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But by this time the nerves of both were shaken; even Morris had enough of his grisly task; and they skulked off like animals into the thickest of the neighbouring covert. 'It's the best that we can do, said Morris, sitting down. 'And now, said John, 'perhaps you'll have the politeness to tell me what it's all about.
But this resolution, uttered with so serious an air, of accompanying me in to my friends, made me gasp with terror. What mean you, Mr. Lovelace? said I: I beseech you leave me leave me, Sir, I beseech you. Excuse me, Madam! I beg you to excuse me. I have long enough skulked like a thief about these lonely walls long, too long, have I borne the insults of your brother, and other of your relations.
"But I don't want Josephine. I want her." "But which do you want to marry? to bring forward as your wife? to spend your life with?" "I know. I'm a mad fool. But, Urse, I can't help it." He stood up suddenly. "I've used every weapon I've got. Even pride and it skulked away. My sense of humor and it weakened. My will and it snapped." "Is she so wonderful?" "She is so elusive.
They fraternized as all brave men do after the battle. A few Cubans skulked around the rear of our line, despised by both sides. The next day witnessed the formal surrender of the city.
Sometimes they took refuge in a cave on a mountain near New Haven, sometimes they hid in friendly cellars; and once, being hard put to it, they skulked under a wooden bridge, while their pursuers on horseback galloped by overhead.
The huge desolation of the marshes stretched away to the horizon and the border of the desert. Bitterns stood by the stagnant pools and jackals skulked through the low bushes; but there was no sign of the caravan of the wise men, far or near. At the edge of the terrace he saw a little cairn of broken bricks, and under them a piece of parchment.
The moon was not high enough yet to dispel much of the gloom of the twilight, and bullbats were circling overhead, dipping so low at times that once they almost brushed her face. "Oh, I'm lost!" she whispered, with trembling lips. All of a sudden there was a rustling of the high corn, and out of it limped a big burly negro. He had a gun on his shoulder, and a savage-eyed dog skulked at his heels.
In two days every loop-hole of escape for the Confederates is closed, gunboats above and below them, batteries peering down from every bluff, and regiments of infantry, all prepared to move upon the works. They made one or two ineffectual but plucky attempts to ward off capture. One private soldier swam ashore, skulked past the Union pickets, and made his way to one of the Union mortar-boats.
One moonlight night, at home, I went out to where the dogs, twelve in number, were sleeping: while I stood there a skunk appeared and deliberately came towards me, passing through the dogs where they lay, and one by one as he passed them they rose up, and, with their tails between their legs, skulked off.
On the contrary, this ineffectual fire served only to raise the spirits of these last, who, having prepared their artillery during the time that the French halted, began to play it so briskly upon the enemy, that the Canadians and Indians in their service fled immediately into the woods on each side of the camp, and there squatted under bushes, or skulked behind trees, from whence they continued firing with very little execution, most of their shot being intercepted by the brakes and thickets; for they never had the courage to advance to the verge of the wood.
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