Each had counted a coup on the other, and they then went back to their camps.

Oh, I have made some great coups in the last eight or nine years, Ivor!...

"That made the first coup for the Alley," continued Miss Judy, exulting.

The patience of the Germans was exhausted, and the Kaiser made the coup of Agadir.

" "And made your first coup at the Château de Montalais!"

Suffice it to say that he made a grand coup with it, in the purchase of a mill-privilege, or claim, or something of the kind.

"I don't believe there's another man breathing who would have had the courage to plan a coup like this.

But madame still took care to preserve such figure as unkind fate had left her; and monsieur still kept his moustaches waxed to a needle's point; and they sat there together, quite immovable, for hours at a time, staring drearily out toward the horizon, meditating, no doubt, over past glories, or arranging some coup by which their fortunes might be retrieved.

The governor had postponed the coup from day to day, waiting upon the leisurely movements of Falkland; and at the end of the ends there remained but three hours of the final day of grace when the telegram came from Falkland with the welcome news that the Overland officials were on their way from Midland City to keep the appointment in Gaston.

Not only had her coup against the Servians failed, but her troops were fleeing before the victorious Greeks up the Struma valley.

The othersmall, quick, mercurial, with blue-black, curling beard and hair, a fly-switch for ever flicking in his left handwas Scott, of the Courier, who had come through more dangers and brought off more brilliant coups than any man in the profession, save the eminent Chandler, now no longer in a condition to take the field.

Baptiste claimed the coupalthough acknowledging that he had not actually touched the manon the ground that he had exposed himself to all the danger, and would have hit the man if his horse had not swerved as it did from the body; but the Pawnees would not allow it, and all gave the credit of the coup to the other boy, because he had actually touched the enemy.