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You are wanted there, commandant Syd hurried out and found Terry up by the battery he had had in charge, furiously refusing to let the men under Roylance remove the gun Ah, you are there," he cried, savagely, and with his face convulsed with passion.— Syd Belton The Boy who would not go to Sea
He fought savagely, and so did I, for to use an old school-boy term, my monkey was up, and I was ready to keep on till I dropped Blows fell fast enough on both, and then we closed and wrestled and went down Then we were up, and crashing against the bulk-head on one side, then on the other.— Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea
We must go now The captain turned upon him savagely, and the next moment a couple of the men had seized the boys and run them up behind the pile of bales, and then stood on either side, with drawn cutlasses, to act as guards What are we to do, Vince?"— Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days
When she had entered they had at once begun to growl more savagely, and seemed as though they would spring at her.— Winter Adventures of Three Boys
Mr. Clay led the attack upon him openly and almost savagely, arraigning him as a traitor to the principles upon which he had been elected, and pursuing the quarrel so violently, that in September, five months after Tyler's accession, every member of his cabinet resigned except Mr. Webster. He lingered, unwelcome if not distrusted, until July, 1843, for the purpose of conducting the negotiations in regard to the North-eastern boundary, which he brought to a termination by the Ashburton Treaty.— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
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