"Would it not be well, sir, if one of us could see this monster in her real shape at
close quarters? I am willing to run the risk--for I take it there would be no slight risk in the doing.
Who knows, perhaps he only loves that edifice from a distance, and is by no means in love with it at
close quarters; perhaps he only loves building it and does not want to live in it, but will leave it, when completed, for the use of les animaux domestiques--such as the ants, the sheep, and so on.
These spears are not used for throwing but like the Zulu "/bangwan/," or stabbing assegai, are for
close quarters only, when the wound inflicted by them is terrible.
That is to spring to
close quarters with an unseen enemy--the strategy of despair!
He was, besides, of an active disposition, and had a great antipathy to those
close quarters in the castle of Gloucester, for which a justice of peace might possibly give him a billet.
It was the dead silence of our long gaze at such
close quarters that gave the whole horror, huge as it was, its only note of the unnatural.
how dark it was inside, even darker than in the tunnel, and it was really very
close quarters! But there the steadfast little Tin-soldier lay full length, shouldering his gun.
She could not avoid seeing him again, but the outraged Charlie took care that it should not be at very
close quarters. Miss Ada's cushions were henceforth safe from his depredations, and when he met Anne on the street, or in Redmond's halls, his bow was icy in the extreme.
It was pretty
close quarters in that little dugout for three human beings and two practically wild, man-eating dogs; but we had to make the best of it, since I would not listen to Juag's sug-gestion that we kill and eat Raja and Ranee.
Dolokhov, running beside Timokhin, killed a Frenchman at
close quarters and was the first to seize the surrendering French officer by his collar.
The first one dodged Trent's bullet and was upon him, when the boy shot him through the cheek and he went rolling over into the fire, with a death-cry which rang through the camp high above the din of fighting, another behind him Trent shot himself, but the third was upon him before he could draw his revolver and the two rolled over struggling fiercely, at too
close quarters for weapons, yet with the thirst for blood fiercely kindled in both of them.
It was the first time Sheldon had been at
close quarters with an American girl, and he would have wondered if all American girls were like Joan Lackland had he not had wit enough to realize that she was not at all typical.