Those from the western counties met in arms under General Shepard, and took possession of the arsenal at Springfield.
Being desirous of wiping off the disgrace which his arms had sustained, General Harmar halted about eight miles from Chilicothe, and once more detached Colonel Harden with orders to find the enemy and bring on an engagement.
A country rescued by their arms from impending ruin, will never leave unpaid the debt of gratitude.
The routed troops continued their flight to fort Jefferson, a distance of about thirty miles, throwing away their arms on the road.
Advancing to the center of the stage, she stretched her arms wide in mute appeal to the empty seats.
His arms were bound behind him in a curious fashion; in fact they were so bound by ropes and a stick that his arms might have been twisted from their sockets, and this by a few simple turns of that stick.
And to-morrow evening--" She rose to fling her splendid arms wide.
One moment the little old lady, who was not five feet tall and did not weigh ninety pounds, was in peril of her life; the next she was caught in Florence's powerful arms and was being borne to safety.
In her eagerness Jeanne gripped the arms of her chair hard.
She spread herarms wide as if to take in a vast audience.
But as warden of civic liberty it can, at the approach of domination from without, or autocracy uplifting its head within, awaken the threatened ones, and call them to arms in its own defence.
He was adjusted for torment by a belt or girdle with which he was swung from the ground; his arms were tied together across his breast and were attached by cords to rings in the wall.
All the Venetian envoys of the period, in fact, describe the absence of military resources in Spain, the difficulty of raising troops and the unfamiliarity with arms of those who made such splendid soldiers when disciplined and trained.
One cord was applied to the arms and twisted and she was admonished to tell the truth but said she had nothing to tell.
The remedy for this was the immediate exile of all who were penanced or, if they were allowed to remain, the branding of them on the forehead with the arms of the Inquisition.
The baptized lowlanders, who had taken to the mountains, were allowed to return home, surrendering their arms and suffering confiscation.
In one case, that of Abel Jocis, for conveying arms to Barbary, the sentence was merely a prohibition to sail to Barbary, but a violation of this was visited with the galleys for life.
In the Concordia of 1528, the Moriscos asked that their arms be restored to them, and were told that they would be treated as Old Christians.
The tying of thearms was commenced; she said "I have told the truth; what have I to tell?
The city became quiet; those who had slain the alguazil were surrendered, and four of them were hanged; the Moors cast aside their arms and returned to work.
Neil's arms went out to her suddenly and drew her close, holding her gently, and hiding her small, pathetic face against his shoulder.
Mrs. Burr had drawn the knot suddenly tight in the white scarf she was manipulating, and slipped out of the Colonel's arms and out of reach.
She was quiet in his arms like a frightened and tired child in any arms held out to it.
He kissed it reverently and lightly, once only, and then his arms let her go.
Neil parried them easily, caught his thinarms and held them at his sides.
He brushed the butterfly touch away and raised his head and looked long at her, slipping both arms round her waist and holding her tight.
With a little sigh she slipped off the desk and into the arms he held out for her, closing her eyes.
Judith, seeing her face in the glass, turned suddenly and slipped her armsround the formidable old creature's neck, and laughed at her.
I used to be a hard hitter, and my arms are very long for my height (5 feet 8-1/2 inches).
I feel all the better for it, in spirits, though my arms and shoulders are very stiff from it.
He had taken me in his arms and pillowed my drooping head upon his manly breast.
Arrived here, I flung myself upon one of the rustic benches that lined the walls, and throwing my arms at full length across the small table that stood beside me, I laid my face down upon them and burst into tears.
I sprang from my hiding-place, and leaning my armsupon the bars of the gate as before, I said timidly: "Who is that?
Fred occupied the sofa, where he was comfortably stretched at full length, with his arms thrown carelessly over his head which was resting tenderly in his palms.
Why, of course it is," she answered, stretching her arms drowsily over her head and laughing lazily.
