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Carmena gravely drew a sheath knife from the pocket of her skirt. "He knows I usually carry my revolver," she said. Lennon stared. "Your revolver wasn't in your pocket? Yet you sheathed your rifle!" "Didn't you notice his men had their guns pointed at us across their laps? Sheathing mine was what gave me the chance to bluff him. It's all right now. He won't try any more tricks this time."
Both friends and enemies were confounded one side that he could do such a thing, the other that he would do it under the circumstances. "Surely he will not allow them to bind him!" Thus thought Ben-Hur. "Put up thy sword into the sheath; the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?" From the offending follower, the Nazarene turned to his captors.
'I've tugged like this every night for months, said Jinny, 'but the moment I let go he flies back like elastic. 'Of course. We must first untie the knots and weave the patterns into one. Let go! Daddy's night-body flashed back like a sword into its sheath. They stood and watched him.
To the last he continued to conceal vipers beneath his flowers; or rather, speaking proportionately to the case, he continued to sheath amongst the gleaming but innocuous lightnings of his departing splendors, the thunderbolts which blasted for ever. His last appearance was his greatest.
Then Menelaus drew his sword from the silver-studded sheath, and smote on the helmet of Paris, but the sword was shattered, and fell in pieces from his hand. Then he looked up to heaven, and exclaimed, "O Father Zeus! thou art the most cruel of all the Gods!"
Herbert suited the action to the word and threw himself on Amy's belly. She herself guided his instrument into her coral sheath, and they both commenced the work of thrust and heave. "Delicious, splendid!" exclaimed Amy. "I can feel your lovely instrument in my vagina. Go on! go on!" "He moves his bottom as I do mine and soon discharges as I do now.
Seeing me watching, he grinned mysteriously and made a sign with head and shoulders thrust forward in imitation of a person riding away at full speed, after which he restored his knife to its sheath. "You intend cutting your surcingle and running away, little coward?" I said. "And what are you going to do?" he returned. "Fight," I said.
Only the cross-shaped sheath hung there above the altar. "In a sudden, frightened flash of imagination, I pictured the thing adrift in the Chapel, moving here and there, as though of its own volition; for whatever Force wielded it, was certainly beyond visibility. I turned my head stiffly over to the left, glancing frightenedly behind me, and flashing the light to help my eyes.
When danger approached its master's tent it always struck the shield and clanged out a fierce alarm upon the startled ear of night. In times of doubt, or in fog or darkness, if it were drawn from its sheath it would point instantly toward the foe, and thus reveal the way and it would also attempt to start after them of its own accord.
Lord Westmere stroked his long white mustache with his bloodless hand and looked at Alexander blankly. Hilda was a good story-teller. She was sitting on the edge of her chair, as if she had alighted there for a moment only. Her primrose satin gown seemed like a soft sheath for her slender, supple figure, and its delicate color suited her white Irish skin and brown hair.
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