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Updated: June 29, 2025
Fred's is the least sweet temper in the universe when the ague grips and shakes him, and he knows history as some men know the Bible by fathoms; he cursed the place conqueror by conqueror, maligning them for their city's sake, and if Sennacherib, who built the first foundations, and if Anthony and Cleopatra, Philip of Macedon, Timour-i-lang, Mahmoud, Ibrahim and all the rest of them could have come and listened by his bedside they would have heard more personal scandal of themselves than ever their contemporary chroniclers dared reveal.
He shook his hairy claws at the hostile circle, then cried to the chief in the native tongue: "Oh, Shaman! We come bleeding and weary. Hunger grips us and our bones are stiff with frost. The light is gone from my brother's eyes and we are sick. Open you the door to the Mission House that the 'Minoks' may rest and grow strong."
Looking back we saw the figure moving slowly away over the broad moor, and behind him that one black smudge on the silvered slope which showed where the man was lying who had come so horribly to his end. "We're at close grips at last," said Holmes as we walked together across the moor. "What a nerve the fellow has!
The place doesn't seem to have a single industry of its own; but then, as I said elsewhere, there is hardly an established industry in the Protectorate. There is one thing about Windhuk that grips your attention and holds it in no uncertain manner, too. One of the great objectives of the South-West campaign was to secure the Windhuk wireless station.
Then he faced round again on Cleek, who was once more sniffing the air, and pointed to the rude bed: "There's where Ted Logan sleeps this night there!" he went on suddenly; "and them as tries to get at Black Riot comes to grips with me first, me and the shotgun Mr. Sharpless has left Ah. And if Ah shoot, Lunnon Mister, Ah shoot to kill!" "Do me a favour, Sir Henry," said Cleek.
Pushing his spear a couple of feet through, the boy grips the prize with both hands, or bends the wire into the form of a hook. Fortune may continue to smile, and the boy takes several during the afternoon.
Yes there were grips, too, for the Toyman hadn't forgotten anything that goes with a perfect sled. "All aboard! Toot, toot!" he shouted, and Jehosophat yelled, "Clear the way!" And down the hill they shot. It wasn't like any other kind of travel in the world.
"Will you ride against me, cross swords with me, come to grips with me any way? You dare not. I am well born, have seen things, done things 'twould make you shiver to hear of them. Come, I am in a fiend's humor; come with your sword to the orchard and see which of us is the better man." Sir Blaise was in a fair panic at this raging fury he had conjured up and now was fain to pacify.
I was on my feet again and into the woods not traversing, on the way, a certain poppy- sprinkled field whence a fine Norman stallion snorted ridicule over a wall. But the fortune of Keredec was to sink as I rose. His summer rheumatism returned, came to grips with him, laid him low. We hobbled together for a day or so, then I threw away my stick and he exchanged his for an improvised crutch.
"Then, Rat, you and I will go with the party oursells this night, and see him in grips or we are done wi' him." "I seena muckle use I can be o' to your honour," said Ratcliffe, reluctantly. "Use?" answered Sharpitlaw "You can guide the party you ken the ground. Besides, I do not intend to quit sight o' you, my good friend, till I have him in hand."
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