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"I would break your stave across my knee first," cried John, laying his great hand upon the bow. "What! man, I am forest-born, and I know what comes of it. In our own township of Hordle two have lost their eyes and one his skin for this very thing.
Few of the whites escaped this ferocious onset, and the shell-delivering howitzers remained in Cudjoe’s hands. Despairing of conquering the forest-born Maroons by the arts of civilized warfare, the British were driven to try a new method. In 1737 they brought from the Mosquito coast a number of Indians, who were fully the equal of the negroes in bush fighting.
Seizures, confiscations, the slave-trade, marriages in short, the long game of advantage built up the fortunes of the Custises, until they expired in a certain Judge, whose notes of hand a hard man, forest-born, held over the Judge's head on what seemed hard conditions, but conditions in which was every quality of mercy, except consideration for your pride." The Judge made a laugh like a howl.
A fine sound, which in spite of many changes of climate and long centuries of domestication still preserves that forest-born character of wildness, which gives so great a charm to the language of many woodland gallinaceous birds.
"They are forest-born, and they come of a hunter's blood; that is why they run so early, and have such limbs," said he. "Yes," answered his wife, "that is partly why. When they grow older they will run so fast do not mistake them for deer if ever you go hunting." No sooner had she said the word than the memory of it, which had slept for a whole year, stirred his blood.
There are phrases in Louis Moore's diary that bring Emily Brontë straight before us in her swift and vivid life. Shirley is "Sister of the spotted, bright, quick-fiery leopard." "Pantheress! beautiful forest-born! wily, tameless, peerless nature! She gnaws her chain. I see the white teeth working at the steel! She has dreams of her wild woods, and pinings after virgin freedom."
His origin in the sea he had not yet discovered; the science of ages far distant in the future was to give him that. To himself forest-tethered he was also forest-born: he believed it to be his immediate ancestor, the creative father of mankind.
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