The Story of the FilibustersT. F. Unwin, 1891 - 373 sidor |
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Sida 193 - I had overcome about half the space which separated it from me, when I saw the combatants come to the ground, and, after a short struggle, I saw the uppermost one (for I could not see the other) make a heavy plunge with both his thumbs, and at the same instant I heard a cry in the accent of keenest torture, "Enough! My eye's out!
Sida 193 - I went to the ground from which he had risen, and there were the prints of his two thumbs, plunged up to the balls in the mellow earth, about the distance of a man's eyes apart ; and the ground around was broken up as if two stags had been engaged upon it.
Sida 193 - Well, I started off to the Cross Roads dressed in my hunting shirt, and my rifle on my shoulder. Many of our constituents had assembled there to get a taste of the quality of the candidates at orating.
Sida 210 - But toom cam' the saddle, all bluidy to see, And hame cam' the steed, but hame never cam
Sida 193 - Oh, wake snakes, and walk your chalks! Brimstone and— fire! Don't hold me, Nick Stoval! The fight's made up, and let's go at it— My soul if I don't jump down his throat, and gallop every chitterling out of him before you can say 'quit'!
Sida 193 - Oh, yes ; I'll see you a fair fight, blast my old shoes if I don't." " That's sufficient, as Tom Haynes said when he saw the elephant. Now let him come.
Sida 119 - But if anybody complains that I have had it looked over, I can only say to him, her, or them — as the case may be — that while critics were learning grammar, and learning to spell, I, and " Doctor Jackson, LLD" were fighting in the wars ; and if our books, and messages, and proclamations, and cabinet writings, and so forth, and so on, should need a little looking over, and a little correcting of the spelling and grammar to make them fit for use, it's just nobody's business.
Sida 155 - I come to the channel, where I crossed that on a high log. I then took water again, having my gun and all my hunting• tools along, and waded till I came to a deep slough, that was wider than the river itself. I had crossed it often on a log ; but behold, when I got there, no log was to be seen. I...