Passepartout might have cudgelled his brain for a century without
hitting upon the real object which the detective had in view.
Very likely that's why the cylinders have stopped for a bit, for fear of
hitting those who are here.
As to the astute Aramis, he did not entertain much dread of him; and supposing he should be able to get so far, he determined to dispatch him in good style or at least, by
hitting him in the face, as Caesar recommended his soldiers do to those of Pompey, to damage forever the beauty of which he was so proud.
He got more and more furious as he heard me, so he tore the top from off a high mountain, and flung it just in front of my ship so that it was within a little of
hitting the end of the rudder.
By
hitting you a rap with this pine tree here," shouted Antaeus, scowling so that he made himself the ugliest monster in Africa.
When they were close up to one another, Phegeus took aim first, but his spear went over Diomed's left shoulder without
hitting him.
Say, Mac," cried Harvey, cheerfully, "how are we
hitting it?
He is here,' said Kim,
hitting a bad-tempered camel on the nose.
But all that is gone in a few weeks, and the wild winter locks down again on the land; while at sea the ice tears up and down the offing, jamming and ramming, and splitting and
hitting, and pounding and grounding, till it all freezes together, ten feet thick, from the land outward to deep water.
Upon this I made an effort to get up, in order to put my threat into execution; but the ruffian just reached across the table very deliberately, and
hitting me a tap on the forehead with the neck of one of the long bottles, knocked me back into the arm-chair from which I had half arisen.
He slipped Tom, he side-stepped Tom, he jabbed Tom; he did everything to Tom that a trained boxer can do to a reckless novice, except knock the fight out of him, until presently, through the sheer labour of
hitting, he, too, grew weary.
I had not dared pull my speed lever to the highest for fear of overrunning the mouth of the shaft that passed from Omean's dome to the world above, but even so we were
hitting a clip that I doubt has ever been equalled on the windless sea.
