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And then he challenged the biggest of them to a stand-up fight, and a ring was made and they fought; and certainly it was a strange thing to see Saunders, with his bare arms looking no thicker than a hop-pole, tackling that great fellow, whose right arm was nearly as thick as Saunders's body.
A pretty girl she was, too, and the style of her dress showed very plainly that it was EUGENIE she was hoping to see at Saratoga, and not Madame OLLIVIER. Well, she had not danced with Mr. P. more than a couple of hours when she left him for a Pole one of these wandering Counts that you always see at such places a regular hop-Pole, in fact. Mr.
So here stand I this day not only gunner but master's mate beside of as tight a ship, maugre the crew, as ever sailed and all along o' that same chance meeting at the 'Hop-pole." "And though a friend of Bym you knew little of Adam Penfeather?" "Little enough, Mart'n.
Meantime Carmichael had found a short hop-pole, and with this he took a hand in the contest. The pole was clumsy, but the tough wood was stronger than steel. He hit the saber with good-will. Back came the steel. The colonel did not care whom or what he struck at now. When Carmichael returned the compliment he swung his hop-pole as the old crusaders did their broadswords.
And then they have had the advantage of Woolwich or Sandhurst, or Chobham, and are dabs at a bivouac, grand hands with an axe cut a hop-pole down in half a day amost, and in the other half stick it into the ground.
The stranger was tall, thin, and as straight as a hop-pole; had a huge aquiline nose, with a pair of long moustachios jutting out beneath it and curling up to his eyes; and on his chin was a sharp-pointed beard.
On the other hand, you have at your feet a man of outstanding ability and high character, and who has attained an extraordinary position far better than any aristocratic lath or hop-pole; and you can render him the most material help by your abilities and knowledge of the world.
Judging by the "Dead Heart of Australia" a book which gave me a nightmare from which I shall never recover I should say that a varnished hop-pole would be an artistic godsend out there. But from here the intruder should be expelled without mercy. A single eucalyptus will ruin the fairest landscape.
Wadleigh approached the door, she gave a rapid glance at the hop-pole in the garden, and wondered if its vine had stood the winter well. That was the third hop vine she'd had from Mirandy Pendleton! Mounting the front steps, she drew forth the key, and put it in the door. It turned readily enough, but though she gave more than one valiant push, the door itself did not yield.
At Bexley, as he hurried past, he caught dimly a glimpse of an old nurse whom he remembered trying to break into bits with a hop-pole he could barely lift; and, most singular thing, on the Sidcup platform, a group of noisy schoolboys, with smudged faces and ridiculously small caps stuck on the back of their heads, had scrambled viciously to get into his compartment.
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