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"The police, I assumed, were waiting for daylight to rush the house. It was a mad plan and yet I was convinced that they had no other. And when they should enter, in the face of a stream of bullets from those terrible automatic pistols, what a carnage there would be! It was frightful to think of. Why does the law permit those cowards' tools to be made and sold?
He was conscious of a torrent of people rushing quickly by looking up, could discern the cabriolet whirled along the foot-pavement with frightful rapidity then heard a loud cry, the smashing of some heavy body, and the breaking of glass and then the crowd closed in in the distance, and he could see or hear no more.
He threw the shawl into the cockpit, lifted the girl in after it, buckled the safety belt across her, jumped in himself, and the great bird began to flit along the ground and quickly to rise. Another wild shot rang out, and frightful oaths.
"Was it really harder, Abbott, or was it this frightful weather?" "Well, we didn't have more appointments than usual, but some of them were unusually trying. That woman who wanted to be reappointed to the Pension Office, for example." Enoch nodded. "I'd rather see Satan come into this office than a woman. Try to head them off, Abbott, whenever you can." "I always do, sir!
She never attempted to look back; she felt in her heart that Goisvintha was still behind, and dared not to verify the frightful conviction with her eyes. Her lips moved; but they expressed an altered and a vain petition: 'Hermanric! O Hermanric! was all they murmured now. They had arrived at the long street that ran by the banks of the Tiber.
"But it would be impossible for me to give you the least idea of this dizzy spectacle, this chaos of rocks, heaped in frightful disorder.
The consolation; which he offers come from the depths of his soul, and are not mere formalities in the way of his profession. No, no, I saw him weep over a poor woman, whose eyes he had closed after a dreadful agony. Oh, if all priests were like him!" "No doubt, a good priest is most worthy of respect. But! who is the other victim of last night?" "Oh! his death was frightful. Do not speak of it.
After such frightful language, so unbecoming a deacon of Salem, so unlike a consistent member of the connection, what could he say? "Grandpapa," said Phoebe softly, "it is not good to be so angry; you are made to say things you are sorry for. Will you listen to me now? Though you don't think it, and perhaps won't believe it, I have found out something quite by chance "
Sim Howell and two other boys in their early teens had somehow obtained liquor, and had been picked up in a frightful condition on the public street by Constable Poley Cantor.
His brother officers are in league against him; his wife is regarded with jealousy; your frankest speech covers in his view some hidden and sinister meaning. You must be careful of your attentions to Mrs. Abercrombie to-night, for he will construe them adversely, and pour out his wrath on her defenceless head when they are alone." "This is frightful," was answered. "I never heard of such a case."
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