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Updated: May 19, 2025
But now Jennings groaned. "No, it hasn't. But that's because it's too true to keep on seeming funny." Brown suddenly brought his fist down on the arm of Jennings's rocker with a thump which made his nerve-strung visitor jump in his chair. "It isn't true! It's not the saying of a brave man, it's the whine of a coward. Brave men don't say that sort of thing.
The next moment, with a shout, he was on his feet in the middle of the floor, and the nerve-strung boy had fainted. As the lad sank forward his "pistol" fell from his hand and rolled into the light. From Burns came an inarticulate cry, his jaw dropped, his eyes started in his head. Muskoka halted in his stride, wet his lips and muttered incredulous words of admiration and amazement.
"Well, I do," I offered. "For one thing, she's changed her name. And it happens this isn't the first time she's well, damn it all, fourteen years ago I helped pick up this whatever-she-is off the Virginia Capes in the same sort of condition. There you are!" I was yapping like a nerve-strung puppy.
She had suffered much, and was still overwrought and nerve-strung: for some reason she could not afterwards have explained, she felt spiteful and uncontrolled, goaded into stupid fury by the look of insolence and of triumph with which Candeille calmly regarded her.
Speaking like an omen from the deepest shadow, the sweeper called to Jaimihr. "Sahib, thy palace burns! Sahib, thy prisoner runs! Haste, sahib! Call thy men and hasten back! Thy palace is in flames the Rangars come to " As a raven, disturbed into night omen-croaking, he sent forth his news from utter blackness into nerve-strung tension.
It was a bright moonlight night, and save for the deep shadows of the houses and hedges as clear as day. Tensely nerve-strung, open-mouthed and wild-eyed stood the group for what seemed to them hours. In a few minutes a white figure was seen emerging from the pigsty. The watchers were transfixed in terror. Most of them clutched at each other nervously. Old Mrs.
Cody has made the warriors of all nations join hands. "In one act we see the Indian, with his origin shrouded in history's mysterious fog; the cowboy nerve-strung product of the New World; the American soldier, the dark Mexican, the glittering soldier of Germany, the dashing cavalryman of France, the impulsive Irish dragoon, and that strange, swift spirit from the plains of Russia, the Cossack.
There was a leaden, breathless silence, while Alex nervously clenched and unclenched his hands. At last the line again clicked open, and with a characteristic deliberation that caused the nerve-strung boy a moment's hysterical laugh, "B" announced: "Just got her. She's slowing in now. What's up?"
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