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For her father was concerned in this, and if he had any knowledge that Corrigan was stealing land if he was stealing it he was guilty as Corrigan. If he had no knowledge of it, she might be able to prevent the steal by communicating with him. "Trevison tell me?" laughed Levins, scornfully; "'Firebrand' ain't no pussy-kitten fighter which depends on women standin' between him an' trouble.
A man had been badly hurt; so badly that he would never know anything any more. They could have used him, only the superintendent had just passed that way and outstripped him. They were too busy, therefore, with sober work, too harmonious among themselves, to risk a firebrand. "A firebrand? Him!" He had tried to laugh again, but he knew that his laughter was hollow.
We found the Firebrand there, and the post office mail boat, with her red flag and white horse in it, and I went on board the corvette to deliver my official letter, detailing the incidents of the cruise, and was most graciously received by my captain.
The "dodge" was to dazzle the enemy with the electric light, and, while her attention was concentrated on the torpedo-boat, to "ram" her! "Steady!" said Firebrand, in a deep voice. Something else was replied by somebody in a deeper voice. The boat ploughed on its way like a furious hornet. "Fire!" shouted the Russians.
"I dare believe," Greatheart replied, "that, as the proverb is, he could have bit a firebrand, had it stood in his way; but the things with which he was oppressed no man ever yet could shake off with ease." See ante, ii. 298, note 4. Her sister's likeness as Hope nursing Love was painted by Reynolds. Northcote's Reynolds, i. 185.
Is there no one else? What curate lives with Father Malachi?" "There is none with him at Ballintubber. One Brosnan lives with Father Giles." "That man is a firebrand," said Mr. Blake. "He is a wretched politician, always preaching up Home Rule." "But I do not think that even he would teach a boy to deceive his own father in such a matter as this." "I am not sure," said Blake.
'What are you doing there, said her companion; 'and what makes you say that? During this dialogue Meg was heaping some flax loosely together. Before answer to this question she dropped a firebrand upon the flax, which had been previously steeped in some spirituous liquor, for it instantly caught fire and rose in a vivid pyramid of the most brilliant light up to the very top of the vault.
"Ah, yes!" sighed Firebrand; "the bubble reputation, you see, is being transferred from the cannon's mouth to the torpedo." I made no reply, for my mind reverted to my laboratory in Devonshire, where lay the working-model of the terrible weapon I had spent so much time in perfecting.
After this, the boats were frequently sent over, and by simply waving, a firebrand, sea-fowls invariably collected round them, so that they in a short time could kill as many with their sticks as would fill the boats. Not far off from the settlement was a sandy beach.
They kept up a constant fire for about two hours, when one of their largest vessels was blown up by a firebrand thrown from a Ladrone junk; after which they kept at a more respectful distance, but continued firing without intermission till the 21st at night, when it fell calm.
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