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Updated: June 6, 2025
Wheel-spokes whirred in the air and he saw a buggy, with the top down, rattling down another street in a cloud of dust. It was the same buggy in which he had first seen the black-bearded Senator seven years before. It was the same horse, too, and the Arab-like face and the bushy black whiskers, save for streaks of gray, were the same.
I think he hit one of the wheel-spokes." "Lord!" groaned Littlefield. "If I only had a charge of buckshot!" The ruffian got his horse still, and took careful aim. Fly gave a snort and fell in the harness, struck in the neck. Bess, now disabused of the idea that plover were being fired at, broke her traces and galloped wildly away.
Indeed, O king, my car, horses, and charioteer, were covered all over with those arrows! And the yoke, shaft, wheels, and the wheel-spokes of my car, overwhelmed with that arrowy shower, at once broke. After that arrowy shower, however, was over, I also covered my preceptor with a thick shower of arrows.
"Monsieur," said the Voice, "I thank you with all my heart for your gallant service. Poor, poor dog!" "It was nothing, your Highness; any man would have done the same thing." The red in the wheel-spokes bothered his eyes. "No, no! you must not belittle it." "If it had not been for Lieutenant von Mitter " "Whither were you going, Monsieur?" interrupted the Voice.
It was a beautiful specimen of the vehicle- maker's art, its pole tipped with a bronze lion's head exquisitely chased, the pole itself of ash, the axle and wheel-spokes of cornel-wood, all the woodwork gilded, the hubs and tires of wrought bronze, also gilded, the front of the chariot-body of hammered bronze, embossed with figures depicting two of the Labors of Hercules; every part profusely decorated and the whole effect very tasteful.
She brought it round with such a swing that one of the bones of the sounder leg snapped. He fell, choking with curses. The lady laughed. "Now you will have to wear splints always!" she said; "such dry bones never mend!" "You devil!" he cried. "At your service, my lord! Shall I fetch you a couple of wheel-spokes? Neat but heavy, I fear!"
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