But apparently the bullet had missed a vital spot, for the beast struggled to its feet, dragging itself toward Calumet, its fangs slashing impotently.
He leaped, slashing like a wildcat, felt his sword cut deep into the scales that sheathed the mighty snout--and then a terrific impact knocked him rolling and tumbling for fifty feet with all the wind and half the life battered out of him.
Conan, towering above the field, strode through the welter smiting right and left, but Valeria moved like an illusive phantom, constantly shifting, and thrusting and slashing as she shifted.
Now I began to reflect that they would equally be slashing away at me; and I remembered my own pathetic letter, and what I fancied Jonathan Johnson's anticipations of evil.
We continued cutting andslashing away so furiously, that the Frenchmen no longer attempted to contend against us.
The whole side bristled with boarding-pikes, and as we attempted to climb up, muskets and pistols were discharged in our faces, and tomahawks and sabres cameslashing down on our heads.
Then on we went, firing our pistols and slashingright and left.
While we were rapidly pulling on I could not think, and I felt a powerful longing to be slashing away at the enemy.
Close on the sword-brothers came the Frankish horsemen, hewing and slashing with sword and double-bladed axe.
He came up, closed, and fell to slashing down those who, having inferior horses, could not flee quickly.
What a slashing stockman he would have made in new country, if he only could have kept straight.
He might have looked higher, but Bella would make any man she took to a slashing good wife, and so she did him.
We owe thee much, Starlight; many a slashing leader, many a spicy paragraph, many a stately reflection on contemporary morals hast thou furnished us with.
He was in and out, slashing and ripping Gorton's face to shreds.
Hanlon threw himself into the melee, but while ostensibly trying to drag the dog away, delayed the few seconds it took for those slashing fangs to rip out Rellos' throat.
I was crossing to the corner of the room, there, when it screamed and bulleted over, slashing my hand when I threw it up to protect my face.
We soon came to the slashing which I had made in August to prevent the enemy's easy approach to the river near the post.
He dived under the rearing forelegs, slashing one of them to the bone as he sped.
On the same moment Buff stoppedslashing and let his bulldog ancestry take control.
His fault as a batsman is, that he will be a slashing hitter.
For one night, as he was riding home from Fallow field, and just entering the gates of the town, a mounted trooper spurred furiously past, and slashing out at him, gashed his thigh.
He was, in fact, a slashing reviewer in verse, and there has rarely been so effective a practitioner of the craft.
It seemed but half a minute before Jim Douglas found himself among the guns slashing at a dazed artilleryman who had a port-fire in his hand.
As agile as monkeys, the mob of pirates poured over the bulwark, slashing through the hammock nettings, and swept forward in a compact mass, driving Captain Wellsby's seamen before them and penning them in the forecastle.
Up aloft the pirate seamen were slashing the torn canvas with their dirks and casting loose the gaskets.
But he was slashing away with his knife in a frenzy of despair, and, apparently, was doing some execution, for every time he struck the wolf let out a little whine of angry pain.
I dropped the belaying-pin, and, slashing the shoe strings of the Captain's boots, jumped out of them and overboard after the drowning Finn.
While slashing with the knife, he cut the belt that held up my overalls.
A difficult thing to avoid, no doubt, for nothing is so easy to achieve as that insolent and vulgar slashing which the half-educated amateur thinks so clever.
Their pet abhorrence was the cheap smartness of Jeffrey and certain of his coadjutors; and from its commencement the 'Athenaeum' has striven to avoid slashing and smart writing.
This is nevertheless a really fine one, running down a narrow gorge between two ranges of hills, with a fine, slashing second shot with the brassey, albeit more or less a blind one.
With a gutty ball it was really a fine long, slashing carry, and to play short was sometimes the better part of valour.
The sixteenth is another fine slashing hole, where we have to make a momentous decision, whether to try heroically for a four or ingloriously for a five.
Rain was slashing down now, beating a tattoo on the steel helmets of a body of French soldiers who stood shivering by the ruined walls while trench-mortars were making a tumult in the neighborhood.
There was the devil to pay, and I heard it being played to the tune of the French soixante-quinzes, slashing over the trees.
Under this protection Quills thrust his nose and head, clear to the shoulders, leaving only his armed back and fiercely-slashing tail exposed to the assault.
By way of precaution, however, he turned round before entering and backed in, slashing vigorously with his armed tail as he did so.
It was stuck full, at that one slashing blow, with beautiful, polished, black-tipped white quills.
His rush from cover was straight and low, and swift as a dart; and his jaws caught the eagle a slashing cut on the upper leg.
The turn the conversation took, especially the slashing onslaught of Number Seven on the writers of verse, set me thinking and talking about the matter.
Do they really think those little thin legs can do anything in such a slashing sweepstakes as is coming off in these next forty years?
Illustration: "Slashing at the wolves which swarmed about him.
