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Updated: July 15, 2025
"It's scarcely a fortnight since you betrayed her," she said, slowly and distinctly, "and you expect me to like you and to believe that you are in earnest." His shame turned quickly to anger. "So you listened!" he exclaimed. "Yes, I listened," she answered, and her words came easily, then, in self-defence for she had thought of it all very often. "I didn't know who you were.
Of our mode of self-defence they are ignorant, as they invariably cut with their krisses; their first attention was, therefore, drawn to the edge of the sword; passing the thumb along it, and finding it blunt, they expressed the greatest contempt for the weapon.
He had somewhat of the character attributed to Frenchmen, in that he was good for first, second, and third attacks, but poor for self-defence his sensibilities overpowering his thoughts. He could not comprehend it, nor could he sit quietly any longer; so, yielding his place to the vice-chairman, he left, and the audience smiled.
Gladstone denied that the Ministry were at war with Egypt, and stated that the measures taken at Alexandria were strictly measures of self-defence. In justifying his resignation Mr.
His arms occasionally swung as if brandishing dumb-bells, his chest now and then spread itself to the uttermost, and his head was often thrown back in an attitude suggesting self-defence. 'So you are about to join us, he exclaimed, with a look of touching interest, much like that of a ladies' doctor speaking delicately of favourable symptoms.
At first, she only fought in self-defence, or in revenge for what she considered aggressions and insults, and finally, for spoil and conquest, and for the habit and love of strife and adventure. She was a tall, handsome woman, with dark, flashing eyes, a clear, ringing voice, and a proud, soldier-like step.
He rushed up before me with the scramble of twenty feet, licked Connie's face all over in spite of her efforts at self-defence, then rushed at Dora and the boys one after the other, and woke them all up.
At first a reformer, then a prophet, he was driven to arms in self-defence against his persecutors, and he was fortunate in being able to profit by a certain jealousy which existed between the rival cities of Mecca and Medina.
See, here is the tale of them' and he pointed to long rows of notches cut in the rhinoceros-horn handle of his axe. 'Be silent, I said, for I saw that he was getting the blood-fever on him; 'be silent; well art thou called the "Slaughterer". We would not hear of thy deeds of blood. Remember, if thou comest with us, we fight not save in self-defence. Listen, we need servants.
They seem to think indeed that tigers in general are actuated with the spirits of departed men, and no consideration will prevail on a countryman to catch or to wound one but in self-defence, or immediately after the act of destroying a friend or relation.
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