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"And now, since you are no longer guest of mine, we will resume our talk of Fayal in the Azores. Your gossips lied, sir; and he who, not staying to examine a quarrel, becomes a repeater of lies, may chance upon a summer day, in a tavern such as this, to be called a liar. My cartel, sir!" He flung his glove, which scarce had felt the floor before the other snatched it up.
Cuff, on the contrary, was the great chief and dandy of the Swishtail Seminary. He smuggled wine in. He fought the town-boys. Ponies used to come for him to ride home on Saturdays. He had his top-boots in his room in which he used to hunt in the holidays. He had a gold repeater, and took snuff like the Doctor. He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr.
The boatswain was satisfied bought the watch, and, although many had told him it was no repeater, he insisted that it was, and would call it so. "I swear," continued the boatswain, "it's ten minutes and twenty seconds by my repeater." "If you please, sir," said the boy, "I was changing my trousers when you sent for me, and then I had to stow away my bag again."
Toussaint made his repeater strike: it was three o'clock. As his mind grew calm under the settlement of his purposes, he became aware of the thirst which his agitation had excited. By the light of the flitting tapers, he poured out water, refreshed himself with a deep draught, and then addressed himself to his duty. He could rarely endure delay in acting on his convictions.
But since the Sharps shot a special cartridge and was reliable up to the limit of its sight gauge, a matter of eighteen hundred yards, he did not regard the hit as anything worthy of especial mention. Not so his friend, who grinned joyously and loosed his admiration. "Yo're a shore wonder with that gun, Red! Why don't you lose that repeater an' get a gun like mine?
The Union cavalryman was armed with a single-shot carbine the seven-shot Spencer repeater was not to make its battlefield appearance until late in 1863 and one revolver, giving him a total of seven shots without reloading. With a pair of six-shooters, Mosby had a five-shot advantage over any opponent he was likely to encounter.
In addition to his lamp, therefore, he had now a repeater in his room; the sound was at first too loud, but, after muffling the hammer with cloth, both the ticking and the striking became companionable sounds to him.
At school he attempted to kill a companion the one act of violence which sullies a strangely gentle career; and outraged at the affront of a flogging, he fled with twelve guineas and a gold repeater watch. A vulgar theft this, and no presage of future greatness; yet it proves the fearless greed, the contempt of private property, which mark as with a stigma the temperament of the prig.
"Not the same make as my father's. His is gold, of course, and when you open it, there's a cap fits right over the top just over there. His is a repeater, and when you touch a spring, it strikes the quarters and the hours." Mercer looked on as if fascinated. "Like a clock," said Hodson. "Of course it does like a clock," said Burr major contemptuously. "It's jewelled, too, in ever so many holes.
He selected two express 400 bores, a Metford express and a smooth-bore Winchester repeater. Then he filled his pockets with cartridges, and from a small box took a handful for his revolver. All this he did in a sort of sobbing haste, turning nervous eyes always to the mouth of the cañon.
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