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Updated: May 14, 2025
Some of the passengers, having been forewarned, were provided with heavy overcoats, oilskin hats, waterproofs, woolen socks, and stogies with great nails driven into the soles. They were iron-bound, copper-fastened tourists, thoroughly equipped Alpine-stock and all, and equal to any emergency. Certainly it rains whenever it feels like it in Alaska.
But the schoolmaster and we now include both sub-divisions of the class was not deficient as an example in many other things, to all who wished to learn the true principles of living. Among other things, he was distinguished for a rigid, iron-bound economy: a characteristic which it might have been well to impart to many of his pupils.
So does constant chipping, while at the same time wearing away the chipper. Father never spent an hour in that well. He trusted me to sink it straight and plumb, and I did, and built a fine covered top over it, and swung two iron-bound buckets in it from which we all drank for many a day.
The puffs of wind are boisterous, and seem to assail me from various quarters at once. I have often observed that this corner is a haunt and loitering-place for those winds which have no work to do upon the deep, dashing ships against our iron-bound shores; nor in the forest, tearing up the sylvan giants with half a rood of soil at their vast roots.
"In heaven's name, man," cried Stubb, "are you ramming home a cartridge there? Avast! How will that help him; jamming that iron-bound bucket on top of his head? Avast, will ye!" "Stand clear of the tackle!" cried a voice like the bursting of a rocket.
Bowing her acquiescence in this arrangement, fearing indeed to refuse, Dora follows the others from the haunted chamber. At the foot of the small stone staircase before they go through the first iron-bound door that leads to the corridor without they find Ethel Villiers awaiting them.
I reckoned its value roughly, and found that, at the then ruling price of gold, the value of the packages before me approximated well on toward three millions sterling. Nor was this all. There was a heavy, oaken, iron-bound case, measuring about two feet square by about a foot and a half high.
He pointed to where the huge, rusty iron-bound door frowned in the blank wall of gray stone. The negro guards hung back and gabbled together, but Manuel turned upon them fiercely with uplifted switch.
This appeal, however, which was rather acted than spoken, was unheeded, or came too late; for, at that instant, the chafing and maddened horses dashed furiously forward, directly over the exposed corner of the young man's vehicle, which, under the iron-bound feet of the fiercely-treading animals, and the heavy sleigh runners that followed, came down with a crash to the ground, leaving him barely time to clear himself from the wreck, by leaping forward into the snow.
One comfort she took to her sad heart, that Rainham had not condemned her; that he had only pitied her, while he reserved his damnation for the iron-bound, Sabbatarian world which had ruined and spurned another helpless victim.
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