United States or Greece ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I've told you before, if you don't want your name printed plain don't come around asking me to spell it." Benny growled an answer but did not take up the quarrel. He knew Carson well enough to know that there was no man living readier for a fight or abler to conduct his own part of it. Carson, smaller than Benny, was wiry, quick-footed, hard-eyed.
It'll be a pretty fight, sir, for them that's sittin' in the front row." Joseph rubbed his hands slowly together and departed, leaving his master to begin a long letter to Guy Oscard. And at the other end of the passage, in her room with the door locked, Jocelyn Gordon was sitting, hard-eyed, motionless.
If she was living she would come herself if she could and if she couldn't she'd get somebody better'n you to come." Polly's eyes were flashing and her nostrils swelling. She must protect Peter at all cost to herself, even though the hated Dink would kill her for telling her such unpleasant truths. She stood up in front of the scornful, handsome, hard-eyed woman and defied her. "Run, Peter!
And as I looked in the old woman's face, the wrinkles and lines vanished, and it became a face of youth, hard-eyed, stony, but still youth; and the Shadow darted forth, and darkened over these phantoms as it had darkened over the last. Nothing now was left but the Shadow, and on that my eyes were intently fixed, till again eyes grew out of the Shadow, malignant, serpent eyes.
"Come out, if you're a man, and prove your title, or by grab, I'll come in there and get you!" He stopped with a grunt for the hard-eyed captain had jabbed him with the muzzle of his gun. "None of that," he said, but Rimrock took no notice his eyes were fixed on McBain.
The stage trail cut the barren little graveyard in two, and on both sides of it were headboards, some rotting with age, and others quite new, marking the last resting places of men who had died with smoke in their eyes. It was nearly sundown when Kid Wolf and the party with the bullet-riddled coach reached this point. They found a group of hard-eyed men waiting for them.
Word Of The Day