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Louis for the Merchants Bank of Forth Smith, Arkansas, and various other packages, amounting altogether to $53,000. With wonderful sang froid, Cummings stuffed this valuable booty in his valise, and then proceeded to open the bags containing coin. His keen knife-blade ripped bag after bag, but finding it all silver, he desisted, and turning to Fotheringham, demanded: "Any gold aboard?"
And then again an' lastly," said the Chapman, balancing a piece of cheese on the flat of his knife-blade, "lastly theer's his clothes, an', as I've read somewhere, 'clothes make the man' werry good chuck in dignity an' theer's your gentleman!" "Hum," said Barnabas, profoundly thoughtful.
The whole place was ringing with shouts. And then a shrill siren alarm from outside started clanging. The first of the men a few moments before he had seemed a giant flung himself upon me. His head was lower than my shoulders. I met him with a blow of my fist in his face. He toppled backward; but from one side another figure came at me. A knife-blade bit into the flesh of my thigh.
Lawrence, where he could raise stock hardy enough for any climate, and ship by land or water. "I've got to be getting home right away now," he said finally, clicking his knife-blade half shut and open with his thumb. "It's about time for our evergreen trade, and I don't want the trees to stay a minute in the ground after the middle of the month."
In these contests a mountain marksman will shoot eight or ten times and often so closely will each shot fall to the knife-blade cross that the hole cut by all of them in the white paper-target would be no larger than a man's thumb-nail.
He spoke to the dead man in the open grave; and when events that followed brought the words back to their minds some of these auditors repeated the vow he made: to color that knife-blade and his hands bright red with the blood of twenty men of Murphy's Diggings; and after that to devote his life to killing Americans.
This building, like the others we had seen, was made of hewn stone, smoothly cut and fitted together without any cement. Indeed they needed none, for the thinnest knife-blade could not have been inserted between them.
Jack's the sort if he finds a key he'll look for the lock; if ye give him a knife-blade he'll fashion a heft. Why, a vagrant's a chap that, if he'd all your maester owns to-morrow, he'd be on the tramp again afore t' year were out, and three years wouldn't repair the mischief he'd leave behind him. A vagrant's a chap that if ye lend him a thing he loses it; if ye give him a thing he abuses it "
Well, there is the ball that whistled within ten feet of your head when you were walking on the main deck." Ben Bowman applied his knife-blade to the turkey, and pried out the bullet, which had lodged against the breastbone. I took it in my hand. If his story was true, this was not the ball that passed near my head. We made another search for the man who had fired at me, but we looked in vain.
This lady was said to have a few drops of genuine aboriginal blood in her veins; and it is certain that her cheek had a little of the russet tinge which a Seckel pear shows on its warmest cheek when it blushes. Love shuts itself up in sympathy like a knife-blade in its handle, and opens as easily. All the rest followed in due order according to Nature's kindly programme.
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