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Updated: May 19, 2025
Marshal Schomberg, thwarted by bad weather, had just rallied his troops which had been cast by the winds on different parts of the coast, when it was perceived that the enemy had sheered off.
The scouts swept forward in a tiny, whirling cloud. They sheered away from something invisible. One of them dropped a smoking object. It emitted a vast cloud of paper, which the wind caught and swept away, and suddenly wrapped about a definite section of an arc. More and more of the tiny smoke-bombs released their masses of cloudlike stuff.
I kept the canoe headed in, and we were not long coming to shallow water. Here the bonefish made a final dash for freedom, but it was short and feeble, compared with his first runs. He got about twenty feet away, then sheered, showing his broad, silver side. R. C. wound him in close, and an instant later the bow of the canoe grated on shore.
'Yes, yes, my lady lass, said the Captain, hastily deciding in his own mind upon the superior elegance of that form of address, as the most courtly he could think of. 'Is Walter's Uncle here? asked Florence. 'Here, pretty? returned the Captain. 'He ain't been here this many a long day. He ain't been heerd on, since he sheered off arter poor Wal'r.
'We've woke him up, Masther Arthur, if it's asleep he was at all, the rogue; an' now he's sthrugglin' out of the hole wid all his might. Keep in there, you big villyan, you don't dare to offer to come out; for Andy set his shoulder against the great carcase, which nevertheless sheered round till muzzle and paws could be brought into action, and their use illustrated on Andy's person.
Her sails fluttered as she came up to the wind, and the crew were seen hurrying to and fro in much alarm. Mr Stevenson himself stood on the quarterdeck of the little vessel, and waved his hand to assure those on the beacon that they had sheered off in time, and were safe.
They are good fellows all." "Amen!" said "Hay." After a time, the press boat sheered off, and we continued on our course. Later in the morning another steamer was sighted. The "Yankee" was sent after her at full speed. The chase crowded on all steam, but she was soon overhauled, and found to be a Norwegian trader. After a satisfactory explanation she was permitted to go.
After a moment he rose to his feet, still looking intently skyward. The eagle was sailing very low now. The words shot out of McKay's lips. The girl sat upright, electrified. And now the sun struck full across the great bird as he sheered the tree-tops above. "Could could it be that dead man's eagle?" said the girl. "Oh, could it be Manitou? COULD it, Kay?"
If we had been content to mind our own business, had sheered away like the deputy it turned me faint to think how long we had delayed with old Marceau, we were so nearly too late. I wanted to seize Monsieur, to convince myself that he was all safe, to feel him quick and warm. I made one pace and stopped; for I remembered what ghastly shape stood between me and Monsieur that horrible lying story.
Three or four times he met parties of Mexicans, and he replied briefly to their questions that he rode on the business of the most illustrious president, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. Once, on the second day, he saw two horsemen, whom his trained eyes told him to be Texan hunters. The messenger sheered off into a patch of timber, and waited until the hunters passed out of sight.
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