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He replied with embarrassment: "He couldn't move on account of the pains." And the farmers tossed their heads with a sly, incredulous air. They directed their steps toward the mayor's office.
While he had stanchly kept himself for her, cherishing with a single heart all the old memories of her dearness, she had been a wife these seven years, the wife, moreover, of a mob-leader whose minions had put them out of their home, and then wantonly tossed his father like a dead branch into the waters.
May I, like Christian, turn aside and quench his artillery! To return to my narrative. When I recovered consciousness, after the sinking of the Blackbird, I found myself alone, clinging to the mast. Now was I tossed on the crest of the wave, now the waters opened beneath me, and I sank down in the valleys of the sea.
Besides, had I spoken, the prince might have tossed you overboard; he is quite capable of doing so. That, too, would have been inartistic, would have turned a comedy of love into rank melodrama." Rank nonsense! Of course such a conversation could not be real. But he cried out in the dream: "What matter if his excellency had tossed me overboard? What good am I here?" "To her, you mean?"
Meanwhile, the helmsman and signalmen on the Kasanumi's bridge had seen me tossed over the rail by the force of the explosion, and, although themselves severely shaken, had instantly flung themselves down upon the turtle-back, where they found me lying bleeding and insensible.
Rome lowered his gun to the hollow of his arm, and the two young leaders faced each other for the first time in the life of either. "Seem kinder s'prised to see me," said the Stetson, grimly. "Hev ye got a pistol?" Young Jasper glared at him in helpless ferocity. "Naw!" "Knife?" He drew a long-bladed penknife from his pocket, and tossed it at Rome's feet. "Jes' move over thar, will ye?"
Still it was difficult to loose the hand, and Dorothea, withdrawing it in a confusion that distressed her, looked and moved away. "See how dark the clouds have become, and how the trees are tossed," she said, walking towards the window, yet speaking and moving with only a dim sense of what she was doing.
Upon this the action began, and two of them running up after the Frenchman and boy, one tossed the lad by the arm into the water, and the other driving the man down upon the deck he there had his brains dashed out by Roche and his companions.
Morgan thought it was a very wise regulation for a town where perils were said to be so thick, all in keeping with the notoriety of Ascalon. He made inquiry about something to eat. The girl's face set in disfavoring cast as she tossed her head haughtily. "Dinner's over long ago," she said.
The box had appeared filled with odd small lumber of which a part was a dozen or so grey paper wrappers, such as are used, I believe, for carrying samples of corn; though I have seen them put to other purposes, as, indeed, was now the case. At first George had tossed these aside; but it growing darker the bo'sun lit one of the candles which we had found in the lazarette.
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