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Updated: June 14, 2025
By whose hand the fire-brand had been applied, no man could tell. An accident, or the first of the promised warnings? this I asked myself, and I strove hard to believe that it was ill-luck and nothing more. "Another full week passed, and I began to hope that the threatened persecution had indeed been abandoned.
It blew across his sheltered soul like a draught, an uncomfortable, cold-producing draught and when he found himself applauding with the others, he knew that something dangerous, radical, subtle and evil had been let loose the girl would have to be watched. She was a fire-brand, an incendiary she would put notions in peoples' heads. It was well he had heard her and could sound the warning.
You struck the right note when you said, 'Now is the time to enforce authority. It must be done sharply too, and these people taught the difference between the Yanks' incendiary talk and our rights and positive commands. From what Perkins says, this old Uncle Lusthah is a fire-brand among your people. Give your overseer his orders and I'll see that he carries them out."
Charley followed up the attack with another fire-brand, and Philip with his axe dealt him a blow on the side of his head which almost stunned him. Another such blow would have finished the career of Bruin, but as Philip was lifting his weapon Harry cried out, "O dear, dear, the hut is on fire!"
"If thou 'rt the man of it, I 'm the woman, and thou and Zeb will both have to do as I say," retorted Nancy, "or else mayhap I 'll get thee no dinner! Mother said I could make succotash, and thou lov'st that better than anything. Mother said above all things not to let the fire go out, for it would be hard to bring a fire-brand all the way from the village.
A slight change of wind would be their destruction, and a single stray fire-brand would endanger them. Just as they began to breathe somewhat freely, hoping that danger was past, a sudden side-eddy of the gale scattered a shower of sparks and burning shingles over the house and out-buildings. Mr.
He could not have held out long against the strength of the hyena; but it was just at that moment that Swartboy came up with his fire-brand, and beat off the ravisher with a shower of blows. When they got back to the light of the fire they found that Jan was all right. But the poor ourebi it had been sadly mauled, and was now of no more value than a dead rat.
Yes, Diego; I had but to stretch out my hand thus, and that foolish fire-brand of a heretic muchacha would have vanished from Todos Santos forever. I could have left you in your fool's paradise, and one morning you would have found her gone. I should have condoled with you, and consoled you, and you would have forgotten her as you did the other.
His eyes grew a little brighter, and his nostrils spread, but with a sweep of his arm he added, still quietly: "Y' all know whut he's done." The gesture lighted memories of personal wrongs in every breast; he had tossed a fire-brand among fagots, and an angry light began to burn from the eyes that watched him.
I raised my eyes to the bright sun, which had risen over the plain, and was smiling at my despair. The hideous wretch came running with the fire-brand. The braves leaped, danced, and whooped. I closed my eyes. Then a sharp, shrill yell pierced the air, and in another moment something touched my neck. It was not the scorching flames I dreaded. I opened my eyes.
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