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Updated: June 15, 2025
"Well, there it is, Macumazahn, you will have to stay here unless you wish to be killed. He who walks into a storm must put up with the hailstones." So it came about that once again Fate dragged me into the Zulu maelstrom. On the morrow I was summoned to the trial, half as a witness and half as one of the offenders.
At day-break the weather moderated, and we were able to set more sail; but in two or three hours the wind chopped round to the north-west, and blew more fiercely than ever, attended by squalls of hailstones as big as marbles, the knocks of which made my countenance look as if I had come off second-best in a middle-weight "scrap."
The superstitious fanatics, who looked upon him as a man gifted by the Evil Spirit with supernatural means of defence, averred that they saw the bullets recoil from his jack-boots and buff-coat like hailstones from a rock of granite, as he galloped to and fro amid the storm of the battle. "Try him with the cold steel," was the cry at every renewed charge "powder is wasted on him.
In the meantime there suddenly fell such a violent shower of hail that I was immediately, by the force of it, struck to the ground; and when I was down the hailstones gave me such cruel bangs all over the body, as if I had been pelted with tennis balls; however, I made a shift to creep on all four, and shelter myself, by lying flat on my face, on the lee-side of a border of lemon-thyme; but so bruised from head to foot that I could not go abroad in ten days.
A volley of merry exclamations assailed him like bright but wounding hailstones. "Bravo, Gwynplaine!" "Bravo, Laughing Man!" "Bravo, Snout of the Green Box!" "Mask of Tarrinzeau Field!" "You are going to give us a performance." "That's right; talk away!" "There's a funny fellow!" "How the beast does laugh, to be sure!" "Good-day, pantaloon!" "How d'ye do, my lord clown!" "Go on with your speech!"
Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there was no peace; and one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered morter: Say unto them which daub it with untempered morter, that it shall fall: there shall be an overflowing shower; and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall; and a stormy wind shall rend it.
Once Fritz turned loose with a machine gun, the bullets from which "cracked" through the air and kicked up the dirt on the top, scattering sand and pebbles, which, hitting our steel helmets, sounded like hailstones. Upon arrival in the fire trench an officer of the Royal Engineers gave us our instructions and acted as guide.
It's my husband.'And she looked up after him into the sky, whence his song was still falling like a shower of musical hailstones. Perhaps she could see him. "'He's a splendid bird, said Buffy-Bob; 'only you know he will get up a little too early. "'Oh, no! he doesn't. It's only his way, you know. But tell me what I can do for you.
It's positively eerie to see him making notes with a steady hand when shells are dropping like hailstones and we're all thinking every minute's our last. You've got to be careful with him, sir. He's a long sight too valuable for us to spare. Lefroy was right about that, for I don't know what I should have done without him.
They made the hard ground into soft, and the soft into spring wells; they made the rocks into pebbles, and the pebbles into gravel, and the gravel fell over the country like hailstones.
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