Merely he has dexterously slashed his left claw with his right!

The agent took out his big clasp knife and recklessly slashed one of them open.

The men of our guard flew like savage dogs at our servants: Khudhr and Ablahad seized the arms which were girded about them, slashing furiously with their daggers, to cut the straps of their guns and pistols.

I fired into the mass, as Watkins slashed madly with his cutlass, both managing in some way to keep our feet.

Merely he has dexterously slashed his left claw with his right!

Chase gingerly slashed open the envelope with his fruit knife.

" Macalister said nothing, and was slashed so heavily across the face that the stick broke in the striker's hands.

On the hill-top, at dawn, Colonel Ross-Ellison and Captain Malet-Marsac found all that was left of the picket and sentry-group,of the latter, three mangled corpses, the headless deserter, and a just-living man, horribly slashed.

Diligences, fiacres, and carriages resembling large, covered cabriolets, might be seen loaded with gaily-dressed women and children, with a due proportion of young Parisians, all just in the hey-day of mirth, drawn by dust-provoking Flanders horses, their drivers slashing almost indiscriminately, and, with their clamour and confusion, far exceeding the Epsom road on a raceday.

" "What do you mean?" cried my father, and he sprang to his feet and slashed his boot savagely with his riding-whip.

If the king makes any doubt of what he says, he continues to roar still louder and to slash himself more severely, till the king gives credit to his assertions.

He had succeeded at that moment in surreptitiously slashing the hitch rein in two with his pocket-knife.

I slashed upward in a tremendous "heave-to."

Some of the men were vigorously slashing away at the bars with sledges and crow-bars; others were crouching with rifles levelledin the other direction!

He was endeavouring to lug the struggling brute back with the strength of one arm, while with the other he slashed aimlessly.

When it began to rain they recovered themselves, and slashed away vigorouslywhen it was not wanted.

"Bravely he slashes Odin's red letters, Blood-runes of heroes, on arm and on breast.

How cunningly he had slashed him, and then plunged his fingers into the bleeding gash to make the wound deeper!

On the 15th of June a dead carcass, almost complete, was washed ashore near Torquay, and a few days later a boat from the Marine Biological station, engaged in dredging off Plymouth, picked up a rotting specimen, slashed deeply with a cutlass wound.