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She was an ordinary ship's whaler, fairly strong, but showing signs of the strains she had endured since the crushing of the 'Endurance'. Where she was holed in leaving the pack was, fortunately, about the water-line and easily patched. Standing beside her, we glanced at the fringe of the storm-swept, tumultuous sea that formed our path. Clearly, our voyage would be a big adventure.
The superstitious practices connected with clefts and holed stones were denounced by councils of the Christian Church, which subjected transgressors to various penalties. Consequently this mode of worship came into evil repute; and what was formerly considered a meritorious action, securing the cure of disease or future happiness, became a deed of evil, to be followed by some calamity.
The ground was unpleasantly pitted and holed; the camels were weak with semi-starvation and the depressing south-wester; Lieutenant Amir put his dromedary to speed, resulting in a nose-flattening fall; and the Sayyid nearly followed suit. This is our second day of Khamsin; yet on the northern slope of the great Fiumara we meet the cool land-wind.
First, Dol opened the pigeon holed door, then Sarah Howland tumbled in howling she was honestly very much frightened, next went Shirley Duncan. She seemed wild to get under cover. Then I tripped along " "Not scared or anything?" from Nettie.
"Here's our storm at last, and lucky it is that we're holed up so well." Boyd joined him. The snow was so dense that they could not see across the valley, but it was not driving now, merely floating down lazily and persistently. "That means it will come for a long time," said Boyd. "Snow clouds are like men.
"Not a know; an' if you main to keep yourself from being holed as they holed Muster Bingham the other day away at Hollymount." The boy understood perfectly well what was meant by the process of "holing." The Mr. Bingham, a small landlord, who had been acting as his own agent some twenty miles off, in the County of Mayo, had been frightfully murdered three months since.
Not one man, sleepless like yourselves, to question you, and be answered after the fashion of the old nursery rhyme "'What makes your eyes so holed? 'I've lain so long among the mould. 'What makes your feet so broad? 'I've walked more than ever I rode! "'Yet who can tell? I went on to myself. 'It may be your hell to return thus.
Yet that is what West did it in; and strange to relate, and greatly to that young gentleman's surprise, Whipple duplicated the performance, and amid the excited whispers of the onlookers the two youths holed out on their next strokes; and the score still gave the odd to West 29 to 30. "I didn't think he could do it," whispered West to Joel, "and that makes it look bad for your uncle Out.
"You haven't told me yet what the trouble was," June said. "Well, this fellow Jas Stuart was a stock detective. He come down for the Cattlemen's Association to find out who was doing the rustlin' in Brown's Park. You see, the Park was a kind of a place where we holed up. There was timbered gulches in there where we could drift cattle in an' hide 'em. Then there was the Hole-in-the-Wall.
It's the boat, answered Ken briefly, as he bent to examine the damage. A few seconds later, and they had rounded the projecting point of rock on which stands the old lighthouse. The firing ceased. Roy slackened a little. 'Much damage? he asked curtly. 'Holed her badly, Ken answered. 'She's leaking like a sieve. 'Rotten luck! growled Roy. 'And just as we'd dodged the blighters.
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