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"Yes, we've both known that," said Rose Mary, still suspending her announcement, she scarcely knew why. "He talked like he was a-going to turn the Briars into a kinder orphan asylum for us old folks and spread-eagled around about something he didn't seem to be able to spit out with good sense. But I reckon I was kinder confused by the shock and wasn't right peart myself to take in his language."
He landed upon the thrush nearest to him, spread-eagled and hammering like a feathered devil. There was a whirl of brown feathers and finely powdered snow for about ten seconds, at the end of which time that other thrush detached himself and fled, oven as his conqueror hurled himself upon the next bird.
"If this was only the royal navy," cried the mate, "I'd have you spread-eagled up there and lashed to the rigging till you got used to it. Here, where are you going, youngster?" "Up to see what's the matter," said Mark coolly; and swinging himself up he began to climb the rigging.
You'd better not be late again when I'm officer of the watch, or I'll have you spread-eagled in the mizzen rigging as a warning to others, like they nail up crows against a barn door ashore. That'll make you sharper next time, my joker! Do you hear me, youngster?" "Yes, sir," said I, touching my cap. "I hear you, sir." "Very well, then.
"When I come to, there was Vahna spread-eagled on top of the nugget, and the old fellow with a beak jabbering away solemnly as if going through some sort of religious exercises. In his hand he had a stone knife you know, a thin, sharp sliver of some obsidian- like stuff same as they make arrow-heads out of. I couldn't lift a hand, being held down, and being too weak besides.
In the struggle under water, before he permitted her to wrench clear, her rubber cap was torn off, and her hairpins pulled out, so that she came up gasping for air and half-blinded by her wet-clinging hair. Also, he was certain he had surprised her into taking in a quantity of water. "Keep away!" he warned, as he spread-eagled with acted desperateness.
Then he softly muttered: "Well, I'll be spread-eagled!" "Me, too," seconded Tim, who had been craning his neck. The room was absolutely empty. No bed, no chair, no bureau, no rug nothing at all was in it except two iron hooks. Its floor consisted of split palm logs, round side up, between which opened inch-wide spaces.
For the most part the glass was bedewed, and Graham saw only hazy suggestions of the forms below, but near the pitch of the transparent roof the glass was clear, and he found himself looking sheerly down upon it all. For awhile, in spite of the urgency of his guide, he gave way to vertigo and lay spread-eagled on the glass, sick and paralysed.
He cried out with anguish, apparently lost control of himself, attempted to sit up, and was washed under by the next wave. He came up, spluttered, spread-eagled on the surface, and had his knotted calf gripped by the strong fingers of both Ida's small hands. "It's all right," she said, while she worked. "No cramp like this lasts very long." "I didn't know it could be so savage," he groaned.
A white shape was lying face downwards, spread-eagled on the sand, almost under The Hawk's feet, and at their approach two lean, slinking forms cantered away into the night. The Sheik and Henri reached the still figure simultaneously and Saint Hubert almost as quickly. He made a hurried examination.
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