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These tapestries, well preserved in those parts where light has scarcely penetrated, are framed in bands of oak now black as ebony. The ceiling has projecting rafters enriched with foliage which is varied for each rafter; the space between them is filled with planks painted blue, on which twine garlands of golden flowers.
The boat in which it had been arranged that Hickey, Divver and Rafter were to take passage had been appropriated by the boys. "A thousand evils light upon them," raged Ramon, as he stood dripping on the bank of the stream. "It is a hundred to one that they also seize the three horses I had reserved for your use, gentlemen."
Weeds were growing between the rotting boards and in one corner a hornets' nest as big as their heads hung from a sagging rafter. "Gee," muttered Amy, "I'm glad we didn't accidentally disturb that, Clint!" In the doorway they stood and tried to re-enact the happenings of the night.
And now his right-hand was nearly on a level with the floor of the bridge, and he was stretching out his left hand to grasp one of the rails, when his foot suddenly slipping on a sloping rafter, he lost his hold altogether, and, to the horror of his companions, fell with a heavy thud on to the rails beneath him! "Joe, Joe speak, man! Are you hurt?" cried Ned. No answer.
It was Rafter who drawled out the words, and, as he spoke, he held a revolver leveled at the professor's head. "Better drop the varmint, perfuss," directed Pete, from the ground, "they've got us hog-tied and ready fer the brand." "By ginger!
I lay down and lifted my gun ready to take the first that came between me and the sky." His voice had fallen to an undernote, and his glance rested an absent moment on the circle of light on the rafter above an electric lamp. "When it did, and I blazed, the whole flock rose. I winged two.
"In urle quae famoso nomine Oxnaford nuncupatur," to quote a document of Cnut's. Dipl. With this meeting we leave that Oxford before the Conquest, of which possibly not one stone, or one rafter, remains.
The old gray house by the roadside, abandoned, desolate, with a bittersweet vine entwined around the chimney and a raspberry bush pushing up through the rotted doorsill, takes us back to the days when the pioneer's axe rang in this clearing, hewing the timbers for beam and rafter, and the smoke of the first fire went up that ample flue.
Zeke, being the owner of a pair of huge, dilapidated boots, hanging from a rafter like saddlebags, the doctor succeeded in exchanging for them a case-knife, the last valuable article in his possession. For myself, I made sandals from a bullock's hide, such as are worn by the Indians in California.
"I'll I'll do it, then, Merrill; but for Heaven's sake, don't betray me." "You need not fear that," rejoined Jack, with a touch of scorn in his voice. "I have given my word." "Say, young feller, hev yer found a gold mine up thar?" shouted Rafter. "What is detaining you, Señor Harding," came Madero's voice.
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