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But by this time the Spanish gunners had managed to locate the position of the weapon that was punishing them so fearfully, and from that moment they devoted their attention exclusively to it, with the result that shells began to drop thick and fast about Jack's ears, smothering and half-blinding him with dust, and occasionally peppering him pretty smartly with the pebbles and fragments of stone that were mingled with the earth of which his battery was composed.
"A Horse! a Horse!" Breakfast. Position. Disposition. Meeting of particular Friends. Dish of Powder and Ball. Fricassee of Swords. End of First Course. Pounding. Brewing. Peppering. Cutting and Maiming. Fury. Tantalizing. Charging. Cheering. Chasing. Opinionizing. Anecdotes. The End. 18th June, 1815. When I awoke, this morning, at daylight, I found myself drenched with rain.
"Fire! fire, my friends! and send all those English to perdition." He was under the belief that the boats had just come in a direct line with his guns, and that every shot would tell on them. The Spaniards and blacks were not slow to obey the order. Off went the guns, and the small-arm men began peppering away till the whole fort was in a cloud of smoke.
Sure they have their chaplains to pray for them but my soul to glory those that pray by proxy will go to heaven by proxy and so they ought. Eh faith I'm peppering you." "De te fabula narratur. Don't you live by praying for others? What are your masses?" "Fabula, why, a fibula for your fabula, man alive. What is your new fangled creed, but a fabula from the beginning?"
For one moment she stood half paralyzed. She thought of everything, of the cattle, of the chance for being buried in this drift, of the stock of provisions, of the power of endurance of the children. While she was still thinking, the first ice-needles of the blizzard came peppering the windows.
The sand was plowed up by his side from the peppering of bullets but he seemed to feel that innocent unconscious arm about his great neck; the yells of rage were in his ears, but he heard the soft breathing of the little one fast asleep in the midst of her dangers.
No!" they pleaded. "You can't if we're caught you won't be killed but murdered, tortured! We're the only ones who have a right to fire!" "But they've been peppering my cart regardless of my sex!" "That's perhaps their way of waging war, but not ours. Now then, off you go quickly." We disappeared behind a clump of trees and tore down the clear road as fast as our horses would carry us.
No local Laureate has as yet written it up, though picnic parties used to gather themselves together on its banks and in its well-wooded shades, defiling everything they touched from bark to beach, leaving bits of bread here, dead pie there, buttering the leaves, peppering the grass, salting the stones, and scattering greasy crumpled paper PAPER PAPER everywhere.
Solander, seeing this, gave him a peppering with small Shott, which sent him off and made them retire a Second time. They attempted to rally several times after, and only seem'd to want some one of resolution to head them; but they were at last intirely dispers'd by the Ship firing a few shott over their Heads and a Musquet now and then from us.
I got scratched all over, but that was not so bad as the thought of the bullets that were peppering through the hedge on all sides of me; however, I was extricated at last, though I left most of the back part of my uniform behind, and we proceeded at full speed on our way. We had not gone far, however, when our poor sergeant was shot down.
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