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Rumor ran that he was the best pistol shot in the Rockies and as bad a man as the worst. Plummer thought that Crawford suspected him of belonging to the bandits, and so doomed him. Crawford was wary, and defeated three separate attempts to waylay and kill him, besides avoiding several quarrels that were thrust upon him by Plummer or his men.
But it got out in some way on the voyage that I had money, and as there was a mixed lot of 'Sydney ducks' and 'ticket of leave men' on board, it seems they hatched a nice little plot to waylay me on the wharf on landing, rob me, and drop me into deep water.
To fierce spirits, unrestrained by principle, or maddened by fanaticism, it seemed that to waylay and murder the King and his brother was the shortest and surest way of vindicating the Protestant religion and the liberties of England. A place and a time were named; and the details of the butchery were frequently discussed, if not definitely arranged.
The child would never have said a word to me." "How simply outrageous!" said the girl, and became silent and thoughtful. "Well, what do you think I'd better do, Sharlee?" "I think you'd better let me waylay him in the hall after supper and tell him that the time has come when he must either pay up or pack up." "My dear! Can you well be as blunt as that?"
"We find a verdict of wilful murder against Cornelius Dalton, Senior, for that he, on or about the night of the fourteenth of December, in the year of grace, 1798, did follow and waylay Bartholomew Sullivan, and deprive him of his life by blows and violence, having threatened him to the same effect in the early part of the aforesaid day."
"It would be possible for me to get that gold, and for other Kurds not you or your men, of course, but other Kurds to waylay me in the mountains. Therefore let part of the agreement be that you leave with me ten hostages, of whom two shall be your blood relations." The Kurd winced.
'Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilight too, her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn, A dancing shape, an image gay, To haunt, to startle, and waylay.
"Maybe it's a plot," suggested the widow. "Might waylay you," added Uncle Enos. "A man like him is liable to do 'most anything." "I don't think he would dare do me any bodily injury," I replied. "He would know I had told some one where I was going, and that my absence would be noticed." "If you go, take me in tow," said my uncle.
You forget, I have become bond for you, and must therefore accompany you to where you live, that I may certify the place. Also, perhaps, it is safest, for these countrymen of mine are revengeful, and, were I not with you, might waylay you." Now, seeing from his face that Peter was still bent upon declining this escort, Margaret interposed quickly.
If Jeanne only walked down in the town like some of the girls! If Rose might ask her to go! But Rose did not dare, and then there was Martin ready to waylay her. Three were awkward when you liked best to have a young man to yourself. How many times Pierre had watched her unseen, her lithe figure that seemed always atilt even when wrapped in furs, and her starry eyes gleaming out of her fur hood.
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