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Then, throwing the barrel of my weapon forward, I descended, slowly, into the darkness of the underground regions.
Col. Aldrich did not pretend to be much of an orator, and in his speech of acceptance he stated that while he was not endowed with as much oratorical ability as some of his associates on the ticket, yet he could work as hard as any one, and he promised that he would sweat at least a barrel in his efforts to promote the success of the ticket.
I filled a barrel with the dust, and concealing it and the tubes under carpets which I laid upon the backs of oxen, I set out to the city of Constantinople.
To pay the fellow for his painsfor he had dug in barrels to his shoulders and had a smudge across his noseI bought a copy of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence," and in my more energetic moods I read it.
If the commercial hotels down-town haven't taken them all, buy every remaining barrel at once!
Some of these were to pound four bushels of ears of corn every night in a barrel for the poultry, or be rigorously punished.
Anyhow, sweating and quaking, he blurted out his story, and when he offered to halt I made rings with the barrel on the flesh of his neck.
Being about thirty yards off, I took a good aim at his body through the bush, and fired both barrels into it.
Daggett got one hundred and thirty-three barrels from his three fish, a very fair proportion of head, though not as large as our own.
Anyhow, I feel like goin' on a tear myselfnot a drunka man's a darned fool that'll let any woman make a whisky barrel out of him!
High up on the mountain's brow, against the sky, Johnnie caught a glimpse of the heads and shoulders of men, with the slanting bar of a gun barrel over one.
Johnston fired both barrels without effect.
He told me that I might place some barrels against it, however, if I felt so inclined, which of course I did.
To my delight, I found that it was quite loose, and I managed, using the rifle-barrel as a crowbar, to lever it out from the wall.
Ordinarily, had Plooie chased a small boy who had tipped a barrel down his basement steps, nothing would have come of it.
"Missus, she had a big barrel ob lumpy sugah in de pantry.
They saw her leaning against the baluster of the stair, one arm bound tightly to her side, the other resting a revolver barrel along the baluster and glancing down it with a fearless eye.
The crop in the latter year was particularly notable, both in its yield of three barrels per acre, or 161-1/2 barrels per working hand, and its price of four cents per pound or $24 per barrel.
III Hilda stood on a barrel by the side of Edwin Clayhanger on another barrel.
The Right Bower, with a sudden access of energy, drew the empty barrel before him, and taking a pack of well-worn cards from his pocket, began to make a "solitaire" upon the lid.
If I do, pickle me in a barrel among cabbage.
How came one of them to get into the barrel outside your stable before your return the next day?" "I cannot say.
It commands a much higher price by the barrel than the lake-trout or white-fish, and is rarely to be met with out of the Lake cities.
One o'clock on Yule morning having struck, the young men turn out in large numbers, dressed in the coarsest of garments, and, at the double-quick march, drag huge tar barrels through the town, shouting and cheering as they go, or blowing loud blasts with their 'louder horns.'
Their Father made a sign to them all to fall to work with their hatchets, which they had long held ready, and in an incredibly short time barrel after barrel of corn was broken open and emptied, while even the little children possessed themselves of pans and kettles full, and hastened to the fires that were blazing around to parch and cook that which they had seized.