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“One of them must have gnawed on my ankle some, between the greave and the heel-plate, but he couldn't quite get through.”
“The outlaw twisted round on his heels; but he moved an instant too late, for even as his fingers tightened on the trigger the steel heel-plate descended in the center of his face, and I felt something crunch in under it.”
“I heard no explosion -- one rarely does when watching the result intently -- but there was a red flash from the tilting muzzle, and the heel-plate jarred my shoulder.”
“The connecting string broke, and one of the boots, iron heel-plate downwards, caught him across the bridge of the nose and cut him to the bone.”
“And he kneeled down and begun to unscrew the heel-plate, everybody watching; and when he got that big di'mond out of that boot-heel and held it up and let it flash and blaze and squirt sunlight everwhichaway, it just took everybody's breath; and Jubiter he looked so sick and sorry you never see the like of it.”
“Continuing his search Whitson found the iron heel-plate of a boot, and a small bunch of keys.”
“And he kneeled down and begun to unscrew the heel-plate, everybody watching; and when he got that big di'mond out of that boot-heel and held it up and let it flash and blaze and squirt sunlight everwhichaway, it just took everybody's breath; and”
“Unscrew the heel-plate and bore recesses; insert what you desire, after wrapping it tightly in cloth and plugging it in; then replace the heel-plate.”
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“Continuing his search "Whitson found the iron heel-plate of a boot, and a small bunch of keys.”
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