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Otto the Knight, and Other Trans-Mississippi Stories (Classic Reprint) Octave Thanet No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 229 - When resisting any attempt to murder any person, or to commit a felony, or to do some great bodily injury upon any person; or, 2. When committed in defense of habitation, property, or person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors, by violence or surprise, to commit a felony...
Page 228 - That all murder, which shall be perpetrated by means of poison, or by lying in wait, or by any other kind of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, or which shall be committed in the perpetration or attempt to perpetrate any arson, rape, robbery, or burglary, shall be deemed murder of the first degree; and all other kinds of murder shall be deemed murder in the second degree...
Page 228 - It must be voluntary, upon a sudden heat of passion, caused by a provocation apparently sufficient to make the passion irresistible or involuntary, in the commission of an unlawful act, or a lawful act without due caution or circumspection.
Page 340 - With this reflection, which has eked out many a man's courage on the brink of a tussle with his womankind, Jeff waded along. A good deal of the time he had to hold Headlights on the mule or she would have slipped off through sheer weakness, and all the while she appeared to be in a kind of stupor. Once he asked her how she happened to hear of Jeffy's illness; how she came to be at the station. She said: "I came ter git Jeffy; I knowed ye'd have him back by ye, quick's ye 'lowed I done lit out. I...
Page 328 - dopted of 'im, nur nuthin'!" "Look a yere, you Mis' Headlights, or whutsomever 's yo' name," said Mrs. Brand, "ain't ye got no natchell motherlike feelin's 'bout the po' little trick's own intrusts? Look at him bein' raised so good, gwine ev'ry Sunday t' school or t' preachin', an' gittin' washed hisseff ever' mawnin', an' good cloze, and his knees patched beaucherful, an...
Page 213 - Meadowes's lips twitched with a grin of humorous appreciation. Though a Puritan, he was a Westerner. " I 'll bet a cooky you 've been on pins and needles," said he, " thinking whether you had ought to tell me, or could git off without." His face softened. "Lida does feature Rachel, an' they've got the same way of walkin'.
Page 342 - Come, Headlights, ye cayn't walk ; lean on me. Ye mus' jes' look at him an' come out ! " "I kin walk," answered Headlights, shortly.
Page 347 - I b'en cryin' fur that ar critter like she war my own kin. But she war so sorter bidable an' decent an' done the little trick so decent, ayfter all ! I sw'ar some folkses don' git no fair show in this world ! " " Bulah been cryin', too,
Page 316 - er; you lay down. Don' cry so, S'leeny, mabbe it frets 'er ter hear us; we kin cry, out-doors." Now it was the doctor's voice speaking: "You must rouse her somehow; she'll die or go crazy if you don't." "Rouse her? Lord God! how kin I, w'en I cayn't make her hear me? I wish't it b'en me stiddier the baby, Bulah; I b'en prayin' all night ter the Lord ter take me stiddier her.
Page 310 - Utterly bare are the tree-branches, save for a few rusty shreds clinging to the cypress-tops, a few bunches of mistletoe on the sycamores, or a gleam of hollyleaves in the thicket ; but scarlet berries flicker on purple limbs, the cane grows a fresher green, and, in February, red shoots will be decking the maple-twigs, there will be ribbons of weeds which glitter like jewels, floating under the pools of water and ferns waving above, •while the moss paints the silvery bark of sycamores, white-oaks,...