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Updated: May 27, 2025
Quick as a flash the brave priest stepped before, the cowering child, and, with one hand still resting protectingly on the girl's fair hair, he raised the other in stern and fearless protest, and boldly faced the murderous throng. "Back, men of blood!" he cried. "Back! Nor dare to lay hand on this young maid who hath here sought sanctuary!"
She saw it strike upon a mound of dead Moon-beasts; saw the homely, human features as the body rolled to the floor; and it was she who threw herself upon it protectingly when one of the enemy wounded dragged his broken wings trailing across the stone that he might reach that human face with his distended claws. "A man!" Anita Haldgren screamed. "It's a man help me!"
The vast city had, as it were, veiled her greatness and her tragedy; she offered herself kindly and protectingly to these two to their happiness and their youth. George made his companion wait beside the parapet and look, while he himself drew in the air with a sort of hunger. "To think of the hours we spend in this climate," he said, "caged up in abominable places like the House of Commons!"
"Do you feel afraid?" asked her host, looking protectingly down upon the tiny figure at his side. "Not a mite," she declared. "I never was one of the scary kind." They had left the mountains behind them and were speeding to the eastward. It seemed to her that a few hours of this rapid progress would bring them to the very shores of the Atlantic.
There was silence, and those at the back of the lodge crowded forward in order not to miss what was to come. Then Powhatan spoke: "Rise, Matoaka! and dare not to interfere with my justice!" "Nay, father," cried Pocahontas, lifting her head while her arms still lay protectingly about Smith's neck, "I claim this man from thee.
To complete it, she seated herself in a chair by the side of the little chair, and protectingly drew under her arm the spare hand that crept up to her. 'This is what your loving Jenny Wren calls the best time in the day and night, said the person of the house. Her real name was Fanny Cleaver; but she had long ago chosen to bestow upon herself the appellation of Miss Jenny Wren.
Pivoting slightly for an instant he fell loosely at full length on his own paillasse, and lay sobbing and roaring, one elbow protectingly raised, interspersing the inarticulations of woe with a number of sincerely uttered "Assez!'s". Meanwhile The Zulu had discovered the whereabouts of his treasure, had driftingly resumed his original position; and was quietly inserting the also-captured cigarette which appeared somewhat confused by its violent aerial journey.
And he saw no light for him He thrashed in darkness. He had nothing, now, to give, no power longer to deprive. She had given all she possessed, the memorial of her kind which would outlast monuments. It was Alison who crossed the room swiftly. She laid her hand protectingly on Kate Marcy's shoulder, and stooped, and kissed her. She turned to her father. "It is her right," she said.
Every nerve of the horses was strained as they dashed recklessly along the road. The two men held Mimi between them, the arms of both of them round her as though protectingly. As they went, there was a sudden rise in the ground; but the horses, breathing heavily, dashed up it at racing speed, not slackening their pace when the hill fell away again, leaving them to hurry along the downgrade.
As she sat there in growing panic, a great bat-like creature, immense and shadowy, swooped soundlessly by her. She shrank back with another cry, and found Nick Ratcliffe's arm thrust protectingly about her. "It's all right," he said, in a matter-of-fact tone. "You're not frightened at flying-foxes, are you?"
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