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It's smashed into small pieces both of you will be," and the eyes of the spectators grew wide as they watched the two running figures, for the rancher also had turned, and the lines of vapor were creeping with ominous swiftness across the face of the stone.
Few had a chance of striking, most of them falling, pierced through and through by the spears. Those who, by swiftness of eye, escaped this fate, sprung at the horses like wildcats, clinging to the saddles, while they strove to bury their knives in the riders' bodies. Their back pieces now served the troopers in good stead, as did their superior personal strength.
He said, slowly, "Yes, it's an awful thing to be a woman, but then it's an awful responsibility to be a man." "What do you mean?" "I mean that we are responsible, as the dominant sex, for every tragic, incomplete woman's life." "Don't you blame Mrs. Shellberg?" she said, forcing him to a concrete example with savage swiftness. "No.
Then seized by a sudden terror of the gulf beyond, he tried to stop, to hold back, to catch at something at anything that would check the swiftness of his descent, that would silence the rushing sound of the river about him.
If he could not delight in the swiftness and agility with which the 'little frigate' walked the waves, or amuse himself by noticing the beauty of the sea-views around him, where the distant Skiddaw raised his brow, as if in defiance of the clouded eminence of Criffel, which lorded it over the Scottish side of the estuary, he had spirits and composure enough to pay particular attention to the master of the vessel, on whose character his own safety in all probability was dependent.
With marvellous swiftness she plunged her hand into her dress pocket, and turned it wrong side out, scattering the contents thimble, thread, two "scalybarks," and some "ground peas" over the floor. Then stooping, she slipped off one shoe, turned it upside down, and hung it thus on a horseshoe fastened to the mantel board.
Don't be coerced, don't be led into the morass." She looked at him and laughed gaily. Her mood had changed once more with chameleon-like swiftness. "It is all very well for you," she declared. "You are six foot four, and you look as though you could hew your way through life with a cudgel.
He must surely see that the fact of two things being different implies that they are similar. The hare and the tortoise may differ in the quality of swiftness, but they must agree in the quality of motion. The swiftest hare cannot be swifter than an isosceles triangle or the idea of pinkness. When we say the hare moves faster, we say that the tortoise moves.
But in spite of the swiftness with which they flew through the air, the time passed even quicker for Saphir and Serpentine, who had so much to think about. They were still quite confused with the pleasure of seeing each other, when the chariot arrived at King Peridor's palace. He had had himself carried to a room on the roof, where his nurses thought that he would die at any moment.
Lagardere was filled with the longing to clasp her in his arms, but he restrained himself, again kissed her hand with the same air of tender devotion, and motioned to her to enter her room. When she had closed the door he returned to his own room, and there, with amazing swiftness, divested himself of his outer garments and substituted for them those of the dead Æsop.
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