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But I feel sure I've got a strangle-hold on this mystery. If I get those papers from Riley in good time to-morrow I shall invite you and several others to a grand demonstration here to-morrow night. Don't forget. Keep the whole evening free. It will be a big story." Kennedy's laboratory was brightly lighted when I arrived early the next evening. One by one his "guests" dropped in.
What a fight Gregory must have had to have freed himself from that strangle-hold and save the life of the other man as well as his own. How skilfully he had worked over Howard. He seemed to know just what to do. She raised her head sharply. Not given to living in the past, she wondered why her mind had gone wool-gathering.
It is easily explained: London has the greatest feather market in the world; the feather industry "wants the money"; and the London feather industry is willing to spend money in fighting to retain its strangle-hold on the unprotected birds of the world. Let us run through a small portion of the mass of fresh evidence before us.
The use of automatic and pump guns in hunting should be barred, through state pride, if for no other reason. NEW JERSEY: New Jersey enjoys the distinction of being the second state to break the strangle-hold of the gun-makers of Hartford and Ilion, and cast out the odious automatic and pump guns.
"He has to put one up, but it's pretty liable to be 'straw. Fellows like him generally have a strangle-hold on a little place like this and they are pretty sure of their ground before they shoot. The chances are Rock's in the clear with a 'dummy' or else his property is all under cover. I'm going to make it my business to look the old fellow up and see how he's fixed.
By '64 the North had secured this strangle-hold; and nothing but foreign intervention or the political death of the Northern War Party could possibly shake it off. The South was feeling its practical enislement as never before.
It is the price we have to pay. The victory of our soul shall be all the greater if our body is shattered and tortured." Henceforth, the voice of Belgium reaches us only from time to time. Its sound is muffled by the enemy's strangle-hold, which grows tighter and tighter. Before the fall of Antwerp, the German administration of General von der Goltz had merely a temporary character.
Instantly the cause of the disturbance flashed upon him. His strangle-hold on Anisty relaxed, he released the man, and, brows knitted with the concentration of his thoughts, he stepped back and over to the girl, lifting her hand and gently taking the revolver from her fingers. Below, O'Hagan was parleying through the closed door with the late callers.
They seemed to be of steel wire, and with a sudden frightful sense of impotence, I realized that I was as powerless as a child to relax that strangle-hold. Burke was making the most frightful sounds and quite obviously was being asphyxiated before my eyes! "Smith!" I cried, "Smith! Help! help! for God's sake!" Despite the confusion of my mind I became aware of sounds outside and below me.
Before the fallen man could gather his shaken wits, he was pinned with the most disabling grip known in the science of combat, a strangle-hold with the assailant's wrist clamped in below and behind the ear. Average Jones lifted his voice and the name that came to his lips was the name that had lurked subconsciously, in his heart, for days. "Sylvia!" he cried. "The fourth floor! Come!"
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