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Updated: June 25, 2025
In their tops the breeze was singing sonorously, but among their massive boles the silence was so tense that twigs cracking under her feet sounded like gun-shots echoing through the dim aisles.
"The gun-shots what?" he asked, setting forward at a walk which taxed the rawbone's stride. "An invite come to the wedding; that's all. Only it's a funeral this time, and, if something good doesn't happen, there'll be more than one funeral on the Sagalac to-morrow. I've had my try, but I dunno how it'll come out. He's not a man of much dictionary is the Monseenoor." "The Monseigneur Lourde?
Nothing but sore heels and slight shrapnel scars in the rear! and he embraced me and kissed me all over for bringing him now three cart-loads of real wounded men, with wounds got from sword-cuts, rifle-bullets, and gun-shots.
The light breeze wafted them northward. At last George Wick broke the silence. "Hark! What bes that?" he exclaimed. "It sounded like gun-shots," said John, indifferently. "I suppose that mad skipper is fighting with his men," said Flora and the breath of her words touched the sailor's cheek. Black Dennis Nolan and Bill Brennen brought the loose jewels from their hiding-place to the harbor.
On these occasions the punishment was severe, and they very seldom happened.” When the wind was light, we generally anchored about two gun-shots from the shore, and in the evening the crew danced or got up a kind of farce, which was farcical enough. After seven long, lazy, tedious weeks, we were ordered to Plymouth to refit.
The conflict had been begun on a gigantic scale at all points; and, as a result of the disarming domiciliary visits, and armorers' shops hastily invaded, was, that the combat which had begun with the throwing of stones was continued with gun-shots. About six o'clock in the evening, the Passage du Saumon became the field of battle. The uprising was at one end, the troops were at the other.
Their boy of twelve years knocked one down with a chair. While the fighting was going on within, and in their efforts to hold their victim outside, he wrenched himself from their grasp leaving his shirt in their hands and ran through the woods to my house, around which colored men gathered and protected him. Although twelve gun-shots followed him in the chase, yet none hit him.
For once, at any rate, it seemed likely to go the distance; but no sooner did the chorus, which had been taken up, to a man, by the motley crowd and was rip-roaring along at a great rate, reach the second line than there sounded the reports of a fusillade of gun-shots from the direction of the street. The effect was magical: every voice trailed off into uncertainty and then ceased.
"What are you worried about? Brigands, gun-shots, and all that?" "He will be a desperate man." "To steal a chest full of money is one thing; to shoot a man is another. Besides, the admiral will go if he has to go alone; and I can't desert him." "Very well. You will have to take me to Baden for nervous prostration." "Humph! Baden; that'll mean about two-thousand in fresh gowns from Vienna or Paris.
How they crept up close to the fort and captured a vedette within two gun-shots of the gate. How they hauled whaleboats over a mountain, embarked at the lower end of Lake Champlain, rowed down the lake at night, and after hiding in the daytime, attacked the enemy's boats, and sunk them.
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