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We rushed out immediately to render assistance, but without water or engines of any kind it was difficult to do much. However, Herr von B and myself got on the top of the outhouse that was in flames, and stripped off the wooden tiles, removing out of the way everything that was likely to feed the fire.
The question quivered through the quiet room as if wrung from the twitching lips by sheer torture. It went out in silence a dreadful, lasting silence in which the souls of men, stripped naked of human convention, stood confronting the first primaeval instinct of human chivalry. It continued through many terrible seconds that silence, and through it no one moved, no one seemed to breathe.
We stripped all clothing from our dead. Stark they came into the world, and stark they passed out over the side of the longboat and down into the dark freezing ocean. Lots were cast for the clothes. This was by Captain Nicholl's command, in order to prevent quarrelling. It was no time for the follies of sentiment.
Then he shook himself, stripped to the buff, clambered on the rail, drew himself up and raised his arms to plunge. The dive was never taken. He stood instead transfixed, his eyes on the horizon. "Hand up that glass," he said. In a trice they were all swarming aloft, the nude captain leading with the glass.
As with the former caitiffs, so now Geraint stripped the three of their armour, bound it upon the horses, and bade Enid drive these forward with the other four. Again they rode on their way, and, for all his anger, it smote Geraint to the heart to see the gentle lady labouring to drive forward the seven horses.
I wonder what's upset her sweet, retiring disposition?" His boyish face indicated his deep disgust. "I heard every word you said!" screamed Mignon. Rage had stripped her of the thin veneer of civilization. She was the same young savage who had kicked and screamed her way to whatever she desired when years before she had been the terror of the neighborhood.
But she, now wide-eyed with a kind of sudden terror at this latest outbreak, this seeming madness on his part, which she could nowise fathom or comprehend, retreated ever more and more, away from him. Then suddenly with a quick effort, she stripped off the splendid, blazing diamond from her finger, and held it out to him.
How did you sleep?" asked the inventor, observing that Mark and Jack were awake. "Fine!" they said in a chorus and with a smile. "Well, wash up and we'll have something to eat. You'll find soap, water and towels out in the shed," and he pointed to where he had just come from. The boys found two big tubs full of cool water. In an instant they had stripped and were splashing around like ducks.
Another diversion not less interesting than the elephants is a wrestling tournament at the police-thana, where twenty stalwart policemen, stripped as naked as the proprieties of a country where little clothing is worn anyhow will permit, are struggling for honor in the arena.
When one remembers how China had been worsted by Japan, how all her prestige was swept away, how, from having been the parent of the Oriental family of nations, a desirable friend or a dangerous enemy, she was stripped of all her glory, and left a helpless giant with neither strength nor power, one can easily understand the eagerness of this boy of twenty-seven to restore her to the pedestal from which she had been ruthlessly torn.
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