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For dawn had just broken and she saw that she was standing in a small open space in the midst of a sandalwood scrub, and encircled by twenty or thirty ferocious-looking myall blacks all armed with spears and waddies. The strong ant-like odour which emanated from their jet-black skins filled her nostrils and, putting her hands to her eyes, she shuddered and fell upon her knees with a choking sob.
They were both sturdy, ferocious-looking fellows, but one of them was a veritable giant. "Behold my bodyguard!" said my magnificent friend, with the usual possessive wave of his hand; "my Switzers, my Janissaries, so to say." The negroes stopped working, touched their great straw hats, and flashed their splendid teeth in a delighted smile.
Now I tried to speak once more, but the Spaniard who had struck me, a ferocious-looking villain, drew his sword and swore that he would run me through if I dared to open my lips. So I thought it well to keep silent. 'This Englishman would grace a yardarm very well, he said.
Mackintosh bestowed upon him a knowing wink. "Sounds like a nom de plume," he chuckled. "What was your line?" "I don't understand." "What did you serve time for? Shoplifting?" "Oh, no," said the other calmly. "Burglarizing?" With more respect in his tones. "What do you think?" queried the caller in the same mild voice. "Not ferocious-looking enough for that lay, I should have thought.
Presently the huge head of a ferocious-looking animal appeared glaring at us from among the grass. We shouted lustily for help to our friends. "Let's run, it is a lion I told you so," cried Jerry; "no time to lose, if we don't wish to be eaten up!"
"And Pauline?" she asked. "Pauline, unfortunately, is amongst the cursed," he answered. "That, I suppose," she remarked, "is what brings you so close together." "It is a bond of common suffering," he declared. "By the bye, who is this ferocious-looking person?"
But Leucha had come back unexpectedly, and her conduct to Hollyhock had so roused the ire of that generally good-natured girl that she made up her mind that no change should now take place in the programme. Besides the ordinary cat and dog, there was one ferocious-looking beast managed with great skill, a lion. A very tall girl in the school took this part.
Ned remembered what Felicia had said about her soldiers, and he did not know how very different were these disciplined regulars from the great mass of the levies which were to be encountered by the troops of the United States. He was admiring them and he was thinking of battles and generals, when one of the most ferocious-looking members of the mob came jauntily sauntering along beside him.
The carriage door was thrown open and the Russian Baron Blomonozoff came out a thin, ferocious-looking little man, with a red face, encircled by a red beard and red hair, of all of which it would be difficult to say which was reddest. He was followed by the beautiful Adonis, the Count de Volaski, looking very fair and dainty, very languid and melancholy.
This was getting monotonous, and the two visitors were thinking of withdrawing, when the door suddenly opened, and a dead silence prevailed. The new-comer was the dirtiest and most ferocious-looking of all the boys in the lower school, who rushed into the room breathless, and in what would have been a white heat had his face been clean enough to show it.
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