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"We have struck the hornet's nest," he said. "Do you hear them buzzing?" asked Ned, with a smile. "Worse than that," was the reply. "I am feeling their stings. Two of my men have been attacked in the dark." "And wounded?" "Yes; one of them seriously." "I'm sorry for the poor fellow," Ned said. "Do you think we can get him on to Peking?" Captain Martin shook his head. "It is a bad wound," he said.
In the hurry of our escape we left the boat-hook hanging in the hornet's nest, and not feeling at all inclined to go back for it, we hailed the captain's gig, which was following us, and requested very humbly that they would be pleased to recover our boat-hook for us, as we could not well re-ascend the stream from the want of it.
"Peaks told you this did he?" demanded Shuffles. "Of course he didn't mean to have us do anything of the kind." "Well, how did he tell you to serve out the officers?" "Make them uncomfortable; keep them in a hornet's nest all the time." "How? How?" asked Shuffles, impatiently.
I wouldn't get onto Charley's back again, with my clothes off, any more than I'd sit on a hornet's nest. How'd you like to ride through the town with nothin' on but your swimmin' trunks and drippin' with bluin water, I'd like to know?" Mrs. Burke did not care to prolong the interview any further, so she said in her severest tones: "Nicholas Burke, you go to bed instantly.
"God knows," said he to Perez, "that I always speak of them with respect, which is more than they do of me. But God forgive them all. In times like these, one must hold one's tongue. One must keep still, in order not to stir up a hornet's nest."
But it remained for this man to find a third use for such a thing. He brought it into the office of Gafford's wagon yard, where some other men were sitting about the fire, and he held it up before them and he said: "Who does this here hornet's nest put you fellers in mind of this gray color all over it, and all these here fine lines runnin' back and forth and every which-a-way like wrinkles?
The question of Christianity is virtually settled, or if not settled there is no lack of those engaged in settling it. The question of the day now is marriage and the family system." "That," said I drily, "is a hornet's nest indeed." "Yes," said he no less drily, "but hornet's nests are exactly what I happen to like.
Another mission General Banks' expedition To Galveston Sunday the 11th of January A small mistake Preparing for action The Hatteras A fight in the dark Sharp and decisive Surrender Rescue of the crew Sunk! Casualties Out of the hornet's nest.
C.F. Smith himself was on his deathbed at Savannah. But he heard the roar of battle. His excellent successor, W.H.L. Wallace, was killed; and battalions, brigades, and even divisions, soon became inextricably mixed together. There was now the same confusion on the Confederate side, where Johnston was wounded by a bullet from the Hornet's Nest. It was not in itself a mortal wound.
In a short time the atmosphere a mile or two below us, and to a distance of perhaps twenty miles around in every direction, was alive with airships of various sizes, and some of most extraordinary forms, exchanging signals, rushing to and fro, but all finally concentrating beneath the place where our squadron was suspended. We had poked the hornet's nest with a vengeance!
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