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Up on the earth embankments within the chief's house the four Americans fought steadily on; the soldiers shooting as coolly as if engaged merely in rapid-fire target practice, the silent Rand methodically driving arrows in swift succession from his wall-slit. Arrows thudded thickly into the logs masking them.
Three minutes later, to their infinite surprise, the bridge thudded down to span the ditch, and I walked out upon it with Bianca at my side. "Will the Lord Cosimo come within to deliver his message?" I demanded. The Lord Cosimo would not, fearing a trap. "Will he meet us here upon the bridge, divesting himself first of his weapons? Myself I am unarmed."
Blicky darted through the door and his footsteps thudded out of hearing. "You can't force me to marry you," said Joan. "I I won't open my lips." "That's your affair. I've no mind to coax you," he replied, bitterly. "But if you don't I'll try Gulden's way with a woman.... You remember. Gulden's way! A cave and a rope!" Joan's legs gave out under her and she sank upon a pile of blankets.
He was nearing me fast he was close upon me closer within reach of me. I could hear his whistling breaths, and then, all at once, I was down on hands and knees; he tried to avoid me failed, and, shooting high over me, thudded down upon the grass.
The dark-eyed child sat poised forward, her hands clasped about her knees, her tremulous gaze fixed on the flying fingers. She started and caught her breath sharply. Faster and faster thudded the hoofs; the note of questioning fear beat louder, and into the sweet, answering melody crept a note of doubt, undefined and terrible, a spirit echo of the flying hoofs.
He tried to lock his big arms around the other's waist in an attempt to wrestle, realizing that in that sort of a contest lay his only hope of victory, but Trevison, agile, alert to his danger, slipped elusively from the grasping hands and thudded uppercuts to the other's mouth and jaws that landed with sickening force. But none of the blows landed on a vital spot, and Corrigan hung grimly on.
She dropped the man obediently, though with protest writ large on her face; and his body thudded to the floor. Bonner nudged him with his moccasined foot. "Get up, Amos!" he commanded. "You've got to pack an outfit yet to-night and hit the trail." "You don't mean to say " Amos blurted savagely. "I mean to say that you tried to kill me," Neil went on in cold, even tones.
He raised his hat, and in another moment the gallop of Cleopatra's swift hoofs thudded across the grass and echoed over the fields, gradually diminishing and dying away, as mare and rider disappeared within the enfolding green of the Manor woods.
Hand-weapons roared, flashed, and sparkled; heavy bars crashed and thudded against crunching bones; mighty bodies and tails whipped crushingly about six-limbed forms which wrenched and tore with monstrously powerful hands and claws. Fiercely and valiantly the Vorkuls fought, but they were outnumbered by hundreds and only one outcome was possible. Kromodeor was one of the last to go down.
He saw where the next leap would bring him within its terrible grip, and he made that leap to one side instead, so that the rawhide thudded into the dust alongside his nose. He swerved again lest José in jerking it up should catch his feet, and went on with an exultant toss of his white head. It was the game he knew the game Diego had played with him many times, to the discomfiture of the peon.
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