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Updated: April 30, 2025
"And she's as big as Hessie Grimes!" exclaimed Jess on the other side, and catching her chum's idea. "Would you take Hester's part in the masquerade?" asked Laura pointblank. "But she doesn't belong to Central High!" wailed Lily Pendleton. "Nonsense!" exclaimed Jess. "What does it matter? This is all for a show. It is no competition with other members of the League."
So they were withdrawn to other redoubts in the rear, where a line of automatics placed under their rifles were in pointblank range of their old position which the Grays' shells would tear to pieces. Back of them was a brown carpet of waiting soldiery of as close a pile as Westerling's carpet of gray. The rain-drenched Brown engineers dug as fast as the enemy's.
Even Fanny winced at the pointblank denunciation of a young man, who was himself polite to everybody. She would have done it in a very different way insinuations, innuendo, etc. "They have found you out, old fellow," said Vizard, merrily; "but you need not look as if you had robbed a church. Hang it all! a fellow has got a right to gamble, if he chooses.
Abel leapt at the bridle rein, and when the rider bade him loose it, he lifted a revolver and fired twice pointblank. Ten minutes later, on their way back from the meeting and full of politics, there drove that way John Best, Nicholas Roberts and a Bridetown farmer. They found a man on his back in the middle of the road and a horse standing quietly beside him.
There was no thought for the cruel cowardice of his act but only overmastering gratitude that the enemy should be thus delivered helpless into his hand. Through the split part of a second that thrill passed tingling through and through him, then he shouted: "Perris!" and at the same instant whipped out the gun and fired pointblank.
"There are plenty of nice young fellows in your own crowd," Gower went on, still poking mechanically at the fire. "Why pick on young MacRae?" "You're evading, daddy," Betty murmured. "Why shouldn't I pick on Jack MacRae if I like him if he likes me? That's what I'm trying to find out." "Does he?" Gower asked pointblank. "Yes," Betty admitted in a reluctant whisper.
As the struggling, surging mass of blue riders rolled back in confusion, Stuart rode into the scene cheering his men. A man in blue, whose horse had been shot from under him, fired his revolver pointblank at Stuart. The shot entered his body just above the belt and the magnificent head with the waving plume drooped on his breast. Captain Dorsey hurried to his assistance.
The black man proceeded to force me to do this and his attempt nearly ended the experiment, for I refused pointblank to do it. "No, thank you," I said, "I will walk up and down until I dry." When the superintendent of that department was called into counsel, my use of English rather surprised him, and he let it go at that.
The sentinel stopped in his beat with a smothered exclamation. His back was to them and he was staring up at the open window of the house. There came a flash of light from the window another! Like lightning the sentinel raised his rifle and fired pointblank into the opening on the second floor. Then, with a shout, he dashed across the intervening space and disappeared within the house.
The morning of the day on which the dinner at the Rocher de Cancale was to take place, la Peyrade, weary of a performance which had ended by preoccupying his mind, went up to the woman and asked her pointblank if she had any request to make of him. "Monsieur," she answered, in a tone of solemnity, "is, I think, the celebrated Monsieur de la Peyrade, the advocate of the poor?"
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