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The wire caught him in the middle of the stomach, and there he hung for a moment undecided which way to fall. But he kicked with his hind feet, and that seemed to upset his balance, for he plunged headfirst down, and landed on the other side in a wild somersault. "Well, that wasn't exactly graceful," he said, "but I'm here, and that's where I wanted to be.
Drummer the Woodpecker gave a frightened scream and flew deep into the Green Forest. Peter Rabbit flattened himself under a friendly bramble bush. Johnny Chuck dived headfirst down his doorway. Reddy Fox gave a yelp, a shrill little yelp of pain, and suddenly began to go lame. But Farmer Brown's boy didn't know that.
Octagon does not hesitate to strike at me through you, and as your happiness is at stake, and the happiness of the girl you love, I shall tell you so far as I can guess why the woman behaves in this way." "If you please, sir," and Cuthbert settled himself to listen. "About twenty years ago," said Caranby, plunging headfirst into his subject, "Isabella and Selina Loach were well-known in society.
For an instant a wild shriek re-echoed through the city from the lungs of the victor and then, without an instant's hesitation, the fellow leaped headfirst to the street beside the body of his victim. A lion moved out from the dense shadows of a doorway and approached the two bloody and lifeless things before him.
Soon a vast mountain covered with pine forest rose into the sky ahead and two hours of unbroken climbing brought me only to the rim of another great wooded valley scolloped out of the earth and down into which I went all but headfirst into the town of Copan.
He waited patiently for word from Santos that his helmet glow had been seen. Santos yelled, "Now!" Rip’s legs straightened with a mighty thrust. He flashed into space headfirst, at an angle that took him over the crater’s rim and 50 feet above the ground. He caught a glimpse of Santos’s helmet, glowing like a pink balloon, and of the three Connies facing it, one with gun upraised.
Just then one of the giant servants entered and exclaimed, "Oh, Your Majesty, the cook has burned the soup! What shall we do?" "How dare you interrupt me?" asked the Czarover, and grasping the immense giant by one of his legs, he raised him in the air and threw him headfirst out of an open window.
Fret Offut did not have the opportunity to finish his sentence before a stout hand was laid on his shoulder and he was plunged headfirst into the river. "Get out the best you can!" cried Jack North. He turned to the girl. "Has he dared so much as to lay a ringer on you, Jenny?" "Oh, Jack! I am so glad to see you!
As he dropped the oars and leapt anxiously to his feet the frail canoe, unfitted to encounter such a peril, was clutched and lifted broadside by the foaming swell. Over it went instantly, and there was a flash of red and blue as the girl was flung headfirst into the river. As quickly Jack clasped his hands and dived from his boat. He came to the top and swam forward with desperate strokes.
Then he placed beside her the six purple berries each one being about as big as the tiny Trot's head and all preparations being now made the old sailor ate his lavender berry and became very small wooden leg and all! Cap'n Bill stumbled sadly in trying to climb over the edge of the sunbonnet and pitched in beside Trot headfirst, which caused the unhappy Pessim to laugh with glee.
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