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Updated: June 12, 2025
The shrill shriek of a Great Northern locomotive, trundling freight cars through the gloom, gave the death-stroke to the old boy-dream. It was the cry of modernity.
Desperate and frequent were the struggles within gangways so narrow that nothing but daggers could be used, so obscure that the dim lanterns hardly lighted the death-stroke. They seemed the conflicts, not of men but of evil spirits. Nor were these hand-to-hand battles all.
By a common impulse the men fell upon each other with their knives, and Warner soon had his enemy in a position to give him the death-stroke, but Dabney began to bellow for quarter. "My brother cried for quarter at Paoli," answered the other, "and you struck him to the heart." "I have a wife and child. Spare me for their sakes." "My brother had a wife and two children.
The death-stroke he had dealt all unwittingly, in heedless passion, rose before his soul day and night as an accursed and bloody deed; and every moment embittered by his wife's unfaith, even to the last hour when, on her death-bed, she cursed him, he lived through again, night after night.
"I know who wrote it." "You know who wrote it? Who?" There was terrible anger in his voice now. "I decline to answer." "So you give me not even the benefit of a doubt! You believe it!" Patty was less observant than usual. "Will you please go now? I do not think there is anything more to be said." "No. I will go." He spoke quietly, but like a man who has received his death-stroke.
"The arrangement," wrote his friend, Lord Radstock, "will be a death-stroke to his hopes of the galleons; but as your chief has ever showed himself to be as great a despiser of riches as he is a lover of glory, I am fully convinced in my own mind that he would sooner defeat the French fleet than capture fifty galleons."
From his birth, now in this Prussian Journey of our Crown-Prince, to his death-stroke on the Field of Jena, what a seventy-one years! Fleury and the Kaiser, though it is long before the signature and last finish can take place, are come to terms of settlement, at the Crown-Prince's return; and it is known, in political circles, what the Kaiser's Polish-Election damages will probably amount to.
He reckoned, if it should accept his offers, to determine the Turks to retreat and to effect a peace which, by bringing the imperial crown into his house, would have been the death-stroke for Austria. All these combinations miscarried through the devotedness of the Poles.
Reeks now freedom's final victim's blood; Rome o'er Brutus' bier feels her death-throe, He seeks Minos. Back to thy dark flood! CAESAR. Oh, the death-stroke Brutus' sword then hurled! Thou, too Brutus thou? Could this thing be? Son! It was thy father! Son! the world Would have fallen heritage to thee! Go 'mongst Romans thou art deemed immortal, For thy steel hath pierced thy father's breast.
After long swaying, poised for the death-stroke, the serpent would decide that the menacing thing before it was not alive. It would slowly dissolve its tense coils, and glide away; and Grôm would resume his shadowy progress. He had crept in to within a hundred yards or so of the Council Rock, which was surrounded by a horde of the Bow-legs.
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