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The boy lunged against Drew’s pinioning arm. "Now he says we are horse thieves! Tell that to us before the Don Cazar!" Shannon curled the quirt lash about his wrist. "Don’t think I won’t, Mex! don’t like havin’ his colt crop whittled down. You—" Those blue eyes, brilliant, yet oddly shallow and curtained, met Drew’s for the second time.
These men, who were unarmed, rose and made as though to leave the isi-gohlo. But as they passed Mameena one of them suddenly threw his arms about her, pinioning her arms, the other tearing off the kaross he wore for the weather was cold flung it over her head and knotted it behind her so that she was hidden except for her ankles and feet.
He saw the same office performed upon others, and saw them stripped of money, pocket-books, watches, rings, buckles, and whatever else of value they happened to possess. One man, a priest, was even deprived of his shoes by a ruffian who was in want of foot-gear. As they were pinioning his wrists, Leroy looked up. He confesses that he was scared. "What is this for?" he asked. "Does it mean death?"
The hangman, who on a former occasion had been in the hands of Riel as a prisoner, commenced the work of pinioning the doomed man, and then the melancholy procession soon began to wend its way toward the scaffold, which had been erected for Khonnors, the Hebrew, and soon came in sight of the noose. Deputy-Sheriff Gibson went ahead, then came Father McWilliams, next Riel, then Father Andre, Dr.
He bent his head. Their lips met and clung. A knock fell upon the door. They started, and Wilding raised his hands gently to disengage her pinioning arms. "I must go, sweet," he said. "God help me!" she moaned, and clung to him still. "It is I who am killing you I and your love for me. For it was to save me you rode hither to-night, never pausing to weigh your own deadly danger.
Pat Rooney was sitting on his chest, his knees pinioning his arms, and clutching each of his broad shoulders with a vigorous hand. He was not half the size of the prostrate giant, but love and fury lent him unnatural strength. His flour-bedecked face worked convulsively, his eyes gleamed under their powdered lashes. Elleney uttered a stifled scream, and then stood transfixed with horror.
Billy was about to ask, when he felt himself seized from behind and a voice hissed in his ear: "Well, Master Barnes, we've got you where we want you." At the same instant a stout rope was drawn about him, pinioning his arms to his sides.
The iron hoops were taken off a meat cask, and by a blacksmith in the company fitted round his ankles, knees, and arms, pinioning the latter to his body, so that, excepting his head, which was 'left free to enjoy the prospect, he could not move a muscle.
With a cry of rage he suddenly dashed the cat he held aloft to the ground, and then threw himself to the ground backward, pinioning the cat beneath him. The cat screamed angrily, and succeeded in squirming from beneath Stubbs; but instead of running away it launched itself directly at Stubbs' face. Stubbs threw up his arm just in time and caught the animal by the neck.
Thompson, armed with authority and a heaver, soon made his appearance among them, and with the assistance of the sober ones, after a severe struggle, succeeded in mastering and pinioning the two men, who, though in full possession of their physical faculties, were actually crazed with alcoholic drinks.
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