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Cecilia followed at a sullen canter. Before they came up to Beauchamp, the long-shanked man had stalked away townward. Lydiard held Beauchamp by the hand. Some last words, after the manner of instructions, passed between them, and then Lydiard also turned away. 'I say, Beauchamp, Mrs. Devereux wants to hear who that man is, Palmet said, drawing up. 'That man is Dr.
He shot the five shots without appreciable sighting before each, as fast as his thumb could pull back the long-shanked hammer. The muzzle of the weapon rose and fell with a regularity positively mechanical, and the five shots had been delivered in half that number of seconds. "There's your five," said he, carelessly dropping his gun back into its holster.
As his sure-footed nag forded the brown bog-stream, long-shanked birds rose silently from the pools, and he marked with emotion the spots his boyhood had known: the shallow where the dog-wolf so big that it had become a fable died biting, and the cliff whence the sea-eagle's nest had long bidden him defiance.
At twenty-two, Bibbs was physically no more than the outer scaffolding of a man, waiting for the building to begin inside a long-shanked, long-faced, rickety youth, sallow and hollow and haggard, dark-haired and dark-eyed, with a peculiar expression of countenance; indeed, at first sight of Bibbs Sheridan a stranger might well be solicitous, for he seemed upon the point of tears.
He could present you heroical actions in that fashion; for example: 'A long-shanked trooper, bearing the name of John Thomas Drew, was crawling along under fire of the batteries. Out pops old Nevil, tries to get the man on his back. It won't do.
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