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Updated: May 8, 2025
The tiger made no attempt to turn into the jungle; he was hunting for sight and breath nose up, mouth open, the tremendous fore-legs scattering the gravel in spurts. "Scuppered!" said John Chinn, watching the flight. "Now if he was a partridge he'd tower. Lungs must be full of blood." The brute had jerked himself over a boulder and fallen out of sight the other side.
He told me that one dhow was boarded while he was up the Gulf, when the Arabs, waiting until most of the boat's crew of bluejackets were on board, suddenly let go the halyards of their great sail and let it down crash over the lot, the boom breaking many heads and the sail burying our seamen, while the Arabs got to work and practically scuppered the crowd. Soon after 4 a.m.
And look at the way we were shelled, and our Artillery shelled back. There was a pretty fair imitation of a first-class battle for a bit, and most likely there would have been one if we hadn't scuppered that attack. And don't forget the bombing we stuck out and the casualties. Doesn't every one tell us they were extra heavy?
Brinton." The officer went out of the sap into the fire trench. "And get a move on with it." He stood for a few moments, looking thoughtful. "I hope," he muttered to himself, "I hope the old boy hasn't been scuppered." But the old boy had been scuppered. A runner failed to discover him in the trench; two strong patrols scoured the ground around the chalk 'ummock and drew blank.
The wounded seaman was breathing his last when they reached his side. They could not have prolonged his life had they remained with him. Jack Cockrell stroked his damp forehead and murmured: "Farewell to ye, Jesse Strawn. Any message before you slip your cable?" There was a faint whisper of: "Scuppered, lad! Take warnin' and avast this cruel piratin' or you'll get it.
I ought to mention before going further that as a rule Spooner declined my company on shooting trips, as he was convinced that I should get "scuppered" sooner or later if I persisted in going after lions with a "popgun," as he contemptuously termed my .303.
The colonel glanced swiftly at the map position of the battery that the approaching Huns had scuppered, and then said quickly "Whatever happens, we shall have time for something to eat. Tell Manning to bring in lunch."
"'To your tents, O Israel! The Hebrew Schools stop the Mounted Troops. Pij, were you scuppered by Jewboys?" "'Umpires Decide all Four Guns Lost," Bayley went on. "By Jove, there'll have to be an inquiry into this regrettable incident, Vee!" "I'll never try to amuse the kids again," said the baited Verschoyle. "Children and newspapers are low things.... And I was hit on the nose by a wad, too!
'Oh, damned good, but they're shot all to bits. Every division did well. It's a marvel they weren't all scuppered, and it'll be a flaming miracle if they find a line they can stand on. Westwater's got a leg smashed. He was brought down this evening, and you'll find him in the hospital. Fraser's killed and Lefroy's a prisoner at least, that was my last news.
He was back again in form electric and self-controlled. "Have you folk got the hang of this?" he asked. "Do you realize what it means if Feisul goes out and gets scuppered?" We thought we did, even if we didn't. I don't suppose anyone except the few who, like Grim, have made a life-study of the problem of Islam in all its bearings could quite have grasped it.
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