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"Enclosin' t' freemen's commons is nobbut devil's wark, I's thinkin'," Peregrine went on relentlessly, "and I've marked thee out for devil's wark sin first thou tried to bring more nor thy stint o' Swawdill yowes on to t' moor." The wallers received this home-thrust with a smile of approval, and Timothy, roused by this, sought to defend himself. "It's noan devil's wark," he retorted.
The fifth shows the climacteric of the battle; Christian has reached nimbly out and got his sword, and dealt that deadly home-thrust, the fiend still stretched upon him, but 'giving back, as one that had received his mortal wound. The raised head, the bellowing mouth, the paw clapped upon the sword, the one wing relaxed in agony, all realise vividly these words of the text.
"Then don't condescend to backbite him, dear." This home-thrust, coming from such a quarter, took away my Lady Disdain's very breath. She sat transfixed; then, upon reflection, got up a tear, and had to be petted. This sweet lady departed, flinging down her firebrand on those hospitable boards.
"And what is your claim, then, to go there?" Macleod asked. "Oh," said the young lieutenant, laughing at the home-thrust, "I am only admitted on sufferance, as a friend of Colonel Ross. She never asked me to put my name in her autograph-book.
You're a pretty color, certainly; why, your liver, man, is upside down. Did you take that medicine? Did he take that medicine, men?" "Ay, ay, sir, he took it sure enough," returned Morgan. The rogues looked at each other, but swallowed the home-thrust in silence. "Dick don't feel well, sir," said one. "Don't he?" replied the doctor. "Well, step up here, Dick, and let me see your tongue.
The partial slacker, scorning to insert his head in the scrum, assumes a commanding position outside and from this point criticises the Game-Captain's decisions with severity and pith. The last end of the partial slacker is generally a sad one. Stung by some pungent home-thrust, the Game-Captain is fain to try chastisement, and by these means silences the enemy's battery.
"Not a whit, not a whit," said Oldbuck; "men fight best in a narrow ring an inch is as good as a mile for a home-thrust." "It is decidedly Celtic," said the Baronet; "every hill in the Highlands begins with Ben." "But what say you to Val, Sir Arthur; is it not decidedly the Saxon wall?" "It is the Roman vallum," said Sir Arthur; "the Picts borrowed that part of the word."
It was in vain that he swelled and looked big, and talked large, and endeavoured to make up by pomp of manner for poverty of matter; every home-thrust of the radical made him wheeze like a bellows, and seemed to let a volume of wind out of him.
The large mild eyes and low voice, and pale earnest face of the plain-spoken invalid were such that it would have been impossible for any one to be offended with him, much less La Certe, whose spirit of indignation it was almost impossible to arouse. He winced a little at the home-thrust, however, because he knew it to be true.
"I might feel a bit sour about it, too," he replied, "if it were not that I haven't much pride left in these days, considering the show of physical retaliation I have made against Dr. Fu-Manchu." "A home-thrust, Weymouth!" snapped Nayland Smith, with one of those rare boyish laughs of his.
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