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It was a different crowd that gathered in the Blues' dressing rooms in the interval that followed. That threat against their goal line was the electric spark that was necessary in order to shock them into action. They were worked up to fighting pitch. Their eyes were blazing, their features grim, and "Bull" Hendricks, who was primed to lash them to the bone with his bitter tongue, wisely forebore.
Against this eventuality the latter appear to have been primed "with Dutch courage," as the saying went, the manner of which was to broach a cask of rum and drink your fill. On the approach of the press-boats pandemonium broke loose.
Raoul ordered the sweeps of le Feu-Follet to be run out and manned. At the same time her guns, twelve-pound carronades, were cast loose and primed. Of these she had four of a side, while the two sixes on her forecastle were prepared for similar service. When everything was ready, the twelve sweeps dropped into the water, as by a common instinct, and a powerful effort started the lugger ahead.
They had heard all that had passed in the teepee, and, while affecting to pay no attention to Charley, were primed for him showing that men in a crowd are much the same white or red. Charley was a skinny, anxious-looking little man, withered and blackened as last year's leaves, ugly as a spider. His self-conscious braggadocio invited derision. "Huh!" cried one. "Here come woman-Charley.
Zimmer said that all this proceeded from the evil drugs which the doctors invented. "Do you see that tall, thin fellow?" he asked. "Well, that man can boast of having killed more men than a field-piece; he is always primed, with his match lighted; and that little brown fellow I would send him instead of the Emperor to the Russians and Prussians; he would kill more of them than a whole army corps."
Barndale, languidly stretching himself, arose, adjusted his hat, took a great drink of iced beer, and, being thereby in some degree primed for conversation, spoke. 'That you, Jimmy? said Mr. Barndale. 'Billy, my boy? said the awakener, 'how are you? 'Thought you were in Oude, or somewhere, said Mr. Barndale. 'Been back six months, the other answered. 'Anybody with you here?
John Fry was everything: it was 'run and fetch my horse, John' 'John, are my pistols primed well? 'I want you in the stable, John, about something very particular', until except for the rudeness of it, I was longing to tell Master Stickles that he ought to pay John's wages.
The pistols being charged and primed, and we aligned forenent each other at the convenient distance of twelve paces, the word was given to fire, and both weapons having been discharged, and the smoke having cleared away, Sir Hew was discovered fallen to the ground, procumbus humi, and exanimate. The blood was flowing freely from a face-wound, and my unhappy kinsman was senseless.
'Parades with her brother at night; old military cap on her head; firearms primed; sings her Austrian mountain songs or the Light Cavalry call, till it rings all day in my ears she has a thrilling contralto. You are not to think her wild, my lord. She's for adventure or domesticity, "whichever the Fates decree." She really is coming to the perfect tone. 'Speak of her, said the earl.
"But, my goodness, it is a good lesson for me! I'll never try to scare anybody else again as I did poor Zachariah." He stooped and, feeling among the weeds, recovered not one but both of the long duelling pistols. "I was after bigger game than you," he muttered. "Here are my pistols, all primed and ready for business." She stretched out her hand and touched one of the weapons.
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