As he was getting the man's brains washed off his face and clothing, a piece of shell struck Lieutenant Williams, and cut his eye clean out of his head.
But the Dutch had been vanquished by the English; New Amsterdam was now New York; and it was English brains and English money which now controlled the little colony and the untravelled lands which lay beyond it.
Sargeant overhearing this declaration, drew his pistol and threatened to blow out the gunner's brains if he did not return to his post, and this form of persuasion proved effective.
Picking up his own fallen pistol, Fergus blew out the brainsof the soldier, who was struggling to free himself from the girl's weight, and then helped her to her feet.
That was so, sire; but in respect to the one thrown down by the girl, I had but to blow out his brains before he could gain his feet.
Savarin and that rising young man Gustave Rameau, that the publishers bid high for her brains considerable.
The wines of Italy, heady, irritable, ruinous to the digestion, contribute to the character which belongs to active brains and disordered livers.
Alain racked his brains and began, "They tell me the last season was more than usually gay; of that I cannot judge, for it was well-nigh over when I came to Paris for the first time.
De Mauleon, with heat; "ever doubt that I would rather have blown out my brains than allowed them even to conceive the idea of a crime so base?
And you feel quite sure that we shall double our money when the street is completed--I should not like to have my brains in my heels.
You mean I can be a singer because I haven't brains enough to be a pianist.
One night he played hide-and-seek with a switch engine and got his sodden brains knocked out.
Along the one track dozens of fast and slow trains dash in both directions, kept from collision only by the brains in the dispatcher's office.
Here you have a mediocre lawyer with no brains and no practice, trying to get a look-in on something.
It mattered little now whether Seymour blew his brains out, so long as Charles Dickens blew his brains in.
Some of the old links were indeed severed by accident or extraneous trouble; Seymour, for whose sake the whole had perhaps been planned, blew his brains out before he had drawn ten pictures.
Liza, too, had foreseen the separation into couples after dinner, and had been racking her brains to find a means of getting out of it.
The world will soon know whose was the money and whose were the brains that fostered it, and from what part of the world the principal impetus came.
In the undergrowth of his mind was the thought: "How dare this man whose brains belong to me be the organizing secretary of something that I don't know anything about and don't want to know anything about?
Edward Henry demanded, with an employer's instinctive assumption that souls as well as brains can be bought for such sums as three pounds a week.
I must send my brains about and make a discovery or two for myself.
Three days and three nights Reb Binyomin split his head and puzzled his brains over these questions, till the Almighty had pity on his small skull and feeble intelligence, and sent him a happy thought.
Bright red rivers flowed before his eyes, and they made his brains ache.
All their brains could master at one time, without the aid of some uprooting shock, was that henceforth they were to get double pay and half labour.
Even little men with their cunning little brainscould get the better of them.
Nature seems to have experimented with brains and nerve ganglia, as she has with so many other things.
It's Herb's way of trying, using his brains in his own style on what's nearest to his reach.
Mother's brains began to get hurt and kicked around when she was small, I think--but not by the genes.
Some kinds of love remain young, so long as the body can support our curious brains where love is born.
I underestimated the brains in the son of a bitch--no, hardly even that, for a cub lawyer should have seen it coming, the obvious countercharge by innuendo.
Her nephew's words and the bitterness of his tone seemed fraught with hidden meaning, and she racked her brains to find a topic that would lessen the tension that seemed to have fallen on the room.
Or I shouldn't be in it, I don't use my brains on small things, you know.
If that inkpot of yours had hit me it would pretty well have knocked my brains out, and if I hadn't hit my elbow against the corner of the packing-case I would have had you shot through with holes like a sieve by now.
Seizing a club from one of the savages who had fallen, he dashed out the brains of the three who remained, killing each instantaneously with a single blow of the weapon, and leaving us completely masters of the field.
Hence the philosopher must say, like Christ, "Judge not," and the final distinction between the philosophic brains and the others would be that the former wish to be just and the latter wish to be judges.
Philosophic brains will accordingly be distinguished from others by their disbelief in the metaphysical significance of morality.
One should never read anything written by those arrogant wiseacres and puzzle-brains who have the detestable vice of logical paradox.
But to gain your ends by treachery and deceit, to rob a man of his brains and heart, laughing the while in your sleeve; to break his life and make him curse all women, from Eve to you and the mother who bore him!
One can not take out a man's brains and say, `Here is proof!
Then it is covered with a mixture of the brains and pure water, and soaked, and it is rubbed and worked with both hands until the brains have been rubbed in and until the skin is rubbed dry and soft.
The hide was dry, too, and ready for working over with brains and water, and for smoking.
What you "stuff 'em with" is of small consequence provided you use brains in the job.
Heads of fish like bass and pike are prepared by cutting off just back of the gills and cleaning from the back all brains and flesh.
