So did these two youths face each other, smiling above their gleaming steel, and so the long blades rang together, and, thereafter, the air was full of a clashing din, in so much that Roger came running sword in hand, with Walkyn and Giles at his heels; but, seeing how matters stood, they sat them down on the sward, watching round-eyed and eager.

When he turned, she saw him go back into the night with long strides, and within half an hour she knew, as clearly as if she were remembering the picture instead of foreseeing it, that Jack and Donnegan would face each other gun in hand on the floor of Milligan's dance hall.

Mr. Sweetwater, we have some doubts if the man we have in hand is the man we really want.

By and by he stood, letter in hand, before the person to whom it was addressed.

"Hello there!" called a voice from a distance, and a watchman appeared, lantern in hand.

" I assentednothing would give me more pleasure; and in filed the deputation, arranging themselves, hats in hand, round me in a semicircle.

"Can't wekeep to the subject in hand, as you said just now?" "I have a reason, a strong reason," said Sir Timothy, "for wishing you to remain at home to-morrow.

They ran hand in hand through the forest aisles, their faces as bright to each other as in daylight.

Yielding to the importunities of his friends, however, he takes his stick in hand and samples the game.

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Gone through the stock in hand, and found a deal of unsalable truck in Eleseus' store, even to such things as toothbrushes and embroidered table centres; ay, and stuffed birds on springs that squeaked when you pressed in the right place.

I stood facing them, revolver in hand.

They are about six feet in height and about half that breadth; on each is carved the figure of a mounted soldier, spear in hand.

And there was tea, always, and slow, sun-bathed wanderings in the garden, hand in hand with the Maestro.

But I cannot detail the two-years' incidents of that voyage: for it is past, and like a dream: and not to write of thatof all thathave I taken this pencil in hand after seventeen long, long years.

I dreaded, too, that he would begin about the gods, or the elemental forces, or something else disquieting, and I wanted to keep myself well in hand for what might happen later.

He saw a quire of ladies in a round That featly footing seem'd to skim the ground: Thus dancing hand in hand, so light they were, He knew not where they trod, on earth or air.

On they came, the brown figure leading, the white following trustfully, until they were quite up to the watchers, halted, still hand in hand.

The Teherkéss, with a shout, fired their guns for the last time, and breaking them against the stones, they threw themselves, dagger in hand, upon the Russians.

SEE STEVENS, MARVIN A. STEVENS, MARVIN A. An American method in hand-to-hand combat.

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As they were born with their minds closed to every inspiration of beauty or poetry, they spent their lives gun in hand in the woods near Madrid, shooting the deer and yawning with disgust at the fatigues of the chase, while the queens amused themselves at a distance hanging on to the arm of one of the bodyguard.

"That's a pretty sight now, shiver my timbers if it ain't," observed old Captain Hudgins, who had stood, hat in hand, during the ceremony.

I put it on, and, camera in hand, started to crawl on all fours toward Spitfire.

Less nimbly now through brakes they wind, And ford wild creeks where men have drowned; They skirt the pool, a void the fen, And so till night, when down they lie, They steeds still saddled, in wooded ground: Rein in hand they slumber then, Dreaming of Mosby's cedarn den.