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Updated: May 13, 2025
"I don't mean that exactly but what about his relations with the women around here?" She flinched as if his words had struck her a blow. "Dear Jonathan, your poor uncle would never have asked such a question."
Brown had not been for thirty years carrying a medicine case across the dusty deserts of the frontier without learning to know men. He made no further protest but set to work. Twenty minutes later Curly lay back on the bunk with a sudden faintness. He was very white about the lips, but he had not once flinched from the instruments.
We sent you greeting in your captivity; we rejoiced when the time came for your release. We offer you to-night our thanks and our hope thanks for the heroism which never flinched in the hour of battle, hope for a more peaceful future, in which the memory of a past pain may be a sacred heritage and not a regret. "'Charles Bradlaugh, President. "Soldier of liberty, we give you this.
He was by nature a bold, determined man, who never flinched from danger or duty, and when we heard him talking in that way we could scarcely believe our ears. This was all that was said about the matter between us and the captain, but we had many a hot discussion in the forecastle amongst ourselves after that.
Travis, although he again felt that touch of horror and disgust he could not account for, shot again. Between them the Apaches must have sent a dozen arrows into the raving beast before it went to its knees and Naginlta sprang for its throat. Even then the coyote yelped and flinched, a bleeding gash across its head from the raking talons of the dying thing.
Shady flinched away from him and Breed's lips writhed up and cupped away from his ivory fangs. There was no mistaking the snarl that accompanied this baring of his teeth and the gray wolf moved back to the opposite side of the steer. Thereafter both wolves ate sparingly and each watched for the least hostile move in the other.
He never flinched until the horse was within about twenty yards of him. Then, as the animal was evidently determined to continue its wild career, there was nothing left for him to do but to retire again to the kerb, where he stood looking after it with evident sorrow, as though saying to himself "Oh, well, if you are going to be headstrong I have done with you."
Each marched with a certain lightness of tread greybeards who no doubt remembered the days of the Famine and boys born since the Boer War; and as they stood there, their hands aloft, between the lines of khaki, not one face flinched. Here and there, however, one could see the older men shaking hands with the younger, muttering, "It isn't the first time we've suffered.
"I I beg your pardon I I " Dick got no further, for an officer's servant was at his elbow, looking at him rather superciliously as he said "This way!" For one moment Richard flinched, and thought of making a run for it; the next he was following the man. "Why not?" he muttered. "I may as well, if they want me to. Why not play for my living now?"
"On borrowed money?" asked Richling, evidently looking upon that question as a poser. "Yes." "Oh, no," said Richling, with a smile of superiority; but the other one smiled too, and shook his head. "Borrow mo', if you don't." Richling's heart flinched at the word. He had thought he was giving his true reason; but he was not.
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