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He made the most careful preparations for the expedition, and early in the spring, he commenced his march northward into the Indian country. The savages gathered to repulse him at a spot on the Maumee where, years before, a tornado had cut a wide swath through the forest, rendering it all but impenetrable.
The speeding shape halted, hesitated; it seemed about to return. Crashed down upon us an abrupt crescendo of the distant drumming; peremptory, commanding. The shape darted forward; raced away crushing to straw the trees beneath it in a full quarter-mile-wide swath. Great gray eyes wide, filled with incredulous wonder, stunned disbelief, Norhala for an instant faltered.
He became so excited that he threw down his sword, and rushed among the Rebels with his bare fists, knocking down a swath of them. He yelled to the first Rebel he met: "Py Gott, I've no patience mit you, and knocked him sprawling. He caught hold of the commander of the Rebel Brigade, and snatched him back over the works by main strength.
Thus the evil man does lives after him. The condemnation of life is that a man hath carried friction and stirred up malign elements and sowed fiery discords, so that the gods track him by the swath of destruction he hath cut through life. The praise of life is that a man hath exhaled bounty and stimulus and joy and gladness wherever he journeys.
His father, William Burness, had all he could do to support a family of children, of whom Robert was the eldest. The boy soon became a stalwart toiler and could turn a furrow and reap a swath with the best of his comrades; but his mind meanwhile grasped strongly and passionately all the literature to which it could get access.
So I guess you can quickly understand that I'm going to cut a good deal wider swath here than you two fellows put together." Greg Holmes, who had been following Dodge with a gradually widening grin of amazement, now burst into a hearty laugh. "Well, what's so awfully funny!" demanded Bert. "You you social swell!" exploded Greg hilariously. "Oh wow!"
D'ri exclaimed, with a pause after each word. "It's cut a swath wider 'n this river. Don't b'lieve a mouse could 'a' lived where the timber 's down over there." Our sweepers and the other sections of the raft were nowhere in sight. We left the logs, and walked to Cornwall, and took a sloop down the river. It was an American boat, bound for Quebec with pipe-staves.
Apart from a smarting of the eyes and a recurrent series of heat waves, they made the climb with no great discomfort; until the final turn brought them to an abrupt halt at the spot where the wide swath of red coals and flaming ashes marked the burning of the hillock foot bushes.
The intelligent horses picked their way with noses close to the ground. They were now between the steep high banks of a coulée. The trees gradually thinned out, and a wide swath of the starry sky showed overhead. Colina's heart rose steadily. The Indians could not possibly find the place where they had left the trail until daylight.
He waged war against the Norsemen of the Western Isles, and he made conquest of Bute, Arran, and Gigha, with the Cumbraes and other smaller isles that still remain in the hands of the Scots, for he was a most powerful warrior, and it was said that no man ever crossed swords with him but to be slain. His enemies fell before him like ripe grain in the swath of the mower's sickle. And his sword "
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