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Gentlemen, this is how I would indulge them!" He raised a closed fist and brought it down on the board. He spoke to Tories, but he forgot that Tories were Americans. In those days only the meanest of the King's party would listen to such without protest from an Englishman. But some of the meaner sort were there: Philip and Tom laughed, and Mr. Allen, and my Lord's sycophants.
I should have fancied that I had run athwart a tree, but for the recollection, as I was reeling to the ground, of a hulk of a fellow suddenly fronting me, and he did not hesitate with his fist. I went over and over into a heathery hollow. The wind sang shrill through the furzes; nothing was visible but black clumps, black cloud.
"Somebody must have taken it," said Franz, as Tommy shook his fist at the whole party, and wrathfully declared that, "By thunder turtles! if I get hold of the thief, I'll give him what he won't forget in a hurry." "Keep cool, Tom; we shall find him out; thieves always come to grief," said Dan, as one who knew something of the matter.
She patted and evened, laid collars and cuffs one above another with a sprinkle of drops, just from her finger-ends, between, and then gave a towel a nice equal shower with a corn-whisk that she used for the large things, and rolled them up in it, hard and fast, with a thump of her round pretty fist upon the middle before she laid it by.
We walked in silence together. I did not know how to part from him. On the quay he let go my arm and struck fiercely his fist into the palm of his other hand. "By God, it isn't fair!" he cried again. "Don't you ever marry unless you can chuck the sea first. . . . It isn't fair."
It was perhaps lucky for the commodore, who was capital at casting a pickerel line, but who usually settled his polemics with the fist, when hard pushed, that Captain Truck found leisure to come to the rescue.
Show 'em that this State House is always open to decent citizens. Show 'em that you, as officeholders, don't need machine-guns to back you up in your stand." He emphasized each declaration by a resounding thump of his fist on the table. "Show 'em that it's a square deal, and that your cuffs are rolled up when you deal!
He was crouching on the edge of the timber jam and glowering his hatred at us. We were badly frightened, for here was no narrow-mouthed cave for refuge. But the twenty feet of water that intervened gave us temporary safety, and we plucked up courage. Red-Eye stood up erect and began beating his hairy chest with his fist. Our two logs were side by side, and we sat on them and laughed at him.
"They work; and that is what you and no one else does here!" shouted Tom, bringing his fist down heavily on the table. He was beginning to feel the effects of the rum. "What's that about work? Do you mean to say ?" began the Swede. "Hold your jaw!" cried Tom. "Let the old un have his say!" "You are quite wrong, Martin," said Begmand, and this time without stammering.
At last the Archbishop lost his patience and cried out: 'What will you do? What will you do? Cromwell swung his figure round before him. 'I will discover what Cleves will do in this matter, he said. 'All dependeth therefrom. 'Nay; make a peace with Rome, Cranmer uttered suddenly. 'I am weary of these strivings. But Wriothesley clenched his fist.