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Leslie and the ladies saw Ashton beside the inner door. He was striving to assume an air of easy assurance, but the doorknob, which he still grasped, rattled audibly. "You!" rasped Mr. Leslie. "What you doing in here skulking in here?" Ashton cringed back, all the assurance stricken from his face. "You you believe him!" he stammered. "But it's not fair!
He raised a warning hand, which compelled the Lord Giovanni to pause; then he rasped out a brisk command to his followers. The winches creaked, and the drawbridge swung up even as with a clank and rattle of chains the portcullis fell. That done, he came forward to impart the ominous news which one of his riders had brought him at the gallop from the Porta Romana.
Then the barge rasped among the reeds where Arthur sat on his horse, and the lady said: 'Greeting to you, O king! 'Greeting, fair damsel! replied Arthur. 'What sword is that which the arm holdeth above the water? I would it were mine, for I have none.
"I guess I take the line of the least resistance like the majority of them," was the colorless reply. "When it comes down to practical politics " "Don't say 'practical politics' to me, Dick!" rasped the reformer. "We've got the strongest argument in the world in the fact that the present law is an unfair one, needing modification or repeal.
Whereupon Dol slowly carried his head to left and right, as he had seen the guide do on the previous night, raising and lowering the horn until it had described an enormous figure of eight in the air, while he groaned, sighed, rasped, and bellowed with a plaintive intensity of expression, which caused his brother and his friend to shriek with laughter.
Why should we endanger our necks by waiting his convenience?" "But surely you forget what he has done for us. You are forgetting that he has rescued you from the guillotine, dragged you out of the very jaws of death. Do you think that to forsake him now would be a fair, an honest return?" "But name of a name," rasped the Vicomte, "does he not say that he is far from despairing?
Cochran claims that, not only are horses with dropped soles that would otherwise have to be put off the streets enabled to do a fair amount of work by means of this shoe, but that continually wearing it, meanwhile keeping the convexity of the front of the hoof rasped thin, in time brings about a marked improvement, and that after some months or years of use the animals are able to work with ordinary rubber-pad shoes, provided they are arranged to facilitate breaking over.
Then he opened the exit-port, and faced armed men in the darkness, with blast-rifles trained on him. There was a portable cannon trained on the Med Ship itself. "Come out!" rasped a voice. "If you try anything you get blasted! Your ship and its contents are seized by the planetary government!" It seemed that the smell of hunger was in the air. The armed men were cadaverous.
"Come on, Mitt," came from O'Day, "burn a few hot ones over! Make him dizzy!" "Get back from the plate!" rasped Bender, as Barney took his position. "Get back, or you'll get hit!" "Hit him if he crowds," came from Holmes; "but don't kill him. You know you killed one man last year and broke another man's jaw." "Go ahead and hit him," came from Clover. "He's Irish, and you can't kill him."
But when we were almost near enough to shoot, the herd suddenly swerved heading directly away from us. In an instant we were enveloped in a whirling cloud of dust through which the flying animals were dimly visible like phantom figures. Khan was choked, and his hot breath rasped sharply through his nostrils, but he plunged on and on into that yellow cloud.
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