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José, his left arm helpless, but his deadly right hand still gripping his knife, hurled himself on Julio, who had seized a machete from somewhere. Knowlton slammed a bullet between the eyes of the foremost boga, who pitched headlong. He swung the muzzle to the other man's chest yanked at the trigger got no response. The gun was jammed.
Neither's Bailey, I judge, though for a while he was as full of suggestions as a pine grove is of woodticks. He started to say somethin' about it to me last night, but Ketury hove in sight and yanked him off to prayer meetin'." "Yes, I know. She cal'lates to get him into heaven somehow." "I guess 'twouldn't BE heaven for her unless he was round to pick at. There he comes now.
"But when I see the beast abused, And clubbed around as I've saw some, I want to see his owner noosed, And jest yanked up like Absolum! "Of course they's differunce in stock, A hoss that has a little yeer, And slender build, and shaller hock, Can beat his shadder, mighty near!
He's closter t' handin' in his checks t'-day than he's been at all. Just think o' him keepin' still through all that row, an lettin' himself be yanked around like a bag o' meal without takin' any notice of it! But there's just a squeal of a chance for him if we do get clear away.
But it was a quarter after three already, he was practically broke and he had no idea where she could be found. Bruce Gordon jerked the door open to yell for Izzy while he tucked the bit of notebook cover into his pocket. Then he stopped as something nibbled at his mind; the odor Gordon had smelled before registered. He yanked out the bit of notebook and sniffed.
"Be still, behave, and you be all right," promised the other Italian, in a gruff appeal for reasonableness. Though he tried to fight like a savage, Jack Benson soon found himself being yanked to his feet, while a stalwart laborer held him by either arm. "You see, you can do nothing," advised the Italian who had thrown the boy. "You not want to get hurt?
Tom yanked on the brake, and the iron-shod pieces of wood dug into the ground, checking the progress of the monoplane on its bicycle wheels. "Have you got it, Tom?" yelled Ned. "I have," was the answer of the young inventor as he leaped from his seat. "Is it good powder?" asked the foreman, anxiously. "I don't know," spoke Tom. "I didn't have time to look.
It must be one swift, decisive, conquering stroke for honor's sake. Jack's trembling right hand went into one of his trousers pockets. He found his clasp-knife, yanked it out, opened one of the blades, and Hal Hastings, who had been watching every move with breathless interest, now rolled noiselessly so that his chum could reach the rope that held him captive. In another twinkling Hal was free.
Claire said doubtfully, "Well If you can get me right back to the house " "Sure," agreed Milt. When the Loco was gone, Milt drove the bug to the side of the road, yanked up the emergency brake, and carefully kissed the girl who was snuggled down into the absurd low tin-sided seat. "Do we have to get back soon?" he begged. "Oh, I don't care if we never get back. Let's shoot up into the mountains.
"I'll tell you what, boss," said Maverick, glancing at the window on the right of Haight's desk, where hung an old, dilapidated shade, which had been lowered its full length in an effort to keep out the intolerable heat, "you let that there shade hang jest as it is till you want me, and when I see that yanked up, I'll know what it means, and you'll hear from me in jest about ten minits at the latest.
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