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Updated: May 11, 2025
Two or three men came hurrying back with the ropes, and one of them was dexterously thrown across a branch of the tree. Then the boys distributed themselves along both ends of the rope. "Easy!" screamed the captain. "Plenty of time. I'll give the word. When I say, 'Now, pull quick and all together. I won't be long."
From this, and many other circumstances which might be adduced, the boasted wisdom of the Chinese is nothing more than the science of dexterously hiding their robberies from the inspection of the law: In which, perhaps, they are as much exceeded by some northern nations as in the use of the compass, of which they pretend to be the original inventors, and perhaps with justice; but both in the management of the compass, and in this political trade of pirating, they are equally clumsy.
"Give me fifty blows of a stick, as your officers gave you last week for stealing his gun from a new soldier?" A growl like a lion's from the badgered Barbe-Grise shook the walls; she had cast her mischievous stroke at him on a very sore point; the unhappy young conscript's rifle having been first dexterously thieved from him, and then as dexterously sold to an Arab.
"Now for the fashion department." Mrs. Whitney whirled the paper over dexterously. "Do you know, Mrs. Chatterton, gray stuffs are to be worn more than ever this spring?" "I don't care about that," said Mrs. Chatterton quickly, "and besides, quite likely there'll be a complete revolution before spring really sets in, and gray stuffs will go out. Find some description of tea gowns, can't you?
They see a bird of one kind diving and bringing to the surface a fish, which another, of a different species, snatches from it and bears aloft, in its turn to be attacked by a third equally rapacious winged hunter, that, swooping at the robber, makes him forsake his ill-gotten prey, while the prey itself, reluctantly dropped, is dexterously re-caught in its whirling descent long ere it reaches its own element the whole incident forming a very chain of tyranny and destruction!
Just before he passed, at twenty or thirty feet from her, the lasso shot from his hand, uncoiling as it flew, and in an instant its loop was round her horns. "Well cast!" said Dick, as he galloped up to her side and dexterously disengaged the lasso. "Now for a horse on the run!" He had the good luck to find one, presently, grazing in a pasture at the road-side.
"Go rope a new pony out of that band Hesitation's just brought up. And be mighty careful not to get an outlaw. Hess says there's two or three in that band that are fresh out of the hills." These side remarks excited Walter. The girls, too, were interested. Grace said she hoped there was not any horse as bad as the pony that ran away at Lakeview, and which Rhoda had stopped so dexterously.
She thanked me for coming to see her, and added that I had come to disturb her peace of mind. "I am quite ready, dearest, to climb the harden wall, and I shall do it more dexterously than your wretched humpback." "Alas! that may not be, for, trust me, you are already spied upon. Everybody here is sure that we knew each other at Aix.
Ere she was aware of his intention, he pushed the ottoman beyond her reach, and dexterously catching her hand, took the gold thimble from her finger and dropped it into his vest pocket. "Perish the fetich of needle-work, crochet and knitting! To-day at least it shall not come between us; and I claim your eyes, your undivided attention.
This is like Merry-Andrew on the low rope copying lubberly the same tricks which his master is so dexterously performing on the high. I will trouble your lordship but with one objection more, which I know not whether I found in Le Febvre or Valois, but I am sure I have read it in another French critic, whom I will not name because I think it is not much for his reputation.
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