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A characteristic anecdote of this period is preserved in "Arrows of the Chace." "The Daily Telegraph of January 21st, 1868, contained a leading article upon the following facts. It appeared that a girl, named Matilda Griggs, had been nearly murdered by her seducer, who, after stabbing her in no less than thirteen places, had then left her for dead.
Quick as thought, the swordless man by his side hit up the bravo's rapier with his left arm, and the blade, stabbing the air, struck and bent against the stones of the wall just over shoulder-height. "Sus! sus!" cried the leader of the night-hawks; and he ran forward. Clearly it was time that help came.
Is there ever stabbing where there is not idleness and strong drink?" The Bishop also gives the following as another exciting cause; it is however only the product of the preceding.
"I will," said he to himself, "make the father and son both drunk: the son, whose life I intend to spare, will not be able to prevent my stabbing his father to the heart; and while the slaves are at supper, or asleep in the kitchen, I can make my escape over the gardens as before."
"Naval supremacy and the command of the seas," said she, like a child repeating a lesson. "That's it," he shouted, stabbing at me with the amber. "Naval supremacy and command of the seas. It's all here right under your nose.
As soon as these people, used to drink water and to eat a little boiled rice, have tasted meat, or drunk only one cup of wine, there is no holding them: there are fights, stabbing matches, a general brawl in the hovels.
There was silence awhile, and then Tanéo, the foster brother of Narü, clothed in his armour of cinnet fibre, and grasping a short stabbing spear in his hand, stepped out of the ranks. 'Get thee back again to Tahiti, O men of Paré, he said quietly, striking his spear into the sand. 'This marriage is not to our minds.
He was a second time indicted upon the coroner's inquest for the said offence, and also a third time upon the Statute of Stabbing. However the evidence not being clear enough to satisfy the jury, on his trial he was acquitted by them all.
No trace of the tilted faun-like smile. She would never get away from that terrible room. There too, as in the salon, abode the inextinguishable odour shaken from Madame's dress, it mixed with the hot reek of carbolic and the bitter stabbing odour of the coffin.
The predatory Wasps killed their prey at first by stabbing it at random, here and there, in the softest parts. By degrees they found the spot where the sting was most effectual; and the habit once formed became a true instinct. Transitions from one method of operation to the other, intermediary changes, sufficed to bolster up these sweeping assertions.
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