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Updated: June 23, 2025
In the end they half climbed, half swam upward, detouring swiftly once to avoid the darting attack of a rock hornet, harmless as soon as they moved out of the reach of its questing stinger, for it was anchored for its short life to the rough hollow in which it had been hatched.
One gun wasn't plenty to do the fighting he was hankering for; he had about as much use for two guns as a toad has for a stinger. "The boys got the saddles off the dead horses, and went flying back to our men afoot, and then rejoined us.
Steadying her hand with a mahl stick rested against the wall, with one short sharp stroke she drew a needle-pointed stinger, so screened by the delicate wings that it could not be seen unless you scrutinized the picture minutely. After that, with careful, interested hands she brought out Peter Morrison's drawings and replaced them on the wall to dry.
He stroked a tuft of whisker under his chin. "I don't mind the heat, but the soup's bad," he remarked. "Here's the boy," said Trask. "Now what's it to be?" "Eh! Oh, Ah Wing! That boy knows me. A tot of gin with a stinger, and thank you kindly.
Ichabod retired, elate. 'Her tongue's a stinger; but, Lord bless thee, Ichabod, her bark's a long sight worse than her bite. An' her beer's main good. Mrs. Jenny, meanwhile, retired to the sitting-room, and there sat immersed in gloom. Things looked black for her young protégés, and fate was against them.
He did not like that Fourth of July sound, so, springing to a bank, he went bumping and heaving down to the meadow and had just stampeded the horses when, for the first time, Gringo exposed himself to the hunter's aim. His flank was grazed by another leaden stinger, and Gringo, wheeling, went off into the woods. The hunters were badly defeated.
Somebody's put some stuff up there. Who d'ye reckon?" But Matt was already stealing away. "Let him go," directed Chick-chick. "Bees are all buzzing 'stung' they are. But no stinger in me." After that, no one cared further what the tree held. They rushed back to camp, for the dinner hour was upon them and their appetites were brisk from their swim.
The third plea was the stinger, but too long to cite verbatim; it went to this tune, that the plaintiff at and before the time &c. had conducted himself like a person of unsound mind &c. and two certificates that he was insane had been given by two persons duly authorised under the statute to sign such certificates, and the defendant had believed and did bona fide believe these certificates to be true, &c. &c.
"That's the one," corroborated Guff. "Why, do you know him?" "He is a professional stinger," Johnny admitted. "He stung me, and Collaton helped." "I've no doubt of it," responded Guff. "It was a put-up job in the first place. By the way, Gamble, you used to be in partnership with Collaton yourself." "That's true enough," admitted Johnny. "Possibly I'd better give you some references."
Fighting is unkind and liable to be injurious to others; so, being a gentleman, I never fight." "Nor I!" shouted each of the other officers. "You see," said Ann, "how helpless I am. Had not Private Files proved himself a traitor and a deserter, I would gladly have conquered this Ruggedo; but an Army without a private soldier is like a bee without a stinger."
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