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Just then a legion of devils passed by, and some attempted to bite the heels of ten or twelve of the devils that had brought them there: "Woe and ruin take you, ye hell-hounds!" exclaimed one of the bitten devils, at the same time stamping upon the quagmire until they sank in the reeking depths.
"No; I came at this hour of the night because I surmised that in the future you and your hell-hounds would be so busy all day 'beating up game for the guillotine' that the only time you would have at the disposal of your friends would be the late hours of the night. I saw you at the theatre a couple of hours ago, friend Heron; I didn't think to find you yet abed." "Well, what do you want?"
Bezers was close to us at the time. "S'death!" he cried, swearing oaths which even his sovereign could scarce have equalled. "They will snatch him from me yet, the hell-hounds!" He whirled his horse round and spurred him in a dozen bounds to the stairs at our end of the gallery.
Would the villains, scoundrels, hell-hounds, sons of vipers never go? At length a few Rebels sprang up and tried to fly. They were shot down instantly. Then the whole line rose and ran! The relief was so great that we jumped to our feet and cheered wildly, forgetting in our excitement to make use of our victory by shooting down our flying enemies. Nor was an element of fun lacking.
"Only a whack over the nose with the butt of a gun, which will doubtless improve his looks. Any change would." "Guess we can go back now with some peace and comfort," said Abe, coming up, and alluding to the cessation of the firing in their front. "That last round took all the fight out of them hell-hounds across the field." "Some of you had better go over to the camp there and get our axes.
Though we think it reason, what you say, and in our minds agree that we should do as you say yea, and peradventure think also that we would indeed do as you say yet as soon as we should once hear those hell-hounds the Turks come yalping and howling upon us, our hearts should soon fall as clean from us as those other harts fled from the hounds.
But now that he was away from that evil spot his doubts returned. What if she were still in the neighborhood what if they found her? Memory of Honey's vindictiveness made him shiver, Honey was the kind of woman who would kill. "I am, from now on, kid," he said despondently. "We're going to ride till we find your sister. And if those hell-hounds got her "
One of the Lambeth guards, a native of Blunsdon, in Wiltshire, had told Anthony himself that a pack of hell-hounds had been heard there, in full cry after a ghostly quarry. Phantom ships had been seen from Bodmin attacking a phantom castle that rode over the waves off the Cornish coast.
I shuddered as I saw the variety of these mean Satanic faces, portraying a depth of vileness, mingled with shrewd and scholarly insight. With great care I studied this pack of Hell-hounds, gathered from the ends of the earth, now standing in sullen mood, ready to give their report. "What tidings, good or ill?" asked the chairman. "The tidings are good," replied the famous leader.
As after a feast, when we have despatched a quantity of wine, there sometimes, as it were, arises a second appetite, unnatural to be sure, but very keen; so, in a career of dissipation, when our passion for pleasure appears to be exhausted, the fatal fancy of man, like a wearied hare, will take a new turn, throw off the hell-hounds of ennui, and course again with renewed vigour.
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