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Was that ill-jointed lop-eared offspring of the man-beast an enemy, too? Were those twisting convolutions of this new creature's body and the club-like swing of his tail an invitation to fight? He judged so. Anyway, here was something of his size, and like a flash he was at the end of his rope and on the pup.
As the major went racing clumsily along for he was what may be called an ill-jointed man, nevertheless as bold as a lion and a capital shot he heard a clatter of hoofs behind him, and, looking over his shoulder, observed another buffalo in full career behind. He stopped instantly, took quick aim at the animal's breast, and fired, but apparently without effect.
It was not in any sense a reasonable project of government, but simply an ill-jointed outline of rules for a proposed slave insurrection. Somewhere in the Virginia mountains he would raise the standard of revolt and liberation. Enthusiasts would join him from the free States, and escaped blacks come to his help from Canada.
She forgot herself, her timid shyness now, and looked into his eyes, a noble, helpful woman, sounding the depths of the turbid soul laid bare for her. He laid his big, ill-jointed hand on her knee. "I thought," he said. great drops of sweat coming out on his sallow lips, "God meant you to help me. There is my life, little girl. You may do what you will with it. It does not value much to me."
If we must needs pry closely into the matter, it may be doubted whether there was any real change, after all, in the sordid, wornout worthless, and ill-jointed substance of the scarecrow; but merely a spectral illusion, and a cunning effect of light and shade so colored and contrived as to delude the eyes of most men.
It was necessary to establish a national system of education to replace the useful, but ill-jointed work done peacemeal by the Provinces. A bill and not a bad bill was introduced by Mr. Charles Bowen, a gentleman honourably connected with the founding of education in Canterbury.
To John White's ill-jointed but invaluable compilation "The Ancient History of the Maori," every student henceforth will have to turn. The selections therein from the papers of Stack on the South Island Maoris, from Travers' "Life of Te Rauparaha," and Wilson's "Story of Te Waharoa," are less stony than the more genealogical portions.
She told herself that she was simple and friendly in going to the back door instead of the front, and it was with gaiety that she knocked on the ill-jointed screen door, which flapped dismally in response. "Ja?" from within. She rapped again. "Hinein!" She opened the door on a kitchen, the highlight of which was a table heaped with dishes of dumplings and salt pork.
But it is one of the fatalities of our ill-jointed life that houses are usually furnished for future homes by young people in just this state of blissful ignorance of what they are really wanted for, or what is likely to be done with the things in them.
Her voice had vibrations in it that might have stirred up the heart of a stoic. The splendor of her exalted beauty illumined the room. And gradually, one by one, Daniel's suspicions vanished, or fell to pieces like the ill-jointed pieces of an ancient armor. But Miss Brandon paused, ashamed of her vehemence, and continued more slowly,
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