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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Take them back? How can I do that? 'As uncaged bird is spoken word!" Too perplexed to reply, Tanaroff looked Sanine full in the face. "What evil eyes he has!" thought the latter. "This is no joking matter," began Tanaroff, looking flushed and angry. "Are you prepared to retract your words, or are you not?" Sanine at first was silent.
How the shadows leap, and skulk, and hover about! Light and darkness are in perpetual tilt and warfare, with first the one unhorsed, then the other. The friendly and cheering fire, what acquaintance we make with it! We had almost forgotten there was such an element, we had so long known only its dark offspring, heat. Now we see the wild beauty uncaged and note its manner and temper.
And when her friend, the great bell, Bayard, spoke through the resounding sky of France to a million men-at-arms in blue and steel, who were steadily forging hell’s manacles for the uncaged Hun, the loyal western wind carried far beyond the trenches an ominous iron vibration that meant doom for the Beast. And the Beast heard, leering skyward out of pale pig-eyes, but did not comprehend.
When the guests arrived, weary of town life, they were turned loose in the enchanting place like birds uncaged, and to the beauty of Nature was added that of folk as gaily dressed as the flowers. The king was invited to inspect it all for his pleasure, asked to feast in the gardens, and to repose in the splendid château.
And he hammered the table with his clenched fist. Anna closed her eyes; it had come at last; she had always known that it was only a question of time. The rest looked at the Squire dumbfounded. Ah, that is, but Marthy. She was licking her lips in delightful anticipation with much the same expression as a cat would regard an uncaged canary.
A proud trio were Spalding, Smith, and the Doctor that afternoon, returning with their game across the lake; and they certainly had some occasion to congratulate themselves, for this was the first wild, uncaged bear either of us had ever seen, and him they had succeeded in capturing. We dined that afternoon on a roasted sirloin of bear, stewed jerked venison, fried trout, and pork.
'And one part, too, 'was the hem of the frock! Another piece was 'part of the skirt, not the hem, that is to say, was torn completely out through the agency of thorns, from the uncaged interior of the dress!
But as the day wore on, and no diminution of the firing, at the point where A.P. Hill and his adversary had so long kept up, Jackson and D.H. Hill undertook to relieve him. Longstreet, too, near nightfall, who had been held in reserve all day, now broke from his place of inaction and rushed into the fray like an uncaged lion, and placed himself between A.P. Hill and the river.
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