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Then, drawing myself up to my full height and taking a deep breath, I coughed loudly as a signal to my two men, at the same instant clapping one hand over the sentinel's mouth and seizing his musket in the other as I drove my knee into the small of his back and bore him irresistibly to the ground. "Utter no sound if you value your life!"
It was now the latter week of May, and the crows and blackbirds had already discovered the little, green, rolledup leaf of the Indian corn just peeping out of the soil. She was determined, therefore, to contrive as lifelike a scarecrow as ever was seen, and to finish it immediately, from top to toe, so that it should begin its sentinel's duty that very morning.
Then seizing his gun so that it would not clatter on the stones, held him thus helpless while we five climbed up beside him. Feeling under the jacket, I put my right hand firmly on the sentinel's throat, and nearly choking the breath out of him, said: "'Your life depends on your actions now. Will you utter a sound if I let go your throat?
His qualities were pretty well known in the army, where there were parties of all politics, and of plenty of shrewdness and wit; but there existed such a perfect confidence in him, as the first captain of the world, and such a faith and admiration in his prodigious genius and fortune, that the very men whom he notoriously cheated of their pay, the chiefs whom he used and injured for he used all men, great and small, that came near him, as his instruments alike, and took something of theirs, either some quality or some property: the blood of a soldier, it might be, or a jeweled hat or a hundred thousand crowns from the king, or a portion out of a starving sentinel's three farthings; or when he was young, a kiss from a woman, and the gold chain off her neck, taking all he could from woman or man, and having, as I said, this of the god-like in him, that he could see a hero perish or a sparrow fall with the same amount of sympathy for either.
They could see the flare of the camp fire beyond the bushes, and now and then they caught sight of a sentinel's head. They felt amply justified in this attempt, for Alvarez had not only held Paul a prisoner, but was plotting with the Indian chiefs to slay all the white people in Kentucky. "Here are the boats," whispered Henry.
Above, on the crest of the field, where a band of men had begun to scramble at the sentinel's halloo, there sat on a white pony the bright-robed figure of the tall fanatic, Fang the Sword-Pen. "He did it!" Heywood's hands opened and shut rapidly, like things out of control. "Oh, Wutz, how did they Saint Somebody the martyrdom Poussin's picture in the Vatican. I can't stand this, you chaps!"
If two or more persons approach a sentinel's post from different directions at the same time, all such persons are challenged in turn and required to halt and to remain halted until advanced. The senior is first advanced, in accordance with the foregoing rules.
Your trophy, "Home Rule," has an incubus grown; He's got you, my friend, and, my faith, he will hold you. 'Tis PADDY'S Dilemma all over again, Only you're the true PAT. You can't take it or leave it. Your triumph was futile, your struggles are vain; Mine's the Sentinel's eye, and you cannot deceive it. "Supply Army Estimates."
In a few moments the white foam was boiling up before their prow, as Prince Theseus and his companions sailed out of the harbor, with a whistling breeze behind them. Talus, the brazen giant, on his never-ceasing sentinel's march, happened to be approaching that part of the coast; and they saw him, by the glimmering of the moonbeams on his polished surface, while he was yet a great way off.
Through them, with but one challenge, Chad went, down the big hill, past the Armory, and into the town pulling panting Dixie up before a wondering sentinel who guarded the Commandant's sleeping quarters. "The Commandant is asleep." "Wake him up," said Chad, sharply. A staff-officer appeared at the door in answer to the sentinel's knock. "What is your business?" "A message from General Ward."
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