United States or Jersey ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
However it fell, they did not approach within hearing if they followed, and were not in sight as dawn broke and broadened into day. Whetstone made the fence without slackening his speed. There Lambert checked him with a word and looked back for his enemies.
Shaving in these surroundings, without a mirror, with a battered old razor that had lain long in the cabin and had to be sharpened on a whetstone, where every drop of hot water used had to be laboriously heated on the stove, was an annoying chore at best: besides, there was no one to see him except Virginia and the guide. The stubble matted and grew on his lips and jowls.
The latter will be the malleable soft iron, low-calked "Goodenough," which can be fitted cold. Purchase a dozen front shoes and a dozen and a half hind shoes. The latter wear out faster on the trail. A box or so of hob-nails for your own boots, a waxed end and awl, a whetstone, a file, and a piece of buckskin for strings and patches complete the list.
Saddle and bridle goes with Whetstone, all a free gift, if you can ride him, Duke. I want to start you up right." It was a safe offer, taking all precedent into account, for no man ever had ridden Whetstone, not even his owner. The beast was an outlaw of the most pronounced type, with a repertory of tricks, calculated to get a man off his back, so extensive that he never seemed to repeat.
Angry and tactless letters, therefore, passed between d'Éon in London and de Guerchy, de Nivernais, and de Praslin in Paris. De Guerchy was dull and clumsy; d'Éon used him as the whetstone of his wit, with a reckless abandonment which proves that he was, as they say, 'rather above himself, like Napoleon before the march to Moscow. London, in short, was the Moscow of little d'Éon.
She picked radishes from the garden for supper, threw white screening over the imposing loaves of bread still cooling on the side table, and was sharpening a knife on a whetstone, preparatory to carving thin slices from a veal loaf that stood near by, when she was accosted by some one appearing suddenly in the doorway. "Is this the Red House?"
Skallagrim also ground his great axe upon the whetstone in the yard, singing as he ground. When all was ready, the horses were caught, and Eric spoke to the carline: "Hearken, nurse. If it may be that thou canst find any of our folk and perchance now that they see that Swanhild has ridden to Middalhof some one of them will come down to spy thou shalt say this to them.
A bitter tear rolled down Eustacia's face, which he did not see. There had been nonchalance in his tone, showing her that he felt no absolute grief at a consummation which to her was a positive horror. The very next day Yeobright went to Humphrey's cottage, and borrowed of him leggings, gloves, a whetstone, and a hook, to use till he should be able to purchase some for himself.
Lambert waited until the fellow mounted and rode toward the fence, then he slid down the shale, starting Whetstone from his doze. Lambert calculated that he was more than a mile from the fence. He wanted to get over there near enough to catch the fellow at work, so there would be full justification for what he intended to do.
The Nigger had come in during the discussion. He seated himself, and recommenced his favorite task of stropping his knife upon a whetstone. At the Cockney's last words he lifted his head. "Don' yoh touch de mate," he said to Cockney. "Dat man's mah meat, yes, suh, mah meat!" Cockney disputed this. He raved, and swore, and even threatened Nigger. Aye, he made a fine bluster.
Word Of The Day