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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Oh, mercy! hear the girl!" cried Marguerite, raising her hands in tender appeal. "I tell you it's the truth; I will ask Helen if it is not so," cried the speaker turning to the latter for answer. "I must confess that to a certain extent Josie is not far astray. I have seen exhibitions of cross-firing not strictly in accordance with one's ideas of a gentleman.
We ought to do our work here without unnecessary cross-firing from our friends. There's enough of that from our foes." "What right had you to enter my room?" she rejoined stubbornly. "I am not in your room. Something call it anything you like made us meet on this neutral ground." "You might have waited till morning," she replied perversely. "In the morning I shall be far from here.
The British gunners manoeuvred in all directions in order to locate that particularly dangerous piece of ordnance. They blazed at it in batteries; they tried to find it by means of cross-firing; they lined men up on the sky-line of kopjes to draw the fire; they limbered up and galloped far out on the veldt, until the enemy's rifle fire drove them in again; but all in vain.
'True, rejoined another: 'he can drink his way through a democratic canvass, tell the most amiable lies, absorb any amount of chaffing, and stands less at swearing than any other man in the country: more than all, he can demolish the King's English at a stroke. Such pulling, hauling, squeezing and yawning, 'cussin' and swearing such cross-firing, crooked joking, and slang jibes, never before was seen in such perfect medley.
When their ammunition was gone, they rolled the little gun down the hill, where we, after the action, found it. Our troops having been distributed and posted along the range of hills, some of our men were killed and wounded by each other, by their cross-firing at random, where they heard the sound of muskets, but could not see the object.
After further questioning, she at last replied: My first husband's name was John Bethune. What is the name of your present husband? That is not your business. Is he here in court. He is. He represents me here. What is his first name? After a great deal of cross-firing the answer was elicited that it was George Bethune. Were you ever married to George Bethune, the one who is now in court?
The blue lines were mowed down in swaths as though the giant figure of Death had suddenly swung his scythe from the fog banks in the sky. Again and again came those awful volleys of musketry and artillery cross-firing on the rushing lines. The men staggered and recovered, reformed and charged again over the dead bodies of their comrades carrying the crest for a moment.
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