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A hundred times our enemies might have destroyed us; but they prefer to leave us alone. It is more humiliating." Marc'antonio rode forward deep in thought, his chin sunk upon his breast. At the summit, under the shadow of the great rock, he reined up, and slewing himself about in his saddle addressed Stephanu again.
The men, seeing the way thus indicated, did not hesitate to follow. Of course they all held tenaciously by the brass rail, being afraid to slip on the steep stair, and some of them, slewing round almost naturally, went down in true sailor fashion, backwards. Reaching the bottom, the girls, probably by chance, turned to the left and entered the after-cabin.
"Nothin' to larf about," grunted out our crusty coxswain, bracing his body against the loom of the oar with which he was steering and slewing the boat's head aside to avoid a cross sea that nearly broke at that very moment over our bows.
The lioness gathered herself together, and I gave myself up for lost, when suddenly Tom shouted out from somewhere in my rear: "'You are walking on to the wounded cub; turn to the right. "I had the sense, dazed as I was, to take the hint, and slewing round at right angles, but still keeping my eyes on the lioness, I continued my backward walk.
The jolly-boat, too, occasioned us much uneasiness; for when the tow- rope slackened at these moments of peril, she ran the chance of slewing round broadside on to the sea. However, thanks to the interposing aid of Providence, we got through the dangers of the night, and day dawned at last.
Slewing myself partly round in my seat, I observed the little fellow standing bent forward, his hands stretched out before him as if shielding his face from a bush, while his whole body worked to and fro like the subjects in certain mesmeric experiments that I nave observed when first they are brought under 'the influence' of the operator.
In the meantime she points this way and that, slewing now to this side see and now to the other but never getting away from this ship which has her in tow. Our course must be her course." "Yes, I suppose that is so." "Well, then, Cogan that I've been telling you about was nearly always in tow of a force that seemed to be outside of himself.
"Oh, you've come on board, youngster, eh?" he repeated questioningly, slewing round in his tracks and bringing his piercing black eyes to bear on my small person; when he looked me through and through, "taking my measure" at a glance. "Ah, I see, you're one of our new cadets from the Illustrious come to report yourself, eh?"
Now, I didn't like that at all, and I turned round to tell them to go in front of me; I was just in time to save myself from getting a spear through my back as it was, it whizzed through the side of my coat, and in another second the nigger who threw it had a charge of shot through his brains. Then, slewing round, I was just able to drop the guide, who was running off with the rifle.
With a flourish, Constable Miles Sloan, the Regimental Teamster, swung the leaders of his splendid four-in-hand and pulled up at the front entrance of the Holy Cross Hospital. Slewing around on his high box-seat he addressed himself to the drag's occupants, Slavin and Yorke. "I don't know whether they will let you see him, or not," he remarked doubtfully, "he's a pretty sick man."
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