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I mind that I heard the leathern peace thongs of one snap as the thane who tried to draw it tugged at the hilt, forgetting them. Soon I was in the midst of a half ring of men as I held the man close to the great fire on the hearth with his face downward and his right arm doubled under him. He never stirred, and I thought he waited for me to loose my hold on him.
Tradition had bound Reuben in thongs of steel; Abel was conscious only of his liberated intelligence of a passionate desire to test to the fullest the certainty of that liberation.
But keep your own counsel, and there are none here to betray us. Yet how came those dogs at large? I left them securely fastened, I know, for I felt the thongs and examined the knots when I was at the hunt. It has been too much for the poor things, said Natty, to have such a buck take the wind of them. See, lad, the pieces of the buckskin are hanging from their necks yet.
I listened until the patience of my comrades was well-nigh exhausted, but still there was no voice from without; and with a strange feeling of uneasiness and wonderment I commenced cutting the thongs from my ankles. Having set Raoul at liberty, I handed him the knife, and proceeded to open the note.
Fair is she and young, in very truth meet to wed with him who rules us with a hand of iron, bound in thongs of softest velvet. "Beautiful, yes! beautiful as the day at dawn, and straight as yon marble pillar, and as delicately tinted, rounded as the bursting lotus bud, and fit to carry the honour of bearing her master's children! In a few moons it !" "Begone!"
One of these was the slatted cuirass or corslet, which was formed of a series of narrow slats of wood set side by side vertically and fastened in place by interfacings of raw hide. It went all round the body, being hung from the shoulders with straps. The other was a kind of shirt of double or treble elk hide, fastened at the side with thongs.
From Nathaniel's throat there came a fierce cry and in a single leap he had cleared the distance to the guard and had driven his fist against the officer's head with the sickening force of a sledge-hammer. The man fell without a groan. In another flash he had drawn his knife and severed the thongs that held the man at the stake.
The hunters described the sensation of handling their guns as similar to that of touching red-hot iron; and so excessive was the pain, that they were obliged to wrap thongs of leather round the triggers to prevent their fingers coming in contact with the steel.
But, as the Lord said, "It was their hour and the power of darkness." The darkest hour before the dawn! When Annas had completed his preliminary inquiry he gave orders that He should again be bound with the thongs of which He had been relieved, and led to that part of the palace specially used by Caiaphas, who was High Priest, but a mere puppet in the hands of the wily Annas.
Smoke stood up, rubbing his wrists where the thongs had impeded the circulation. "I've got a pack all ready for you," Breck said. "Ten days' grub, blankets, matches, tobacco, an axe, and a rifle." "Go to it," Lucy encouraged. "Hit the high places, Stranger. Beat it as fast as God'll let you." "I'm going to have a square meal before I start," Smoke said.
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