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Retracing his steps, he had only time to warn the piquet of their danger, when a volley was fired by the Americans, who had surrounded the log guard-house, at so inconsiderable a distance that the burning wads set fire to the birch covering of the roof, until the guard-house was consumed.
It was his dressing-gown that was saturate with Roddy's blood, just as they were his gloves, pilfered from his luggage, which had measurably protected the killer's hands, and which Lanyard had found in the next room, stripped hastily off and thrown to the floor twin crumpled wads of blood-stained chamois-skin.
"If I had to answer M. Jean Jacques on such a matter and so much at stake " Masson interrupted. "Well, if you like we'll bind your eyes and put wads in your ears, and you can stay, so that you'll have been in the room all the time, and yet have heard and seen nothing at all. How is that, m'sieu'? It's all right, isn't it?" M. Fille stood petrified for a moment at the audacity of the proposition.
"They're housed over near the Riverside Drive with a wild enthusiast who has oodles and wads of money old Simeon Pratt." "I've heard of Simeon Uncle Simeon the reporters call him on 'the Street. I remember now about his spiritualism. He had some remarkable experiences after his wife's death drowned, wasn't she?"
This done, with due deliberation Archer supplied his several pockets with their accustomed load the clean-punched wads in this in that the Westley Richards' caps here a pound horn of powder there a shot-pouch on Syke's lever principle, with double mouth-piece in another, screw-driver, nipple-wrench, and the spare cones; and, to make up the tale, dog-whip, dram-bottle, and silk handkerchief in the sixth and last.
He went by us in a gallop, riding between us and the battery, at the head of his staff. The battery was then hotly engaged; shot and shell were whizzing overhead, and cutting off the limbs of trees, but Grant rode through the storm with perfect indifference, seemingly paying no more attention to the missiles than if they had been paper wads.
Chaucer was a bland verse writer of the third century. Chaucer was succeeded by H. Wads. Longfellow an American Writer. His writings were chiefly prose and nearly one hundred years elapsed. Shakspere translated the Scriptures and it was called St. James because he did it.
As soon as I had removed them, I rolled them up very carefully into pistol cartridges from which I drew the charges. I was just going to throw away the powder, when I thought, "No, I'll put the powder back. It'll make the fraud more difficult to detect." So I put the powder back with great care. Then I searched my mind for something with which to seal up the cartridge wads over the powder.
They had curtains for their windows, too muslin, of course and, although the windows were almost paneless, they presented quite a home-like appearance, especially from the street, eight floors below. Heavy wads of cloth served as glass in most of the vacant places, but they did not serve well as light filterers.
I think," he continued, "I know a trick that will do the business, if we see any more of these dragons." Saying which, he withdrew the cartridges from his gun, and with his hunting-knife cut the tough paper shell nearly through between the wads separating the powder from the shot, drawing his knife entirely around.
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