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The almost endless number, the peculiarity of vehicles of all description, drawn by miserable horses, loaded with sacks of flour, clothing and furniture, with sick women and children, constituted a great danger, for the question was, how could the army maneuvre with such an impediment and, above all, defend itself against the Cossacks?
"Whose head is that over there?" "You lie down, John," said Willis. "But there's somebody else here!" cried John, with a queer note in his voice; and with that, he scrambled back over us both. The space was all too narrow for such a maneuvre, and his knees felt hard. "Now look here," said Willis. "You quit that!" But John was climbing through the hole to the barn floor above.
An instantaneous photograph of such a maneuvre, taken at the moment of incidence, would probably turn the stomach of even the most romantic man, and force him, in sheer self-respect, to renounce kissing as he has renounced leap-frog and walking on stilts. What is one to say to the woman then? The occasion obviously demands some sort of remark. Is one to thank her?
He's got on another uniform. I think it's a Frank admiral's uniform. There go the Frank guns. He's passing their fleet." "Yes, it is a Frank naval uniform," said a foreign officer near them, as he scrutinized the deck with his glasses. Before each of the fleets the same maneuvre was carried out.
She paused near a sword, extended one arm, and sustaining herself on a single hand she bent the elbow until she kissed the floor; then she stiffened the muscles, raising herself back to her first position, and throughout this whole maneuvre the cutting edge grazed her breast without even abrading the skin. When the girl finished her act the guests applauded vigorously.
It had been a swift maneuvre on Jack's part, and it might have disconcerted a younger man and driven him into ill-considered action. But it was not this man's nature to act upon impulse. His caution was well known. It had been his safeguard in many a difficulty. It stood him in good stead now.
When the "Baleine" was almost touching the cask, the "Zephir," by a bold maneuvre, managed to pass in front of her and throw the cask to the left, where La Queue harpooned it with a thrust of the boat-hook. "The 'Zéphir'! the 'Zéphir!" screamed the Floches. And the Emperor, having spoken of foul play, big words were exchanged. Margot clapped her hands.
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