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In a house near Regent's Park, standing in a garden, and shut from the street by a high wall, I saw a thing...! and what shapes a great city hid I now first know. I left no quarter unremembered, taking a train, no longer of four, but of eight, vehicles, drawn by an electric motor which I re-charged every morning, mostly from the turbine station in St.
On February 18th, 1661, Edward, Marquis of Worcester, obtained Letters Patent for "an invencon to make certeyne guns or pistolls which in the tenth parte of one minute of an houre may, with a flaske contrived to that purpose, be re-charged the fourth part of one turne of the barrell which remaines still fixt, fastening it as forceably and effectually as a dozen thrids of any scrue, which in the ordinary and usual way require as many turnes."
On February 18th, 1661, Edward, Marquis of Worcester, obtained Letters Patent for "an invencon to make certeyne guns or pistolls which in the tenth parte of one minute of an houre may, with a flaske contrived to that purpose, be re-charged the fourth part of one turne of the barrell which remaines still fixt, fastening it as forceably and effectually as a dozen thrids of any scrue, which in the ordinary and usual way require as many turnes."
The bosun had already re-charged the gun with grape, but when he fired, at a range which forbade the possibility of missing, there were only one or two cries instead of the chorus we had heard before. "Burst me if they be not lying down in the bottom," said Joe, standing at my side, "and the shot have passed clean over them." "And 'tis no good firing again," I said.
They charged and re-charged ten times in succession, and only gave way at last under pressure of greatly superior numbers.
Breathing heavily, I crammed my extinguished briar into my pocket re-charged the empty chamber of the revolver and started to run again toward a light that showed over the treetops to my left. That, if the man's directions were right, was "Uplands" if his directions were wrong then... A shrill whistle minor, eerie, in rising cadence sounded on the dead silence with piercing clearness!
With a feeling of indignation at such contemptuous treatment, George Rennie re-charged his gun in haste, vowing vengeance against the whole feline race a vow which he fully redeemed in after years.
Then last night from some unknown source came a new idea an inspiration and presto! the battery is re-charged, life again has its purposes, and I am eager to be at work. "I said 'some unknown source, but it was not altogether unknown.
Only a few of the balls reached the fugitives, and went skipping over the water, each wide of its mark. "Point high," said Magadar to Alizay, who had just re-charged his gun. The Indian obeyed, fired, and watched for the result, but no visible result followed.
Leo's rifle, being a breech-loader, was quickly re-charged, but as the rest of the party stood leaning on their spears with the evident intention of merely watching the combat, the youth resolved to hold his hand, despite Benjy's earnest recommendation to put one ball between the bear's eyes, and the other into his stomach. It was but a brief though decisive battle.
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