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"Well, I suppose we must obey orders; but it goes against my conscience to save such villainous-looking rascals. Armourer, hammer away." The armourer, who, with the seamen, appeared very much of Jack's opinion, and had not commenced his work, now struck off the padlocks, one by one, with his sledge-hammer.
He had seen her a score of times in that very dress, flitting like a dark, graceful ghost through the city streets, and the sight sent his heart plunging against his side like an inward sledge-hammer. Would one pulse in her heart stir ever so faintly at sight of him?
"Tom," he exclaimed huskily to me, "Violet Winslow left for New York on the early train this morning!" I felt my heart skip a beat, then pound away like a sledge-hammer at my ribs as the terrible possibilities of the situation were seared into my brain. "Yes, Warrington a letter to her? Read it quick," I heard Garrick's tense voice repeating. "I see.
In some claims a man is constantly employed with a heavy sledge-hammer in breaking up large stones, so that the pieces may be sent down the sluice. One man attends to the sluice, and sees that the dirt does not choke up in the sluice, or in the claim above it.
At any rate, when he applied pressure he did not seem surprised when the glass became straight again. Then he proceeded actually to tie a knot in it, so bendable was the new substance! "This will revolutionize the glass industry!" declared Ned, noting that even the blows of a heavy sledge-hammer failed even so much as to crack the rod.
Christine took out her beautiful handkerchief and wiped the spot. "Christine," I said, "do you remember the fate of the proud girl who walked upon bread?" "You think that I may starve for kisses some time?" said my friend, going on with the wiping. "Not while I am alive," called out Edward from behind. His style of courtship was of the sledge-hammer sort sometimes.
You haven't any blank paper you could lend me, Jimmy?" "I have, but I won't lend it." Yates took out his pencil, and pulled down his cuff. "Now, Mac," he said, "tell me all you saw of this fight." The blacksmith talked, and Yates listened, putting now and then a mark on his cuff. Sandy spoke occasionally, but it was mostly to tell of sledge-hammer feats or to corroborate something the boss said.
The mound was one of the tallest in the region of dust, and as I struggled to the top, panting for breath and with my heart beating like a sledge-hammer, I saw away to my left the dull red gleam of the sky, and nearer still the flashing of lights. Thank God! I knew where I was now and where lay the road to Paris! For two or three seconds I paused and looked back.
At the last moment he took another dab with the wet sponge against his swollen left eye. "Time!" With a suppressed yell Treadwell rushed at his opponent. Dave had to sidestep to his own right, out of range of Treadwell, to save himself. Then at it they went, all around the ring. Darrin had determined to keep himself out of the way of those sledge-hammer fists until he saw his own clear opening.
I delivered a savage and resounding thwack upon the broad oak panel of the door, regardless of the destructiveness that might attend the effort. If any one had told me that I couldn't splinter an oak board with a sledge-hammer at a single blow I should have laughed in his face.
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