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"Well, I crawled up so close that I saw a Britisher going the round of the sentinels, and I pounced on him and brought him out on the run, that's all." "Oho! you both ran away, then? That wasn't good soldiering either, was it, Zeke?" commented Stokes, in his dry way.
A sea-eagle ing aloft, it was her father who had been changed into that form, seeing her, pounced down upon her, and struck her with his beak and claws. In terror she let go the ship and would have fallen into the water, but some pitying deity changed her into a bird.
"If it didn't please a woman to believe in God," he said, "and God came in Person and stood in front of her, she would run out of the room and call upon somebody to come and shoot Him for a burglar, just to prove she was right." Phyllis was shocked. Her feminine mind pounced on the gross literalness of his rhetorical figure.
But the troublesome prisoners baffled his vigilance, and turned their prison into a meeting-house, and held their conventicles in defiance of him. The Reverend Justice pounced upon them on one occasion, with his attendants. An old, gray-haired man, formerly a strolling fencing-master, was preaching when he came in.
"Hurry up, and find yours, the rest of you," said Tom suddenly, "I'm fixed and I'm ready to eat." Every one pounced upon him, to discover that he had chosen to install himself at a place marked The Whiskered One. "I'm the only fellow here who ever wore a mustache," he said, "so it's plain, though rather far-fetched." "It's not your place, though, Tom, truly," said Bertha.
She rose to examine the mountains, strolled away, darted down a gully, and pounced on Milt Daggett with: "How in heaven's name " "Found out where you-all were going. Look! Got a bug! Rented it. Come on! Let's duck! Drive back with me!" At the end of the gully was a new Teal bug, shinier than the ancient lost chariot, but equally gay and uncomfortable. "Can't. Like to, but Be awfully rude to them.
"Magnificent!" ventured Jules, rubbing his hands and moving his limbs in a most unladylike fashion, in such masculine manner, in fact, that the cautious Henri, ever on the look-out for something which might attract the attention of enemies swarming about them, immediately pounced upon him. "That's not right," he said; "no girl would sit like that, Jules, and you know it.
Not unobserved, however; for straightway two elegant gentlemen they might have been Russian princes pounced upon her and led her to that underground operating-room where a kindly physician is in perennial attendance. He brushed aside her explanations. "It would be a thousand pities for so charming a lady to poison herself.
The flash and the loud report must have dazed the lion for a second or two, enabling Whitehead to disengage himself; but the next instant the brute pounced like lightning on the unfortunate Abdullah, with whom he at once made off. As the lion was dragging him over the bank, Whitehead fired again, but without effect, and the brute quickly disappeared into the darkness with his prey.
In an instant down pounced his companions, driving their beaks into the dead body; and in a few minutes, while it still remained in sight, they had torn it almost to pieces. "I hope no harm will come of that shot of yours," I said to the young civilian; "but look out!" The young gentleman laughed, and said he did not believe in such nonsense.
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