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As he applied the hatchet to the fastenings, a thought struck him, and by the flickering light of the pine-knot blazing on the hearth, a look of hesitation might have been seen to take the place of the determined expression his face had worn up to that time. He had argued himself into the belief that his present action was lawful and justifiable.
You shall find the smutched lieutenant turning over its pages by the camp-fire, after a terrible scratch with the Sikhs; and within the same twenty-four hours you may fairly surmise that some green mountain volunteer, on the wrong side of the Rio Grande, has lighted a pine-knot, and is reading one of the Marlborough articles to his mess, with extemporary paralellisms in favour of General Taylor, which the shade of the great Churchill must not venture to overhear.
"Yes, do, Margaret," begged Nan. "It's going to rain harder. Don't hurt her, Rafe." "Yah! You couldn't hurt her," said Rafe. "She's as tough as a little pine-knot, and don't you forget it! Aren't you, Mag?" "Lemme go!" repeated Margaret, angrily. "What did you chase down here after me for?" asked Rafe, the curious. "I, I thought mebbe you was comin' to hunt for something," stammered the girl.
It gives, in pictures, with only a line or two of description, the progress of different industries such as the locomotive, from the clumsy engine of 1802 to the elaborate machinery of the present day; the evolution of lighting, from the pine-knot and tallow-dip to the electric light; methods of signalling, from the Indian fire-signal to the telegraph; time-keeping, etc.
One little, blanketed figure ran out of the darkness, caught Vic's face between her two palms, nestled her cheek against it, and with a cheerful "good-night," disappeared as suddenly as she had come. I took Vic in my lap as I sat on the ground, and by the light of a blazing pine-knot proceeded to examine her condition.
She looked down upon the floor of the piazza, fixing her eyes upon a pine-knot, patiently waiting, and wondering which way the grain of the wood ran. The silence continued. Every moment Alfred was conscious of an increasing nervousness. There were the Junonine shoulders the neck the downcast eyes moonlight the softened music. "Why don't you answer?" asked he, at length.
Ephraim found dry punk in a rotten log, and firing it with the flint and steel of a great king's musket one of his reavings from the enemy soon had a pine-knot torch for her. She gave it to the Catawba to hold; and while she was cooing over her patient and binding up his burns in some simples gathered near at hand by the Indian, I had the story of the double rescue from the old hunter.
There were nights when he shivered over a pine-knot fire in the shelter of a cutbank with the temperature fifteen degrees below zero. At this work he won the respect of his fellows. He could set his teeth and endure discomfort with any of them. It was at sharp danger crises that he had always quailed. He never shirked work or hardship, and he never lied to make the way easier or more comfortable.
"As long as you live, father," she said; and in that very letter she told me I should always have an open fire, and how she wouldn't let Jacob put in the air-tight in the sitting-room, but had the fireplace kept on purpose. Mary Ann was a good girl always, if I remember straight, and I'm sure I don't complain. Isn't that a pine-knot at the bottom of the basket? There! that's better.
He tossed the stick of a match into the fireplace, where a pine-knot smoldered, drew his pipe into a glow and watched Oscar screw the top on a box of ointment which he had applied to Armitage's arm. The little soldier turned and stood sharply at attention. "Yon are Mr. John Armitage, sir. A man's name is what he says it is. It is the rule of the country." "Thank you, Oscar. Your words reassure me.
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