And he is by far the most popular person in the city," my step-mother broke forth again, sinking into a seat near the window and folding her arms I looked up, but did not close my book.
Without raising my eyes I answered quietly: "Do not excite yourself for nothing, you may be sure I shall not disgrace you, but I am determined not to get into the arms of any of these men to-night.
Anthony took her in hisarms and looked into her eyes.
He set the dog down, stretched out his arms wearily, and got upon his feet.
Her sleeves were rolled up, and her hands and arms dripping.
With a sudden wrench he was out of the girl's arms and across the shadowy hall.
For him she was a creature of the country-side, sun-kissed, folded in the arms of the wind, with the pure red wine of Nature singing through her delicate veins.
Then ropes were sent for, and two of his magnificent sailors lashed his arms to his sides.
And all the time his arms were tiring--both of them--tiring rapidly.
She turned and leaned her arms upon the stone balustrade, overlooking dim lawns and, beyond, the pale ghost of a great park that seemed to stretch and roll unlimited into the depths of a distance which Night had bewitched.
Then she gave a little sob, and, putting her arms about his neck, drew down his head and kissed him frantically.
The cold majesty of a lion had looked out of those terrible eyes; neck, chest, and arms proclaimed the strength of a Hercules; the pose was that of a demi-god at bay.
It was she who had brought a gallant gentleman to this pass--she who had smashed the exquisite wonder of melody their hearts had danced to--she who had hacked asunder the silken bridge of love and sent her lover into the arms of Gramarye.
As it was, the strain upon his two arms was frightful--too frightful to last.
Yet to these merry infants-in-arms the art of war is no child's-play.
For these tactics no arms required except those already naturally belonging to the corps.
Roughly seizing him, the two men forced him stiffly upright in the chair, drew his arms about the back of it, and there secured them, wrist to wrist, drawing the knot until Alex almost cried out in pain.
The runner saw the shadow of it, and with a cry that they heard, half turned and threw out hisarms to ward it off.
Through the knot-hole he saw the detective led by, his arms bound behind him, and one of the freight-robbers on either side.
The next moment he dashed blindly into his father's arms at the outer door, and threw the smoking blankets and sizzling, burning relay to the sidewalk.
He saw the detective led by, his arms bound behind him.
Dazed, cold with fear, the boy obeyed, and Iowa, producing a sheaf of hide thongs, proceeded to bind hisarms to his side.
They were enthusiastic students of botany, and came home from their excursions in the woods with their arms loaded with flowers, and often searched out the rarest which could be found in the Walden and Lincoln woods.
He would fall, did not the strongarms of Carl Metz support him.
Get back to Hazleton," Sheriff Marlin cries, at the same time raising his arms above his head and waving them.
She wavers an instant; then stretches out her arms toward her protector.
Athalia could not tear herself from arms that placidly consented to her withdrawal; so there had been no rending ecstasies.
His arms did not close about her,--but his hands clinched slightly.
My pulse is at forty-eight and very weak, and my legs and arms are nearly skin and bone.
Several of their fire-arms were afterwards found loaded with pebbles and such missiles.
I mounted the stump, and called on the people to fall in into divisions according to the arms they had got, and to choose their captains out of the best men among themselves.
The people on the diggings were further incensed at this failure, and many now busied themselves in preparing arms and ammunition, while committees and leagues sat night and day.
Then the ringing sound of axes wielded by brawny arms told of preparations for the evening meal.
Troops were under arms in the gully beneath the camp all the time, waiting in readiness for an outbreak.
Notices were issued stating that if any lights were seen in the neighbourhood after eight o'clock at night, or if any fire-arms were discharged, the offenders would be fired at by the military.
The Government here issued a new lot of arms and ammunition to us.
These arms were the property of the United States Government, and proof that a man had sold a gun meant serious trouble.
There we stood a mile from camp where our arms lay, unable to render these men any assistance in their desperate straits.
While unloading our wagons at the Post, a rumor spread that gave us some uneasiness--a rumor about what might happen to the fellows who traded fire-arms to the Indians at Medicine Lodge.
