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There are the Native Contingent from the stad, and a company of Zulus, and the Kaffirs and the Cape Boys with their gaspipe rifles that do good service in default of better, and bring down Oom Paul's Scripturally-flavoured denunciations upon Englishmen, who arm black and coloured folk to do battle for their own sable or brown or yellow rights.
There's one thing only it does listen to, one thing it is frightened of the people with dynamite in their hands, six inches of plugged gaspipe. THAT talks." Dyke did not reply. He filled another pony of whiskey and drank it in two gulps.
They now carried their leader in a hammock, as he had been wounded by several pieces of cast-iron fired out of a gaspipe gun; but they also brought back the dusky gentlemen who had been responsible for the abortive rising.
In the dim light, I saw the figure of a policeman standing tiptoe upon a satin chair, plugging with soap the broken gaspipe which had once supported the Hawkins' chandelier. The ceiling was all down. The walls were bare to the lath in huge patches. The windows had disappeared, and a chill autumn night wind swept through the room.
Most of us had to go to the hospital next day." Sam Rovinson was beaten with a piece of gaspipe, but taking advantage of the fact that the shooting when Archie Collins made his escape had attracted the attention of the deputies he got thru the gauntlet with only minor injuries.
You have the aspect of one whom Fate has smitten in the spiritual solar plexus, or of one who has been searching for the leak in Life's gaspipe with a lighted candle. What's wrong?" "Curtains!" Jimmy, through long absence from his native land, was not always able to follow Jerry's thoughts when concealed in the wrappings of the peculiar dialect which he affected. "I get you not, friend.
Two tables covered with papers, a bed and several chairs were in the room, together with many little jars, bits of gaspipe, lumps of sulphur, phosphorus and lead. "Sit down," said Bludoffski. Mr. O'Royster sat. "I am an Anarchist," Bludoffski began. "'S very nice," Mr. O'Royster replied. "I 's zhinkin' uzzer day 'bout bein' Anarchis' m'self, but Mrs.
But Barstein drew back his own coat-tail from the attempted kiss. 'Where is the gas? he asked drily. 'Alas, the company removed the meter. 'But the gas-brackets? 'What else had we to eat? said Nehemiah simply. Barstein in sudden suspicion raised his eyes to the ceiling. But a fragment of gaspipe certainly came through it.
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