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Every time the savages thought they had hit their white prisoners they uttered a yell of triumph, and Dr Lascelles knew that this terrible scene was only the prologue to one of a far more hideous nature, when, with a fiendish cruelty peculiar to their nature, they would fall upon their victims with their knives, to flay off their scalps and beards, leaving the terribly mutilated bodies to the birds and beasts of the plains.
She locked her fingers across her knee and would not look at me. "But by your own showing you should be ashamed, sir," she insisted. "What of the dear friend to whom you would give up even the love of your mistress?" "You may flay me as you will; I shall neither flinch nor go back from my word. You are mine, and I shall give you up to no man. I know I have not your love shall never have it.
"'No, said I, 'I will make up for it by working a little harder. "'Gad! your clients will pay for it! said he, looking at me wickedly out of the corner of his eyes. "'No, by all the devils in hell! cried I, 'it shall be I who will pay. I would sooner cut my hand off than flay people. "'Good-night, said Daddy Gobseck. "'Why, fees are all according to scale, I added.
The Thebans then do not sacrifice rams but hold them sacred for this reason; on one day however in the year, on the feast of Zeus, they cut up in the same manner and flay one single ram and cover with its skin the image of Zeus, and then they bring up to it another image of Heracles.
She suddenly then bolted the gate behind her, and was never since seen any more. They jointly ran in haste after the fallen and dispersed leaves, and gathered them at last, though not without great labour and toil, for the wind had scattered them amongst the thorn-bushes of the valley. Thy good end Suck she shall, And flay thee, friend, But not all.
What! am I to argue that it is wrong to make men brutes, to rob them of their liberty, to work them without wages, to keep them ignorant of their relations to their fellow-men, to beat them with sticks, to flay their flesh with the lash, to load their limbs with irons, to hunt them with dogs, to sell them at auction, to sunder their families, to knock out their teeth, to burn their flesh, to starve them into obedience and submission to their masters?
Unlucky were they who wore trews, for the same clung damply to knee and haunch and froze, while the stinging sleet might flay the naked limb till the blood rose among the felt of the kilted, but the suppleness of the joints was unmarred. It was long beyond noon when we reached the head of the pass, and saw before us the dip of the valley of the Spey.
Some day I'll break out and flay you and your friends alive." "But, Carley, you're my friend and you're just exactly like we are. Or you were, quite recently." "Of course, I'm your friend. I've always loved you, Eleanor," went on Carley, earnestly. "I'm as deep in this this damned stagnant muck as you, or anyone. But I'm no longer blind.
Ask him whether, contrary to all that is customary and decent, he cares to have anything to do with those horses that are tied to the cart. If he wants to do it after what I have said, well and good. For all I care, he may flay and skin them now."
"Supposing he has no job and no trade, why doesn't he work in his own home, the devil flay him! I say! Is there no work for you at home? Just look, you brute! Your steps have come to pieces, the plankway is falling into the ditch, the fence is rotten; you had better set to and mend it all, or if you don't know how, go into the kitchen and help your wife.
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