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"Of the man at Runner's Woe?" the doctor asked. "No, zur. He on'y done murder. 'Twas not o' he. 'Twas o' something sadder than that." "Then 'tis too sad to tell," he said. "No," I insisted. "'Twould do well-fed folk good t' hear it." "What was it?" my sister asked. "I was thinkin' " Ah, but 'twas too sad! "O' what?" "O' the child at Comfort Harbour, Bessie, that starved in his mother's arms."
He simply ran, pumping his legs frantically as if all the devils of hell were after him. His body swayed from side to side in exhaustion, but his arms and legs pumped on. "Stop him!" Jake ordered, and Lou swung the tractor. It halted squarely in the runner's path, and the figure struck against it and toppled.
But Val, too, had seen the print. "Confederate money, child. As useless now as our pretty oil stock. I told you that things always turn out wrong in this house. If we do find treasure, it's worthless. How much is there, anyway?" Rupert picked up a slip of paper tucked under the tape fastening the first bundle. "This says thirty-five thousand profit from a blockade runner's trip."
The accomplishment of a human being is measured by his strength, or by his nice tact in using his strength. The distance to which your gun, whether rifled or smooth-bored, will carry its shot, depends upon the force of its charge. A runner's speed and endurance depends upon his depth of chest and elasticity of limb.
After the fashion of dancers, he was dressed in a close vest of red silk, which, ending in a short hoop- petticoat, like a runner's apron, floated above the knee. We had given our meed of applause to this young artist with the whole public, when, I know not how, it occurred to me to make a moral reflection.
Besides grief there was fury in the runner's heart, wrath against Owen for encouraging this foolish and dangerous caprice, against the unfortunate driver who had failed to preserve his precious freight, and against nature who condemns every living thing by one means or another to that same final failure and wreck death.
Running toward the opponent, the tackler leaves the ground when at a distance of a length and a half and dives at the runner, aiming to tackle a few inches below the hips. A dive tackle well done always accomplishes a well-defined pause in the runner's progress. Joel was having hard work of it.
"That's fine!" he shouted. "This runner's out of business!" Roy ran to the rear where the car had stopped and found underneath the snow a rocky ledge. "She hit this!" he exclaimed. "Can't we tie her up?" Norman was plainly in doubt but they cleared away the surrounding snow and found that, instead of a single break, a section of the runner had been shattered.
The man was heavily built about the legs, and the vigor of what he did may have been additionally inspired by his recognition of the mongrel as Joe Louden's. The impact of his toe upon the little runner's side was momentous, and the latter rose into the air. The Judge hopped, as one hops who, unshod in the night, discovers an unexpected chair.
It is possible that Burrows intended only to disable the horse he was a good enough shot to do that without endangering his rider. But as Pearson stooped the ball went through his shoulder and then through Road Runner's neck. The horse fell and the cowman pitched over his head into the hard road, and neither of them tried to move. Burrows rode on without stopping.
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