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So she sat serene through a five-second stage wait while Quan frantically spun the pages of his book to find the place he ought to have been following of course, but he'd yielded to the temptation of trying to do something else at the same time and had got lost and then dry-throated, incapable of a sound for a couple of seconds more hours they seemed after she had been identified as the culprit who had failed to come in on a cue.
All the time, under a full head of steam, Winslow was rushing toward his enemy for the death grapple. Still in peril of being raked, he now sheered when half a mile distant and fired his broadside of five-second shells, at the same time endeavoring to pass under the Alabama's stern, but Semmes defeated the manoeuvre by also sheering his vessel.
The port-holes in the turret were all closed, with the exception of the one at which the captain stood, and, of course, no one could see what was going on. Frank began to grow impatient. He did not like the idea of being shot at in that manner without returning the fire. At length the captain inquired: "What have you in your gun, Mr. Nelson?" "A five-second shell, sir," answered Frank, promptly.
She cried for about three minutes, while Jane hugged her miserably and said at five-second intervals, 'Don't cry, Panther dear! Then she jumped up, rubbed her eyes hard with the corner of her pinafore, so that they kept red for the rest of the day, and started to tell the boys.
She cried for about three minutes, while Jane hugged her miserably and said at five-second intervals, "Don't cry, Panther dear!" Then she jumped up, rubbed her eyes hard with the corner of her pinafore, so that they kept red for the rest of the day, and started to tell the boys. But just at that moment cook rang the dinner-bell, and nothing could be said till they had been helped to minced beef.
"I believe, Fanny, you hate seeing Luke and me happy together," said my mother one day, coming up from the kitchen to find my aunt preparing for entry into the drawing-room by dropping teaspoons at five-second intervals outside the door: "Don't make yourself so ridiculous." My mother spoke really quite unkindly. "Hate it!" replied my aunt.
His howitzer was loaded with a five-second shrapnel, and this he fired at the schooner at a point-blank range of less than a hundred yards. He couldn't miss entirely at that short distance, but the missile flew too high to hull the blockade-runner.
At five-second intervals they were projected outward, invisible globes of concentrated magnetic energy, undetectable in space. Seven seconds passed before the first became dimly visible in the thin air of Mars. It floated down, it would miss the fort it seemed so far to one side Abruptly it turned, and darted with tremendously accelerating speed for the great magnetic field of the fort.
These improvised bombs were risky to handle, and some men lost their lives through carelessness, though probably there were nearly as many accidents through overcaution. They would generally be provided with a five-second fuse, and you were supposed to swing three times before throwing.
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