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Their sitting-room window was filled chiefly with parchment, but there was one square of it filled with glass. Through this, as from a loop-hole, the inmates could reconnoitre any one who approached their hut. "Two dog-sleighs!" exclaimed Ian, turning from the loop-hole with a look of surprise.
Before him knelt the Parson with low head, swathing his feet with strips of torn towel, absorbed as a surgeon, careful as a mother. "Is that easy? now how's that? try your foot down! Another turn round the ankle? Remember, it'll be rough going till you strike the grass." At the loop-hole Nelson's old foretop-man watched and waited. A gleam smote his silver hair and prophetic forehead.
Just a loophole placed in a traverse through which a rifle could be fired along a straight thirty yards of trench, if the Germans ever got in. But to fire a rifle to any purpose the loop-hole must not be broken, and so the Sapper made a note before resuming his stroll. Rounding a bend, a big white board at a cross-roads confronted him.
"They know that their aged mistress, Damia, and I myself command the daemons of the upper and lower spheres, and that at a sign from her or from me they would instantly perish; and even if there were an Ephialtes among them, a spring through that loop-hole would save me. Be easy, my friend. Oracles and stars alike foretell me death from another cause than the treason of a slave."
In other words, in the laws of each state that merely sought to protect their own game, regardless of the game of neighboring states, there was not merely a loop-hole, but there was a gap wide enough to drive through with a coach and four. The ruffed grouse of Massachusetts and Connecticut often were butchered to make Gotham holidays in joyous contempt of the laws at both ends of the line.
So his expression changed to a wily smile, and he said: "What you-all ha'r fur ef th' Sheriff's up thar guardin' th' precious mine?" "Told to warn away any foolish town-clerks who might be heading straight to Kingdom Come! You know Bill likes to give every chump a loop-hole to save himself, if possible," retorted Mr. Brewster.
We can do nothing for them." "Well?" Pearson asked, looking round from his loop-hole as the farmer and his wife descended into the room, which was a low garret extending over the whole of the house. "Do you see the canoe?" "Yes, it has got safely away," William Welch said; "but what the lad will do now is more than I can say." Pearson placed his rifle against the wall.
Captain Stuart had placed in a loop-hole the muzzle of a firelock, which he sighted himself.
Not, I am thankful to say, that I have the faintest doubts about the Church of England, and I could subscribe cordially to every one of the thirty-nine articles which do indeed appear to me to be the ne plus ultra of human wisdom, and Paley, too, leaves no loop-hole for an opponent; but I am sure I should be running counter to your wishes if I were to conceal from you that I do not feel the inward call to be a minister of the gospel that I shall have to say I have felt when the Bishop ordains me.
But through this no passage could be effected, being scarce larger than a loop-hole for musketry, and apparently constructed for that purpose. "Are there no means by which I can assist your escape, my father?" said Halbert. "There are none, my son," answered the preacher; "but if thou wilt ensure my safety, that may be in thy power." "I will labour earnestly for it," said the youth.
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