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I have raised a hornet's nest by my objection to faked cables; but I will not have it done. They may suppress but they shall not invent. From General Sir Ian Hamilton to War Office. Your No. 12431. I do not object to General Officer Commanding, Egypt, publishing any telegram I send him, as I write them for that purpose.
At length the Captain found himself in a perfect hornet's nest, surrounded by vicious young secessionists, so perfectly nullified in the growth that they were all ready to shoulder muskets, pitchforks, and daggers, and to fire pistols at poor old Uncle Sam, if he should poke his nose in South Carolina.
"Then come on. If we can get away, the sooner the better," returned the boy, and led the way into the water once more. They walked as far as they could and then began to swim. Stover insisted on taking the lead. "I'm used to scoutin'," he said. "We don't want to run in no hornet's nest."
Into this hornet's nest, Decatur steered his little vessel of sixty tons, carrying four small guns, and having a crew of only seventy men. The Tripolitans saw the vessel entering the harbor, but supposed it to be one of their own until it was alongside the Philadelphia.
Here, girl, go cram what you can get into a pillow-case, and mount behind my saddle again; be quick, we're going to burn this hornet's nest too." Harry and I had already run to the old man's room, and, sure enough, there lay the aged assassin hideous in his fallen bulk, with his own bullet in his brain. Once more the Arkansan shook his head at the leaping flames.
'Don't run your head into a hornet's nest, said Edgar; 'it's all up with me there. Come this way, and I'll tell you all about it. 'All up with you! 'There are limits to human endurance, and Tom and I have overpassed each other's.
That everlasting trying to be sharp is one of the most deadly things a man has to put up with. It's catching eh, Lilith?" was the sneering retort. "But who is it?" said Mrs. Falkner, who was short-sighted, or affected to be. "Oh, the great god, Stanninghame, of course, and his pup, Holmes." Now the ill-conditioned George had stirred up a hornet's nest, for his sister took up the parable.
It was renewed again and again, without success, as before, when, provoked apparently by the presence of this hornet's nest, which reversed all his plans, General Burnside, about ten o'clock, opened a furious fire of artillery upon the city.
Allen, in the centre of Independence Square, from the top of which floated to the breeze a large flag, capped with a huge hornet's nest from Stokes county. To preserve the Centennial feature as far as possible of the Convention of the 19th of May, 1775, called out by Col. Thos.
"I have the hornet's nest. Isn't it big? We had a fight with the hornets. I ran away, but Buster and Wink are chuck full of stingers. They want you to come quick. Buster is howling real loud." Dr. Grand-daddy trotted along the pine-needle path. "Oh, Grand-daddy, those hornets were full of hot prickers!" sobbed Buster. "Wait a bit, kiddies," he called.
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