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His canoe had run into a large hornet's nest hanging from the branch of a tree and he had been stung in the head. To avoid further damage, he and the whole of the crew not only jumped into the water themselves but threw all the live stock overboard as well, for the natives believe that the sting of this insect kills and they fear it more than an encounter with a wild beast.
He seized the young man's leathery hand and wrung it cordially. "You're a man to be proud of," he said. "There are not many who would come to share our danger and our troubles." "You've hit it there, pard," the young hunter answered. "I have a respect for you, but if you were alone in this business I'd think twice before I put my head into such a hornet's nest.
I defy you to walk a couple of yards anywhere in Paris without stumbling on some infernal complication. I'll bet my head to a head of that salad that you will stir up a hornet's nest by taking a fancy to the first young, rich, and pretty woman you meet. They are all dodging the law, all at loggerheads with their husbands. So an honest man is the common enemy.
This need not surprise us, when we remember that it was as much as a man's life was worth to be anything else. There were also twenty-five thousand serfs. A serf was required to be at hand night or day when the baron needed some one to kick. He was generally attached to the realty, like a hornet's nest, but not necessary to it.
There was no definite reason in his mind. It was a stubborn instinct merely the instinct of pride, of stubborn independence of shame that festered in his soul like a hornet's sting. Even Melissa urged him.
I am no coward, nor a clumsy man of my hands." "He is either fool or liar who says so." "But see. I find it hard work to hold my own in Scotland now. Folks don't like me, or trust me; I can't say why." "How unreasonable!" quoth Hereward. "And if I kill this youth, and so have a blood-feud with Gospatrick, I have a hornet's nest about my ears. And beside, that Dolfin is a big man.
While England was still buzzing like a hornet's nest as a result of this exploit, Jones performed another deed that was even bolder than the attack on Whitehaven. This was no less than a raid on the estate of the Earl of Selkirk, where his uncle had worked as a gardener, and where Jones himself had spent a part of his boyhood.
It may be cruel, but I understand that a hornet's sting is not as painful to a horse as to a human being." Mona Lisa, I must explain, was the pack-horse. Tish had changed her name from Jane to Mona Lisa because in the mornings she was constantly missing, and having to be looked for. Tish disappeared for a time, and we settled down to our long wait.
I found one of them lying about at the farm the other day. 'Do you remember the hornet's nest in the wall of the garden ? 'What a garden that was! They have never found any pear equal to that jargonelle, where you ate twenty the first day of the holidays. What do you think of that, Johnnie? 'Ay, Johnnie, and I can tell you of something grandpapa did, retorted Mr.
The buyer can have possession of his purchase immediately after the auction, and a credit of six weeks will be given to any reliable customer. I bid a Danish shilling." "One mark," cried Solling mockingly. "Two," cried somebody else. "Four," exclaimed Solling. "It's worth it. Why don't you join in, Simsen? You look as if you were sitting in a hornet's nest."
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