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Krantz and Philip had proposed to these men to join them and leave the island, but they had sullenly refused. The axe was now never parted with by Krantz. He cut down what cocoa-nut trees they required for subsistence, and prevented the men from notching more trees to procure the means of inebriation.
On the brow of Dombey, Time and his brother Care had set some marks, as on a tree that was to come down in good time remorseless twins they are for striding through their human forests, notching as they go while the countenance of Son was crossed with a thousand little creases, which the same deceitful Time would take delight in smoothing out and wearing away with the flat part of his scythe, as a preparation of the surface for his deeper operations.
The path was more easy than at first, however, there being but few fallen trunks, so I made much better progress. "I must get out of this," at last I said to myself; and so I continued moving on, occasionally notching a tree with my axe, if I thought my trail was not sufficiently distinct. "Of course they will follow," I thought more than once. I did not, indeed, entertain a doubt about it.
'Now, thought Guy, 'if I were sure of notching him, I'd do the speech part first; but as I'm not throwing truncheons being no honourable profession anywhere I'll reserve that. The rascal don't quail. We'll see how long he stands firm. The Goshawk cleared his wrist, fixed his eye, and swung the truncheon meditatively to and fro by one end.
The lower end was hollowed, and the shaft was inserted into it. The notching and feathering of the shaft were carefully attended to. It is doubtful whether three feathers were used, as by ourselves and by the Egyptians, or two only as by many nations.
Usually it is deficient in "stopping" power, but he had provided against this little drawback by notching all the cartridges in the six rifles after the effective manner devised by an expert named Thomas Atkins during the Tirah campaign. None of the Dyaks saw him.
It is a far cry from Boston to the land of broken mountain ranges, lone buttes, and irrigated mesas, and a still farther one from the veranda of an exclusive North Shore club to a private dining-room in the Inter-Mountain Hotel, whose entrance portico faces the Capitol grounds in the chief city of the Sage-brush State, whose eastern windows command a magnificent view of the Lost River Range, and from whose roof, on a clear day, one may see the snowy peaks of the Sierras notching the distant western horizon.
I was about as bewildered as the poor Indian who sought to take the census of London by notching a stick for every passer-by he met.
This sort of flooring has an elasticity alarming to strangers when they first tread on it. The sides of the houses are generally closed in with palupo, which is the bamboo opened and rendered flat by notching or splitting the circular joints on the outside, chipping away the corresponding divisions within, and laying it to dry in the sun, pressed down with weights.
He seemed to sense this, or something like it, and to know that whatever it was she was feeling, he could not help her now. Not yet. He continued his work, notching the poles with hard strokes from the side of his stone knife, as she moved bewilderedly back to her place.
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