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Frank, who had already arisen from his bed of straw, handed his gallant protector the article he had called for and, though very weak, assisted in gagging the vanquished ruffian, who, breathless and exhausted, could now offer but a slight resistance.
It was congregational singing of a very enthusiastic sort indeed, nothing short of gagging every one of them could have kept those song-loving Provençaux still but it was led by the choir, and choristers took the solo parts.
These quarrels, apparently, drove him from his native land; but his successors took warning from his example one of them indicates very plainly, that he has no desire whatever to incur an involuntary gagging like his colleague Naevius.
Then Don Luis Perenna, holding the other end of the lasso, came up to him and bound him hand and foot with what remained of the rope. The operation was carefully performed. Don Luis repeated it time after time, using the coils of rope which the cripple had brought to the well and gagging him with a handkerchief.
But, before they met, the finger tips of the left hand telegraphed to the man's brain that they had had momentary light experience with something hairy and warm, something that had slipped, eel-like, past them into the night; something that most assuredly was no satchel, but ALIVE! The man's throat contracted, in gagging fright. And, as before, fear scourged him to feverish rage.
When they had fairly entered the chamber, the physician being somewhat in advance, Nicæus, who was behind, commenced proceedings by knocking down the eunuch, and Iskander instantly turning round to his assistance, they succeeded in gagging and binding the alarmed and astonished Kaflis.
Successful as he had been in gagging the pulpits and silencing the Assembly, he had been as yet less successful in his efforts to revive the power of the Crown over the Church by a restoration of Episcopacy.
His big mouth opened as he fought for breath, and I clapped the Virgil hard and far into it, tying it tight in with my handkerchief, and gagging him effectually. I looked up and found, to my relief, that Cherry-Cheeks, like a sensible girl, had crept out of the room, and her share in the affair was never even suspected. Drawing my tuck, I touched the back of his neck with the point.
While it was easy to understand they were of the two sexes, they had no direct affinity to the mumbling sibilations of the English, the vehement monotony of the French, the gagging sonorousness of the Spaniards, the noisy melody of the Italians, the ear-splitting octaves of the Germans, or the undulating, head-over-heels enunciation of the countrymen of my particular acquaintance Captain Noah Poke.
The constable scrambled free and got upon his feet, in a squat of astonishment, with his head craned; but the squire stayed upon the floor, face downward, his feet flopping among the rustling asparagus greens a picture of slavering animal fear. And now his gagging screech resolved itself into articulate speech. "I done it!" they made out his shrieked words. "I done it! I own up I killed him!
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