In a short time there was much trading going on between the soldiers and the Indians, but on the sly, as strict orders had been issued against it, especially the trading of any kind of fire-arms to the Indians.
At first Gordon's sight, blinded by the bright sun, showed him only a convulsive movement in the half-gloom, but as they swung back into the light of the doorway he saw a slim brown girl struggling in the arms of a revueltoso.
Bull heard no more, for he had rolled over, buried his face in his arms to hide from his snuffing nostrils whiffs of spirits.
Her bare arms tapered from fine shoulders to small wrists, and if she followed Juno rather than Psyche in her luxurious molding she was pliant as a willow, carried her shapely poundage with an effect of slimness.
Now it marches for leagues with the yuccas that fling crazed arms and shrunken limbs like posturing dwarfs; again it is dotted with lonely mesas, monolithic masses that raise orange and vermilion facades out of a violet mirage.
When she broke into a second wild frenzy of cursing, arms raised to the sky, he turned and walked away, his face set toward the mountains--and revenge.
Head fallen back so that his face was turned up to the torrid sun; relaxed, limp as a rag, a man hung by his wrists that had been tied at the full stretch of his arms around the sahuaro's barrel.
Then, with the correspondent lying forward in his saddle, arms around his horse's neck, he headed for the town.
Arms reversed, rifle muzzle resting on the ground, he stood with his four companions.
A pair of sinewy arms locked like brown snakes around him, pinioning his armsto his body.
Since the Yankee went back on his "controls," or they on him, a sahuaro cactus had raised its fluted barrel within the excavation, captaining a squad of dwarf yuccas that poked grotesque arms in pathetic entreaty out of the rubble.
In accordance with before-mentioned precedents, Ramon ought to have folded his arms and hissed a threat through gritted teeth.
Here we go an' import this young fellow at no end of trouble an' expense, then you herd him right into the arms of another girl.
I had it from a Yankee machine-gunner in Valles's army that had got himself shot through both arms an' was being taken back to the base hospital with about a hun'red others.
She wound her arms about him as if she would never part from him more, and the people all stood round in the deepest emotion.
The sight of a poor girl in these circumstances fills me with pity, and, for that very reason, I could put my arms about her, take her to my heart, and comfort her.
Christlieb and Felix, as they stretched their armswith indescribable longing towards the beautiful creature.
But suddenly she rose, put both her arms about him, pressed him to her heart, bedewed him with hot tears, kissed his cheeks, his lips.
Everybody who could carryarms took to their weapons or to their oars.
He was seated, in a rather grotesque dress, on a throne ornamented with armsof all sorts; heralds and warriors were standing round him.
Up to this time (1861), the important arms of Cavalry and Artillery had been almost entirely neglected, most of the Cavalry not yet being armed or equipped.
When we saw again the Stars and Stripes we were overpowered with emotion, and fell with streaming eyes upon our knees on the deck, raising our arms to Heaven and offering thanks to God for all his mercies.
Of course," said Hector, "I am not so silly or so wicked as to try to persuade you that my mother will open her arms to you.
There he sighed himself to sleep; and God put His arms about them both, and kept them asleep until the morning.
Annie, for one reverent moment, turned her head aside, then threw her arms about him, and hid her glowing face in his bosom.
Annie opened her arms and took Hector to her bosom.
He threw the chain over the head of one of those nine grenadiers, and crossing his armsjerked it tight about the man's neck, stifling his cry of warning.
Wogan stepped forward and stood within the fan of light, spreading out his arms to show that he came as a supplicant and with no ill intent.
His arms tightened about her waist, hers in spite of herself about his shoulders.
He took her in his arms and raised her to her feet.
There's the truth out, though it's a familiar truth to you ever since I held you in my arms beneath the stars upon the road to Ala.
He opened the door and stretched out his arms into the cupboard.
