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"Oh, they play cards, do they, at the Breakneck Club?" said Dyck, alive with interest. "Well, call it what you like, but men must do something when they get together, and we can't be talking all the time. So pocket your shillings." "Are they all the right sort?" asked Dyck, with a little touch of malice. "I mean, are they loyal and true?" Erris Boyne laid a hand on Dyck's arm. "Come and find out.
The man trembled as with a chill as he started to his feet, clambered over the fence, and mounted his wheel. But it was his chance and he knew it. The terror was no longer between him and Mill Valley. He sped at a breakneck rate down the hill, but in the turn at the bottom, in the deep shadows, he encountered a chuck-hole and pitched headlong over the handle bar.
The Germans had their bacon stolen from the larder; the gospodarz Marcinezak, who returned rather tipsy from absolution, was attacked by men with blackened faces and thrown out of his cart, with which the robbers drove off at breakneck speed. Even the poor tailor Niedoperz, when crossing a wood, was relieved of the three roubles he had earned with so much labour.
"And I can swim as well as you," the other retorted. It would have been hard to forecast the outcome of this dispute; but, as it was, the swift rush of events made any settlement needless. The Reindeer had jibed over and was plowing back at breakneck speed, careening at such an angle that it seemed she must surely capsize. It was a gallant sight.
Tchertop-hanov struck his horse on the muzzle with his whip, and galloped off at a breakneck pace. Tihon Ivanitch bowed to me twice, once for himself and once for his companion, and again set off at a trot into the bushes. These two gentlemen aroused my curiosity keenly. What could unite two creatures so different in the bonds of an inseparable friendship? I began to make inquiries.
The number of Cossacks in Transcaucasia being very limited, for a few only are stationed in each principal town, chiefly as an escort to the governor of the province, their duties are performed by Chapars, an irregular force, equally dashing horsemen, and trained in like manner from early youth in those singular exercises and breakneck evolutions for which the Cossacks of the Caucasus have become so famous.
He paced the platform, looking out anxiously for the train. At length he heard the welcome sound of the approaching locomotive. The train came to a stop, and among the first to enter it was the eminent elocutionist. He took a seat beside the window looking out toward the village. What did he see that brought such an anxious look in his face? A buggy was approaching the depot at breakneck speed.
I have my rifle ready, and will shoot the first wolf that shows itself. "'Very good, master, he answered. 'I will do everything that can be done to save your skin and mine. He cracked his whip, and away flew the horses at a breakneck speed.
From twenty miles per hour the speed climbed up to twenty-five, then thirty, then thirty-five, and finally forty. Over the newly-mended bridge they dashed at breakneck speed. "Be on your guard, Tom," warned Sam. "We've got to get there," was the grim response. "The girls may be in danger." "Right you are! Let her go for all she is worth!"
Although it bored her dreadfully, as she knew that there was no way out of it, she would go through with it, sit at the piano with a determined air, and gallop through her rondo at breakneck speed, stumbling over certain passages, make a hash of others, break off, turn her head, and say, with a smile: "Oh! I can't remember...."
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