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For a while the Congo forests fended away the restless, but this only temporarily. On the whole Africa from the Sahara to the Cape offered no great physical barrier to the invader, and we continually have whirlwinds of invading hosts rushing now southward, now northward, from the interior to the coast and from the coast inland, and hurling their force against states, kingdoms, and cities.
At any rate, we should have been taken in a highly unsoldier-like fashion if Mrs. Treacher hadn't kept her eye lifting. She gave the alarm, and we scuttled into the bushes like rabbits, and watched while she held the gate. What is more, I believe she would have fended off the danger if Sergeant Archelaus hadn't sneezed; and then oh, then! " Vashti paused, her eyes brimful of laughter.
"YAY!" Sam cried, and sought to wrest it from him. Roddy joined the scuffle, trying to retain the horn; but Penrod managed to secure it. With one free hand he fended the others off while he blew into the mouthpiece. "Let me have it," Sam urged. "You can't do anything with it. Lemme take it, Penrod." "No!" said Roddy. "Let ME! My goodness! Ain't I got any right to blow my own horn?"
In the retreat of a great host ah, me! retreat was his very word and the host was Dixie's retreating after its first battle, and that an awful one, in deluging rains over frightful roads and brimming streams, unsheltered, ill fed, with sick and wounded men and reeling vehicles hourly breaking down, a hovering foe to be fended off, and every dwelling in the land a hospitable refuge, even captains of artillery or staff might be most honorably and alarmingly missing yet reappear safe and sound.
He steadied and fended with his left hand and held the girl firmly against him with his right. She clung to him and did not whimper or struggle. A group of men, unhampered by any duty with the ropes, crouched and waited on the very edge of the cliff. At last they reached out and down, clutched the skipper and his burden, and with a mighty roar dragged them to safety.
And at every fresh exchange of words, while she laughed and fended, and fended and laughed, along with this passivity came a yet more appalling perversity; a passivity and perversity as of delirium, and as horrid to her as to me, though I little thought so then. We came where a line of dense woods on our left marked the bottom-lands of Morgan's Creek.
"I know," said Mr. Manning, with entirely suitable emotion. "And think of the ordinary wives and mothers, with their anxiety, their limitations, their swarms of children!" Mr. Manning displayed distress. He fended these things off from him with the rump of his fourth piece of cake.
Fended by Parmenio from the Hellespontine shore, it did the best it could by waiting on the farther bank of the Granicus, the nearest considerable stream which enters the Marmora, in order either to draw Alexander's attack, or to cut his communications, should he move on into the continent. It did not wait long.
The friendship may perish from some other cause a marriage, or success in life, one of the two great severers but that salved quarrel is more than likely to recur and kill at last. These two had never fallen out. And it was the woman who, contrary to custom, fended the quarrel now. "Oh! because I have been here three nights in succession, I suppose, and did not find you here. I was disappointed."
He had, it seemed, to shake her back into the story of her love-affair. Three times he approached the subject, and each time she fended it off. They had passed clear into the Mission, were more than three-quarters of the way home, before he launched one of his frontal assaults. "You might give me some more work at my job of confidant," he said.
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