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"Have another try." A general groan and shudder passed through the row of carabineers. Each man had aimed aside, with a secret hope that the death-shot would come from his neighbour's hand, not his; and there the Gadfly stood and smiled at them; they had only turned the execution into a butchery, and the whole ghastly business was to do again.
"Yes, he might," said Fred; "or take you on the head which wouldn't be so pleasant. I'm not particular but I'd better run my chance myself with a chap that fired low." "There you're out," answered the brother. "The low shot's the death-shot.
Our intrenchments" You already heard what gulfs some of them were!" There are four intrenched knolls; 24 big batteries, capable of playing beautifully, all like pieces in a concert." Four knolls elaborately intrenched, clothed with cannon; founded upon FLATTER-mines: try where you will to enter, such torrents of death-shot will converge on you, and a concert of 24 big batteries begin their music!
But these which I bear are as certain as they are fatal. My own ears heard the death-shot, my own eyes beheld thy son's death thy son's funeral. My tongue bears witness to what my ears heard and my eyes saw."
He had received a death-shot from some unseen hand, and the mournful whoops of the savages gave token that they had lost a favorite warrior. The advantage thus gained was only momentary. The Indians slowly advanced in front and on the flank, and only the incessant fire of the scouts sufficed to keep them in check.
They were going to kill Jack where the Dillons said he had killed the sheep, and the boy jumped to his feet and ran up the hill a little way and disappeared in the bushes, that he might not hear Jack's death-shot, while Melissa sat where she was, watching the crowd come on.
From Bewley's bog, with slaughter red, A wanderer hither drew; And oft he stopp'd and turn'd his head, As by fits the night-winds blew. For trampling round by Cheviot-edge Were heard the troopers keen; And frequent from the Whitelaw ridge The death-shot flash'd between," &c. &c.
The giant on the mountain stands, His blood-red tresses deep'ning in the sun, With death-shot glowing in his fiery hands, And eye that scorcheth all it glows upon.
"Yes, sir," said Bremen, "that was her death-shot, I should think; but she is not dead yet, and may give us a great deal of trouble." They followed her as fast as they could on foot, and the dogs were soon upon her again; the animal continued to roar, and always from the same spot; so that it was evident she was severely wounded.
Then Cecil raised his hand, and gave the signal for his own death-shot. The levelled carbines covered him; ere they could fire a shrill cry pierced the air: "Wait! In the name of France!" Dismounted and breathless, Cigarette was by the side of Cecil, and had flung herself on his breast.
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