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Updated: May 26, 2025

Seizing the breathing time the clumsy reloading of the gun attacking us gave, we pulled spare rafters and bricks around us in the shape of a blockhouse, and thus apparently buried in the ruins of the house, we-were soon in reality quite comfortably and securely ensconced.

- Indiscreet Letters From Peking : Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation

More than once they had to turn around to catch their breath and clear their eyes. "I wish we we-were to th-the timber!" gasped Giant. "I feel as if the wind was going to pick me up and carry me away!" "Let us keep close together," said Whopper. "There is no telling what will happen with such a wind tearing down upon us."

Edward Stratemeyer - Guns and Snowshoes: Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters