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Presently he came upon a great package of signed oaths of allegiance, which he was shoving to one side as of no immediate importance, when the name signed at the bottom of the uppermost one caught his eye. "Oh, Joe, Joe!" he laughed, taking up the paper, "is this thy much-vaunted love of freedom?" Glancing at the second, he added, "And Esquire Hennion!
They key fact upon both British and French fronts was the complete ascendancy of the Allies aeroplanes. It is the necessary preliminary condition for the method upon which the great generals of the French army rely in this sanitary task of shoving the German Thing off the soil of Belgium and France back into its own land.
I peered under the branches, and my heart beat fast as I saw Meg Hawkes awaiting me. 'Come away, lass, whispered Beauty, very pale; 'he's here Tom Brice. And she led the way, shoving aside the leafless underwood, and we reached Tom.
He first ran a tilt against Pam be Civil, and shot him like a rocket into the sea; the Monkey fared no better; the Ballahoo had to swim for it; and having thus opened a way by main force, I at length got safely moored in the stern sheets; but just as we were shoving off, Mr Callaloo, the clergyman of Port Royal, a tall yellow personage, begged for a passage, and was accordingly taken on board.
The schooner's sails being stowed, Rogers was soon alongside. With no little satisfaction they stepped into his boat. Just as they were shoving off, Queerface, who had hitherto been looking over the side, chattering in the most voluble manner, made a spring and leaped in after them, and took his seat aft as if he thought himself one of them, as Paddy remarked.
I was on the very point of offering to accompany him as pilot, when I remembered that I was supposed to know nothing of the place. The commander gave an unwilling consent, for he did not like to risk more of his people. He was just shoving off, when first one boat was seen to emerge from among the trees, then another, and lastly four appeared thus one only was missing.
Holmes had a grouch on just then, for some reason or other, and he answered me by throwing one of his shoes in my direction, which I hastily dodged by shoving my head under the bedclothes as he growled: "Didn't you just make the equivalent of fifty thousand Yankee dollars for three or four days' work, the most of which I did, Watson?
"Thats a nice how-do-you-do," said Mr. O'Connor. "How does he expect us to work for him if he won't stump up?" "I can't help it," said Mr. Henchy. "I expect to find the bailiffs in the hall when I go home." Mr. Hynes laughed and, shoving himself away from the mantelpiece with the aid of his shoulders, made ready to leave. "It'll be all right when King Eddie comes," he said.
But the car which came from between the live-oaks to park behind the first contained only two passengers. LeFleur and Creighton got out, stopped in surprise to view the party on the terrace, and then came up, shoving by Red. "Quite a party," Val observed. "But how did you manage to arrive so opportunely?" "We have made a discovery," panted the Creole lawyer; "a very important discovery.
His voice broke off as he jerked his arm from me. My hand with the projector came up, but with a sweeping blow he struck my wrist. The weapon dropped to the rocks. I fought instinctively, those first moments; my mind was whirling with the shock of surprise. This was not Wilks, but the brigand Coniston. It was an eerie combat. We swayed; shoving, kicking, wrestling.
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