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Then he begins to cut the scalp with his shaggy knife-blade of flint. A faint whistling sound, as of some one hissing near him, is heard; and ere he looks up a male voice by his side has said, "That is good, very good!" The words are spoken in the Dinne language. The murderer looks up, staying his work of mutilation.
But you could bring him here and hide him where no one would dare to think of looking for him in your apartments!" With a snarl of rage Lorry sprang upon him, cutting short the sentence that would have gone through her like the keenest knife-blade. "Liar! Dog! I'll kill you for that!" he cried, but, before he could clutch the Prince's throat, Yetive had frantically seized his arm.
One is peering through with face upon the pane; I know the other is trying the lock, but I hear no sound. I am in a silence like that of the grave. I try to speak. My lips move, but, try as I may, no sound comes out of them. A sharp terror is pricking into me, and I flinch as if it were a knife-blade. Well, sir, that is a thing I cannot understand. You know me I am not a coward.
Despite all reports to the contrary, I wish to state that it is no trouble at all to eat green peas off a knife-blade you merely mix them in with potatoes for a cement; and fried steak take it from an old steak eater tastes best when eaten with those tools of Nature's own providing, both hands and your teeth.
The approach to the site is by a wide flight of many stone steps, black and moss-grown with the rains and dews of centuries, forming a grand example of ancient masonry, the large, uniform granite blocks so laid and bonded that, after resting there for ages, a knife-blade could not be introduced between the joints.
After trying nearly all the keys, and disburdening himself of whole volumes of impulsive French ejaculations, this man likewise gives it up in despair; but, now everything else has been tried and failed, the countenance of la portier suddenly lights up, and he slips quietly around to an adjoining room, and enters mine inside of two minutes by simply lifting a small hook out of a staple with his knife-blade.
It was a knife-blade stringer, a mere seam of rotten quartz running along the side of a canyon; and yet not without its elements of promise, for it was located near another big fault. In geological days the rim-rock had been rent here as it had at Queen Creek Canyon and this stringer of quartz might lead to a golden treasure that would far surpass Bunker's silver.
As the knife-blade was quite long, I had strong hopes of giving the bear such a wound, when he appeared at the window, as might be the death of him, or, at any rate, frighten him so badly that he would be glad to run away, and not come back any more. "Nearer and nearer came the bear, and greater grew our alarm.
'Now as to this article, said Cincinnati, slashing into the ostensible butter and holding forward a slab of it on his knife-blade, 'it's from our house; look at it smell of it taste it. Put any test on it you want to. Take your own time no hurry make it thorough. There now what do you say? butter, ain't it. Not by a thundering sight it's oleomargarine! Yes, sir, that's what it is oleomargarine.
Then they were pulled closer together than before closer, and still closer for the prince and Nerle had surrounded them with the rope and were tying the two ends together in a tight knot. The rope cut into the waists of those on the outside, and they pressed inward against their fellows until there was scarcely space to stick a knife-blade between any two of them.
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