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"If he whacks me over the head with that or jabs it into my stomach, I'm done," Lawrence thought, and pat to the moment Janaway, his mouth open and his teeth bare, rushed on him and struck at his eyes. Lawrence parried and sprang aside: but his arm was jarred to the elbow. "That was a close call.
So much the registry-clerk heard; and he saw, between jabs with his pen, the straight path to the revolving doors of the portal ploughed by the big man with young Blount at his elbow. One minute after the spinning doors had engulfed the pair the registry-clerk was called on the house telephone.
Through the sound of scuffling came the noise of short-armed jabs, the deep throated curses of Kootanie George and once . . . his first vocal utterance . . . one of Dave Drennen's laughs. It was when he had again driven his fist against George's mouth, drawing blood from both lips and hand cut by breaking teeth.
Miss Satterly helped him reckon his winnings which was not easy to do, since he had been offered all sorts of odds and had accepted them all with a recklessness that was appalling. While her dark head was bent above the piece of paper, and her pencil was setting down figures with precise little jabs, he watched her.
The late-lamented Brann had a felicity and a facility in the use of words that finally cost him his life. Men with pistol facility and word felicity die by the pistol. The brain of the prizefighter does not convolve: he relies more on his "jabs" than on thoughts that burn and those who live by the hammer die by the hammer.
He saw that her lips were intolerantly compressed and that her needle came and went in protesting little jabs. "Hannah," he quietly inquired, "what do you think?" The elderly woman whose sternness of view had been tempered by neither maternity nor breadth of experience shook her head. "I don't know as I'm called on to express what I think, Tom," she replied with cold disapproval.
"It's the Ponce de Leon Bay, sir, with the Ten Thousand Islands and I'd say there're all of ten thousand, or quite harf, anyway." With his fork he quickly drew on the tablecloth a sketch of southwestern Florida, outlining the waters northeast of Cape Sable and with little jabs indicating the island area which extends up and down the coast, as well as into Whitewater Bay.
He opened his eyes, and looking at me kindly, answered, 'Not much lately; he used to till my hide got hardened, but now he has a white-oak goad-stick with an iron brad in its end, with which he jabs my hind quarters and hurts me awfully. I asked him why he did not kick up, and knock his tormentor out of the wagon.
Grateful for even a momentary respite, Jake rose from his knees with alacrity and humbly followed one of the Rebels along the path. The others strode behind, and occasionally spurred him into a more rapid pace with a prick from their bayonets. "O, -ough, mister, don't do that! Don't, PLEASE! You don't know how it hurts. I ain't got no rhinoceros skin to stand such jabs as that.
Kathleen looked at her curiously, and then made a singular remark. "Yes; that's what I did it for." "But what interest have you in saving the 'Clarion'?" demanded Esmé, bewildered. "The failure of the 'Clarion' would be a disaster to the city," observed Miss Pierce in copy-book style. "Kathie! You should make two jabs in the air with your forefinger when you quote. Otherwise you're a plagiarist.
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