures at sea; but a different rule applies to real property or immoveables.
But so cunningly did he twine and wreathe his body about his captor's that the death blow could not be struck. Erirola smiled, and the Buli grew angry. "Away with you!" he cried. "A nice story to go back to the coast a dozen of you and one missionary, without weapons, weak as a woman, overcoming all of you."
To his further amazement this had no effect upon his strange company at all, except that the three of them even the Indian opened their mouths and joined in that loud and incomprehensible din, to which one of them had given voice when he sank his teeth into his captor's leg on the mountainside. It was all tremendously puzzling to Muskwa.
Van Stuyler's unutterable horror, Zaidie said, with just the suspicion of a gasp in her voice: "There's one dissentient. We are prisoners, and I guess I'd better surrender at discretion." The next moment her captor's arm was round her waist, and Mrs.
No Power will incur the odium of sinking a prize with all hands, and their removal to the captor's ship takes time, especially in bad weather, and the presence of such prisoners in a cruiser in any number soon becomes a serious check on her fighting power. In the case of large ships, moreover, the work of destruction is no easy matter.
"Go away, Ruth. Hurry!" Her hand was on the latch of the door, but before she could open it the other door, that leading from the outer shop, opened and Leonard Grover came in. He stared at the picture before him at Ruth Armstrong's pale, frightened face, at Babbitt struggling in his captor's clutch, at Jed. "Why!" he exclaimed. "What is it?" No one answered. Phineas was the only one who stirred.
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