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All were armed to the teeth, and fought with what seemed superhuman valor. The women, fierce as tigresses defending their young, swarmed to the walls, and fought in the foremost rank. They threw pails of boiling water on the besiegers, they hurled firebrands in their faces; they quoited blazing pitch-hoops with, unerring dexterity about their necks.
All were armed to the teeth, and fought with what seemed superhuman valor. The women, fierce as tigresses defending their young, swarmed to the walls, and fought in the foremost rank. They threw pails of boiling water on the besiegers, they hurled firebrands in their faces; they quoited blazing pitch-hoops with, unerring dexterity about their necks.
We have not conceived that 'clean glamour' since men were young forgotten ages past. No, there was no human beauty to-night to make a man forget those tigresses. . . . She was not there. I am one of many who miss her, but I would give " The Doctor broke off, searching their faces before he spoke again: "There is no hope you will know the depth of the calamity; the bitterness of the loss.
The tigresses on two legs will have a bad time of it when we get into Parliament. On the fourth of the month, the superintendent wrote to me. More news of the lost Oscar already! The blue man had disembarked at Genoa; and had been traced to the station of the railway running to Turin. More inquiries had been, thereupon, sent by telegraph to Turin.
'I have kept a regular log of all tigers shot by me. 'The average of tigers and tigresses is eight feet ten and a quarter inches. This is excluding cubs I have taken alive. As to measurements, he goes on to make a few remarks, and as I cannot improve on them I reproduce the original passage: 'Several methods have been recommended for measuring tigers.
There they stood, the deadly tubes pressed to their lips, eyeing him like tigresses who protect their young, while every slender limb quivered, not with terror, but with rage. Amyas paused, half in admiration, half in prudence; for one rash step was death. But rushing through the canes, Ayacanora sprang to the front, and shrieked to them in Indian.
"Did you know him before?" murmured the boundary man. "Certainly." "Is he a married man?" "Widower." "Widower?" repeated Alf, almost in a whisper. "Did you know his wife"" "Personally, no; inductively, yes. She was one of those indefinably dangerous women who sing men to destruction one of those tawny-haired tigresses, with slumbrous dark eyes name, Iolanthe." "What?"
Salaries were no larger than elsewhere, but a handsome percentage was paid on sales; and those tigers and tigresses who were strong and ferocious enough to grab meat from under their weaker comrades' noses did extremely well. The Mantles girls who had gone out were champion tigresses.
'Ah, Madame! you insult me by your distrust, he cried. 'I have no reason to trust you, I said, with a frigidity that I hoped would take from him all inclination for a nearer connection; but he only smote his forehead as if it had been a drum, and complained of my cruelty and obduracy. 'Surely I had been nurtured by tigresses, he said, quoting the last pastoral comedy he had seen.
All were armed to the teeth, and fought with what seemed superhuman valor. The women, fierce as tigresses defending their young, swarmed to the walls, and fought in the foremost rank. They threw pails of boiling water on the besiegers, they hurled firebrands in their faces; they quoited blazing pitch-hoops with, unerring dexterity about their necks.
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