And indeed it was a different man who now confronted her,--a man different from the dutiful servant who had rescued her, different even from the man who had held her so tenderly in his arms on the road to Ala.
He stood up, leaned over the table, caught the lapels one in each hand as the fellow rushed at him, and lifting the coat up off his shoulders violently jammed it backwards down his arms as though he would strip him of it.
O'Toole set his great legs apart and his arms akimbo.
He touched her hair with his lips, he took her by the arms and would have set her apart; but she clung to him, hiding her face, and the sobs shook her.
The King's man-at-arms dumps him down in the King's chair!
The poet was thus authorised, and even forced, to seek happiness in the arms of some other woman.
The idea was to embroider his family coat of arms on coarse canvas, in colours selected by himself.
I threw myarms around old Mariette's neck, and almost embraced Marquand himself in the delirium of my delight.
I only woke again to life and happiness when I found myself in yourarms on the morning of December 14th in the Customs shed at Brussels.
After the third act she received congratulations even from Mademoiselle Georges, who folded her in her arms and covered her with kisses.
Truly, that the natural legs and armsof this body should be cut off, because they are too weak, and their places supplied by strongest limbs of wood and metal.
Should their country's cause impel them further, they will be acquainted with the hazard, and using those arms which Providence has put into their hands, will make a solemn appeal to "the power above.
Their institutions consist of old errors tissued with hasty inventions, somewhat excusable, as the wills of the Romans, made with arms in their hands.
When the commons of Rome upon a rupture with the Senate, seceded in arms at the Mons sacer, Menemius Agrippa used the like allusion to the human body, in his famous apologue of a quarrel among some of the members.
He had grown very stout, and his arms and legs very heavy.
At this moment Goujet appeared and stood timidly on the threshold with a tall white rosebush in his arms whose flowers brushed against his yellow beard.
Mme Boche snatched Nana in her arms and hid her head that she might not see, and the little old woman opposite, who seemed to have waited for this scene in the drama, quietly closed her windows.
Tiny drops bedewed the waxed forehead of Lorilleux himself, while Mme Lorilleux threw off her sack and stood in bare arms and chemise half slipped off.
While they talked they went from shop to shop, and their arms grew full of small packages, but they hurried back, still talking of the gentleman.
Their mother, lying on their narrow couch, held them both in her arms and said over and over again in a monotonous voice: "If you were not here, my poor darlings!
The sleeves were very wide and displayed her arms to the elbows.
Suddenly he stretched out his arms and seemed to crush some creature on the wall.
Mme Boche rent the air with her exclamations, waving her arms frantically high above her head.
The air seemed to stupefy them, and they loitered along with their arms swinging at their sides, without exchanging a word.
The young woman, with the perspiration standing on her brow and her armsstill dripping, looked her full in the face with earnest, inquiring eyes.
Suddenly he snatched her in his arms and kissed her furiously once and then dropped her and turned abruptly away.
She was sitting on a chair with her arms dropping drearily at her side but not weeping, when Lantier quietly opened the door and walked in.
The child's arms were round her sister Henriette, a baby who had just been weaned.
Even in the far southern towns the infamy of those prison-ships had been told, and with a sudden gesture of compassion the girl stretched her armstoward the opposite house.
Amanda Bryce, and passing the other women, she caught him in her arms and hugged him frantically.
And truly doth he need somewhat to make him brave, seeing he is inarms against his king," Joscelyn retorted, but turned not her head.
Well, you had no man in the war; but against us the enmity is strong, because Eustace actually bore arms in the king's service.
Death were not so hard to meet, if he could but first hold her in his arms and hear her say some tender word.
For a few moments no one spoke or interfered, but after the dame had kissed every square inch of his face, and had felt his head, shoulders, and arms for fractures, Martha Strudwick interposed.
And gathering Betty close in her arms she listened while the letter was read to the sorrowing women.
She felt the sinews in her hands and armsgrow like iron, and her pulses beat with the perfection of rhythm.
