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In other circumstances Mariano would certainly have engaged in a struggle for the dagger, but remembering Angela and the Jew's warning, he gave back, and said in French, as well as the vice-like grip would allow "A friend."
Then came the call. Out of the blackness of the moor it came, wild and distant "Help! help!" "Smith!" I whispered "what is it? What...." "Mr. Smith!" came the agonized cry ... "Nayland Smith, help! for God's sake...." "Quick, Smith!" I cried, "quick, man! It's Van Roon he's been dragged out ... they are murdering him...." Nayland Smith held me in a vice-like grip, silent, unmoved!
"Rather difficult to discover it amidst all these weapons, Mr. Morley. Good heavens! what is the matter?" He might well ask. His host was clutching his arm in a vice-like hold, and was pointing to a certain part of the wall whereon hung a pair of ancient pistols, a crusader's shield, and an old helmet. "The stiletto was there. It is gone!" gasped Morley. "Impossible. Who can have taken it?"
I will appear before them, put them to the blush, kill them both, then put an end to my own wretched existence. That is what I intend to do, and nothing shall stop me!" If M. Verduret had not held Prosper with a vice-like grip, he would have escaped, and carried out his threat. "If you make any noise, Prosper, or raise an alarm, all your hopes are ruined." "I have no hopes now."
The men of the "Trident" who had the strongest arms and chests were therefore sent into the chains, where they leaned forward in slings with outstretched arms, and whenever the boats sheered up close enough they caught the women or children in their vice-like grasp and dragged them on board.
The King is listening to a quarrel between an Englishman and a Dane; and by reason of it, there are many in the room whose tempers may " Randalin, who alone of all the maidens had remained undauntedly at her mistress' elbow, caught that elbow in a vice-like grip. "Take the gallery, then, lady!" she urged in a piercing whisper. "The gallery, as quick as you can."
At any moment that soft, confidence-inspiring voice might break forth in a roar of wrath, that gentle and caressing hand transform itself into a vice-like grip to hold him helpless and administer punishment. But the god talked on softly, and ever the hand rose and fell with non- hostile pats. White Fang experienced dual feelings. It was distasteful to his instinct.
"Lend a hand, will you?" Lord James stepped quickly to the other side of Blake, who clasped each about the neck in a maudlin but vice-like embrace. As they moved toward the bedroom, Griffith exclaimed with strategic enthusiasm: "That's it, boys, come right on in. It's so confounded dusty here, let's have a bath." "All ri', Grishsh, en'ching you shay.
I bring, through intercession of the pope, a pardon from our king. And thou and thine, if henceforth ye are pleased to remain at peace, will be accepted by the law which now holds your lives forfeit." Sartello grasped with a vice-like pressure the hand which the youth held out.
For one second Philip strove against him the next, he closed his eyes Thelma's face smiled on his mind in that darkness as though in white farewell the surging blood roared in his ears with more thunder than the terrific tumble of the torrent "God!" he muttered, and then then he stood safe on the upper part of the rocky platform with Lorimer's strong hand holding him in a vice-like grasp, and Lorimer's face, pale, but looking cheerfully into his.
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