As the man came on, then, Pretty gave a terrific backward slash that caught the tramp's uninjured shin.

He came with a snarl, a savage intake of breath, as he felt the hot slash of Pete's bullet.

The face of Miguel appeared in the opening and again he grinned, until his mouth formed a mighty slash across his face.

Apparently no fear of possible disaster disturbed Billie, however, for I could hear every few moments the slash of a whip on the animal's flank.

A laugh raised at the expense of a brother is enough to justify the severest slash.

"Say, Dade," he asked irrelevantly and with a mystifying earnestness, "which do you think would kill a man quickesta slash across the throat, or a stab in the heart?"

But M. Haggren, after having observed the slash from the Orange-lily, the anthers of which are a considerable space distant from the petals, found that the light proceeded from the petals only; whence he concludes, that this electric light is caused by the pollen, which in flying off is scattered upon the petals.

For the last thug Pretty had prepared a beautiful back-handed slash across the face; but the villain, seeing what was in store for him, dropped down, and rushed at the boy low enough to evade the stick.

He cut a deep slash in the stick he held, then added: "Don't make no odds ner no diff'rence one way er t' other.

Jack and Hawtry, who had only received one or two slight slashes of knives, remained to see what came of it.