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It didn't matter! Back of it was another. He was "pocketed!" Hell, no wonder Thunderbolt was ahead of the outlaw mare! Half-way around the quarter-turn he pulled the filly down. She slackened ever so little. Thunderbolt the horse at her side all of them shot ahead. He was behind the bunch clear of the field! The crowd saw the filly dart to the right.
Literate First Class Elliot C. Mongery, revealed by a quick left quarter-turn of the pickup camera, wore the same starchy white smock, the same Sam Browne belt glittering with the badges of the organizations and corporations for whom he was authorized to practice Literacy.
Not a word was spoken by any of the party at the Clagstone "Six" as the five fastest horses ever on the Eagle Butte track swept past the car toward the first quarter-turn of the course. Carolyn June's face was as white as marble. Her breast heaved and fell as if it would burst. Dry-eyed, every nerve tense, she stared at the straining racers.
In conclusion, the class made a quarter-turn to the right and as they thus stood in parallel rows, took hold of each other's hands. At teacher's command, they swung their arms back and forth vigorously to an accompaniment of the inevitable "one-two, one-two." John's was a back seat, thanks to skillful maneuvering on the opening day of school, and flaxen-haired Olga occupied the desk ahead.
Time passed and still the mechanics did not come. At last, there being now sufficient light, we tied the aeroplane with ropes to a fence, so as to prevent its leaping forward, and then started up the motor by ourselves. I swung the nine-foot propeller the only way of starting the engine; and at the first quarter-turn the motor began to fire.
This second hawser should be hauled tight round at the end of each successive quarter-turn gained by the men.
He gave the wheel a quarter-turn to starboard, took down the transmitter and said: "Full speed again in two minutes, three quarters and then half." "But surely," exclaimed Lennard, "you can do something to help those poor fellows. Are you going to leave them all to drown?" "I have no orders, except to sink and destroy," replied Erskine between his teeth.
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