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As he reached me, I saw that he was bleeding from what appeared to be a great claw wound in the side that had almost laid bare his ribs.
A vast rain seemed to come with it, and a wind of a most extraordinary loudnessas though the howling of a nightlong gale, were packed into the space of no more than a minute.
And hark To the sorrowful cry Of the wind in the dark.
WHY In the third winter of a world-madness, with Europe guzzling blood and wild with the taste of it, America grew flatulent, stenching winds from the battle-field blowing her prosperity.
She gave medicine to the sick and bandaged the wounds of those who got hurt.
I knew the cause, now, of that hateful looking wound on his sideI knew, also, that, what I had seen last night, had been a real happening.
I stood stock still for a moment, during which the only sounds audible were the singing of the winds through the rigging, the wash of the sea, and the small, sharp click of Perdosa's instrument as he worked at the chest.
A country feeding into the insatiable maw of war with one hand, and with the other pouring relief-funds into coffers bombarded by guns of its own manufacturequelling the wound with a finger and widening it with a knife up the cuff.
In 1761 he was wounded at the storming of Port Andro during the attack on Belle Isle off the west coast of France.
Down she bore upon the greater vessel until it seemed as if she must ram; but all the time she was veering to windward, and now she ran into the wind with a castanet rattle of sails.
With the wind at south-west, I want to get under the Anglesey coast.
There had been an attack on my tobacco shed by some of the English seamen, and in the mellay one of my blacks got an ugly wound from a cutlass.
The fact that they had this increasingly favourable wind on their very first day showed that they were specially smiled on by the great natural forces.
PROVIDENCE tempering the wind to the shorn lamb.
It seemed to her that something of wonder and anguish and dismay was in the room round her,as if some one unseen had heard a bitter reproach, an accusation undeserved, which must wound to the very heart.
The paddling is all down stream, except when they turn south up Peel River, and sails should be taken, as there is often a favorable wind for days.
A long, low, blood-curdling laugh, as if a dozen mocking fiends stood at his elbow,or was it just the shrieking of the wind among the gables?
It is the fourth bottle, or perhaps the fifth, that seems to free me from the restraints that old habits and early education have wound about me.
Four or five miles down the lake, is a beautiful bay, stretching for near half a mile around a high promontory, almost reaching another bay winding around a like promontory beyond, leaving a peninsula of five hundred acres joined to the main land, by a narrow neck of some forty rods in width.
He rides down the gulch and winds out of it and strikes for the shack at the ford.
It took two days to repair our wagons and get our baggage readjusted, and finally, on the thirteenth, the army set in motion again, winding along the narrow road through the forest like some gigantic, parti-colored serpent, with strength barely sufficient to drag its great length along.
I was therefore safe, and free to take the wind into my pulses and enjoy the excited forest from my superb outlook.
"In a wind like this, if the door is open, we have to hold fast to things to keep them from running down the Yukon.
Back of them the long column came, slowly winding over the sandy highway which curved through the undulating land.
155 Thy fragrant gales and lute-resounding streams, Breathe o'er the failing soul voluptuous dreams; While Slavery, forcing the sunk mind to dwell On joys that might disgrace the captive's cell, Her shameless timbrel shakes along thy marge, 160 And winds between thine isles the vocal barge.