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Sometimes the Circassians dash through between the forts without stopping to attack them, and suffering, perhaps, somewhat from the cross-fire, gain the country beyond the line, where they find more abundant spoils and no resistance.
"It is a true saying, and we must therefore bait our horses and give them a short breathing time, or they may break down before we reach our journey's end." "Might we not push on without stopping, and trust to the animals to keep up their strength to the last?" asked Berthold. "They are both good nags and sound in wind, and can manage a pretty broad ditch when pressed at it."
"Done for?" murmured the other, looking about stupidly. "Done for, that's the word. Done for? Yes, I guess we're done for." "What are we going to do NOW?" exclaimed Marcus, sharply, after a while. "Well, let's let's be moving along somewhere." "WHERE, I'd like to know? What's the good of moving on?" "What's the good of stopping here?" There was a silence.
"You are shrewd," Victor observed, thoughtfully. "Be careful: it is a dangerous gift." The man Nogam gently opened the door and approached the table, stopping just outside the area of illumination shed by the shaded lamp.
He shot himself by accident." Spiki dead? Mash-Allah! Ough, he was a good man a good man! Dead!" "But where is this Kazeh, Sheikh Sayd?" Kazeh? Kazeh? I never heard the name before." "But you were with Burton, and Speke, at Kazeh; you lived there several months, when you were all stopping in Unyanyembe; it must be close here; somewhere.
For twelve years he had taken no part in the existence of the cities he had passed, as often as possible without stopping, and of the villages gathered invitingly under their canopies of trees. He was yes, he must be forty-six. Life was passing away; well, let it ... worthless. The growing radiance of the moon glimmered across the water and folded the land in a gossamer veil.
In spite of wise saws, one is often tempted to believe that occasionally fine feathers make fine birds. We rode on steadily, stopping for an hour or two during the hottest part of the day, and putting up late at night at a dilapidated inn in a half-deserted village.
We camp to-night at the foot of the left fall, on a little patch of flood plain covered with a dense growth of box-elders, stopping early in order to spread the clothing and rations to dry. Everything is wet and spoiling. June 14. Howland and I climb the wall on the west side of the canyon to an altitude of 2,000 feet.
The waiters essayed to sing, but to lead such an army of people was a difficult task, especially when there was no one to lead. Such singing! "We came out ahead, anyhow!" said Flossy, stopping to laugh. Five or six thousand people had finished their verse, while five or six thousand in the rear were in the third line of it. "We need Mr. Bliss or Mr. Sherwin or somebody," said Ruth.
I entered his office and handed him my papers, telling him I hoped to receive the favor of an order for transportation to Cairo, with the privilege of stopping at Island No. 10 and Columbus. He neither asked me a question nor opened my papers, but threw them to his clerk, with directions to give the order. Then he sent it to the quartermaster to fill.
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