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"I understand you, my lord," interrupted the highwayman. "What do you value your watch at?" "Humph! to you it may be worth some twenty guineas." "Allow me to see it!" "Your curiosity is extremely gratifying," returned the nobleman, as with great reluctance he drew forth a gold repeater, set, as was sometimes the fashion of that day, in precious stones. The highwayman looked slightly at the bauble.
Tapster felt rather shaken and nervous; he pulled out his repeater watch, but, alas! it was still very early only ten minutes to nine. He couldn't go to bed yet. Perhaps he would do well to join a club. He had always thought rather poorly of men who belonged to clubs most of them were idle, lazy fellows; but still, circumstances alter cases.
Claudius Bagshaw, with all his literature, science, and philosophy, now, for the first time, wondered how anything could fail, so much trouble having been taken to insure success. Drawing forth his repeater, he ahem'd, and just muttered, "Unaccountable! Hem! upon my word! One o'clock, and no pleasure yet!" "One o'clock!" echoed his spouse; "then 'tis time for your eye, dear!"
He was next engaged at Fort Wayne, and behaved so well that he was promoted to a station at Indianapolis. While there he invented an 'automatic repeater, by which a message is received on one line and simultaneously transmitted on another without the assistance of an operator.
He led the way without more ado, but it was with serious misgivings that I stumbled up a darkened stair in the rear of my greatly daring friend. A pistol cracked in the darkness and my fez was no longer on my head! Harley's repeater answered, and we stumbled through a heavily curtained door into a heated room, the air of which was laden with some Eastern perfume.
Now Orme, who was behind me, fired also, knocking up the dust beneath the lioness's belly, but although he had more cartridges in his rifle, which was a repeater, before either he or I could get another chance, it vanished behind a mound.
Hopalong ran forward for a short distance and slid down the steep bank of a narrow arroyo and waited, the repeater thrust out through the dense fringe of grass and shrubs which bordered the edge. When settled to his complete satisfaction and certain that he was effectually screened from the sight of any one in front of him, he arose on his toes and looked around for his companion, and laughed. Mr.
"Now, look here, Dick," said Jackson, quickly, "you will go down and open the front gate. I'll go with 'ee wi' my repeater to keep an eye on the hidden reptiles, so that if one of them shows so much as the tip of his ugly nose he'll have cause to remember it. You will go to my loophole, Crux, an keep your eyes open all round specially on the horses.
It's them things that is killing off all the small game. Some day they'll invent a scattergun that is a pump repeater like them new rifles, and when every fool has one they'll wonder where all the small game has gone to. "No, sir, I'm agin them. Bows and arrows is less destructful an' calls for more Woodcraft an' give more sport that is, for small game.
Moses had only shown him watches with the hour and minute hands; he now produced one with a second hand, telling him it was a repeater. "What makes it a repeater?" inquired the boatswain. "Common watches," said the cunning Jew, "only tell the minutes and hours; but all repeaters tell the seconds."
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