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Updated: June 3, 2025
It made his head reel merely to gaze down into those awful depths. It could not be bridged; no sacrifice, no compensation might ever undo that fatal death-shot. He did not blame her, he did not question her justification, but he understood together they faced the inevitable. There was no escape, no clearing of the record.
So have certain brave soldiers been known to smile in face of a death-shot. He advanced with his usual languid step and nonchalant air, and removing his cap, bowed gravely and courteously. "Let me be the first to offer my congratulations to the future Lady Errington! Phil, old man! . . . I wish you joy!"
This was all the mercy they could give to spare him the sight of his friend's slaughter. Cecil's eyes strained in him with one last, longing look; then he raised his hand and gave the signal for his own death-shot. The leveled carbines covered him; he stood erect with his face full toward the sun. Ere they could fire, a shrill cry pierced the air. "Wait! In the name of France."
While still beardless, I have ruled bearded soldiers by a discipline whose sanctions were the death-shot and the bastinado; and when I left the camp and court, it was for colleges where a beardless face is never seen. "I cannot believe," Eveena answered, taking me, as usual, to the letter, "that you will ever draw the zone too tight.
It was also here, but not on this occasion, that the poet first became acquainted with the Albanian belief in second-hearing, to which he alludes in the same poem: Deep in whose darkly-boding ear The death-shot peal'd of murder near. "This superstition of a second-hearing," says Lord Byron, "fell once under my own observation. I rode up and inquired. 'We are in peril! he answered.
Her welcome of her death-shot was the only untruth that had ever soiled her fearless lips. Death was terrible; yet she was content content to have come to it for his sake. There was a ghastly, stricken silence round her. The order she had brought had just been glanced at, but no other thought was with the most callous there than the heroism of her act, than the martyrdom of her death.
Byron proposed to express his opinion, to say what he dad-burned pleases, though the redoubtable Lieutenant-Colonel Rienzi Miltiades Johnsing, of Houston, who does all the ICONOCLAST'S fighting under yearly contract, should swoop down upon him like a double-barreled besom of destruction, "With death-shot glowing in his fiery hand And eye that scorcheth all it looks upon."
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