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Rude, truculent, and dishonest as Captain Morgan was, he seems to have had a wonderful power of persuading the wild buccaneers under him to submit everything to his judgment, and to rely entirely upon his word. In spite of the vast sum of money that he had very evidently made away with, recruits poured in upon him, until his band was larger and better equipped than ever.
The Tadpoles to a man believed in it, and gave it as their candid opinion that the fellow ought to be hung. "Yes, and expelled too!" added a few of the more truculent.
Her quiet eyes met his; little and fierce and truculent, but behind their rather bloodshot boldness there lurked something else, and with a sudden pang of pity she knew that it was fear, and that Sir Langham dreaded the night. "As a rule I do," she said gently; "but of course I've known what it is to be sleepless, and it's horrid."
Before the Vakeel quitted Simla he had to listen to a truculent address from Lord Lytton, in the course of which Shere Ali's position was genially likened to that of 'an earthen pipkin between two iron pots. Before Sir Lewis Pelly and the Ameer's representative met at Peshawur in January 1877, Shere Ali had not unnaturally been perturbed by the permanent occupation of Quetta, on the southern verge of his dominions, as indicating, along with other military dispositions, an intended invasion.
Meanwhile the inhabitants for it was Sunday instead of going to service were driven towards the breach by the serjeant-major, a truculent Spaniard, next in command to Van den Berg, who ran about the place with a great stick, summoning the Dutch burghers to assist the Spanish garrison on the wall.
If she had looked at him with her usual straightness, she might have remembered the boy of whom she had been fond a small, queer boy, who did not like having his face washed, and who came to her truculent and swaggering, with smears under his red eyes. Even then it is doubtful whether she could have changed the course on which both of them were set. He did not want her to see.
His tone was truculent. Derry attempted lightness. "You'll be a lump of ice in the morning, Dad. We'd have to chip you off in chunks." "You go home with Bronson, son, He is up there. Go home " He had once commanded a brigade. There were moments when he was hard pushed that he remembered it. "Go home, Derry." "Not till you come with me." "I'm not coming." Derry spread his rug on the icy ground.
The remark had amused and stimulated him, but he had never troubled to go in search of examples of the inspiring influence of African taste on London domesticity. He now saw perhaps the supreme instance lodged in Lechford House, like a new and truculent state within a great Empire.
To this contemptuous and false reliance God answers, not as we might expect, first of all, by a repetition of the threatenings, but by a majestic disclosure of the sure refuge which He has provided, set in contrast to the flimsy and false ones, on which these men built their truculent confidence; 'I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone. And then, after the exhibition of the great mercy which has been evoked by the very blasphemy of the rulers, and not till then, does He reiterate the threatenings of judgment, against which this foundation is laid, that men may escape; God first declares the refuge, and then warns of the tempest.
On the other hand, the Pachatupecs were truculent, gluttonous, and not very temperate; they practised polygamy, and all the hard work devolved on the women, whose husbands often brutally ill-used them.
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