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For a minute or so they busied themselves with driving four stout stakes into the ground, and then again they took him up, and made him fast by wrists and ankles, spread-eagle fashion, to the stakes. At first he was free to turn his head, and with a chill of horror he saw he was not the first to be stretched out in that clearing.
On that memorable night of the Cable Celebration, when so many paper lanterns and so many enlightened New Yorkers were sold in the name of De Sauty, when all the streets and all the people were alive with gas, when we fired off rockets and Roman candles and spread-eagle speeches in illustrious exuberance, when the city children lit their little dips, and the City Fathers lit their City Hall, when we hung out our banners, and clanged our bells, and banged our guns, when there was Glory to God in the highest steeple, and Peace on Earth in the lowest cellar, I drifted down the Broadway current of a mighty flood of folk, a morose and miserable sentimentalist.
Add to this, a remnant of my last month's pay in truth, not enough to provide me with that much coveted article, a civilian's suit: in proof of which, my old undress-frock, with its yellow spread-eagle buttons, clung to my shoulders like a second shirt of Nessus.
He is no more spread-eagle in his diplomatic relations; is easy and prompt in all secondary questions relating to secondary interests, and daily emerging from international complications. Hitherto the war policy of the administration, as inspired and directed by Scott, was rather to receive blows, and then to try to ward them off.
Meantime Ernest, unconscious of what was being said, after circling the pond with what is called the forward roll, changing it to the Dutch so denominated because it is the movement employed by the Dutch peasants as they skate over their canals and lagoons on their way to market then began making figures of eight, the spread-eagle, the back roll, not to mention many other figures and evolutions, which perfectly astonished Ellis as he looked at them.
"An attractor, by all means. Two or three of them, in fact, to spread-eagle whatever it is. Never take any chances. It's probably an Osnomian, but you never can tell. It may be one of those other people. We know they were around here a few weeks ago, and they're the only ones I know of that have intra-atomic power besides us and the Osnomians."
Here is a specimen of his spread-eagle eloquence, taken from the sermon we are about to criticise: "The black and deep-toned bell of doom hangs over their heads, and I take the hammer of that bell, and I strike it three times with all my might, and it sounds Woe! Woe! Woe!" Perhaps it does, but Talmage is wrong in his spelling.
Warlock's chair, and her father had taken the laird's, and pulled it right in front of the fire, where a small deal table supported his bottle, his decanter, and his three glasses. "What does the woman mean?" said his lordship. " Oh! I see; a spread-eagle! But is my room not ready yet? Or haven't you one to sit in? I don't relish feasting my nose so much in advance of my other senses."
The salary won't permit me to keep up a spread-eagle style at present" with a light-hearted laugh "but I have a promise of more later on, and it may be the stepping-stone to something better; and, Stanley, I'm bent on going higher, in more ways than one," he concluded, in a confidential tone. "Ned, I am more glad than I can tell you, and my best wishes go with you," heartily returned his friend.
Mark, which was ornamented with a spread-eagle in that very spot. Then, one of the men was said to have a red mark on his face; and you may remember, sir, that Bill Brown had a nat'ral brand of that sort. Jones only mentioned the thing this arternoon, as we was at work together; and I detarmined to let you know all about it, at the first occasion. Depend on it, Mr.
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