Closer and closer to the black
shaft the ship sped.
So, of a sudden, without any warning, he sprang to his feet, and seized upon his bow and fitted it to a
shaft. "Ay," cried he, "and I'll hurry thee anon." And he sent the arrow whistling after Robin.
There was a terrible expression upon his savage face as he fitted a poisoned
shaft to his bow.
"If your young arm could speed a
shaft for half that distance, I'd shoot with you."
It was the only vessel that stood in our way, but at the rate that it was traveling it would come between us and the
shaft in plenty of time to thwart our plans.
My
shaft was drawn back its full length--my eye had centered its sharp point upon the left breast of my adversary; and then he launched his hatchet and I released my arrow.
He tried to pull it out, but one way the flesh resisted the barbed lead, and the other way it resisted the feathered
shaft. Also, it hurt grievously, and I stopped him.
A child of seven years old,'' he said, `` might hit yonder target with a headless
shaft; but,'' added he, walking deliberately to the other end of the lists, and sticking the willow wand upright in the ground,
Search for the precious map was given up for the time being, and the professor and his friends set the natives to work digging
shafts in the ground, as though sinking them down to the level of the buried city.
Before him he saw the straight lines of the
shafts which constantly deceived him into thinking they were on a well-travelled road, and the horse's swaying crupper with his knotted tail blown to one side, and farther ahead the high shaft-bow and the swaying head and neck of the horse with its waving mane.
It had almost burned through when I reached the opening into the
shaft. I lay down on the edge, for the throb of the great pump below made me giddy.
Two of the troykas were the usual household sleighs, the third was the old count's with a trotter from the Orlov stud as
shaft horse, the fourth was Nicholas' own with a short shaggy black
shaft horse.
It was impossible to hush her; and it was deadly necessary to hold her, or she would have flung herself down the
shaft.
What of the
shaft? The
shaft was cut in England: A long
shaft, a strong
shaft, Barbed and trim and true; So we'll drink all together To the gray goose feather And the land where the gray goose flew.
The shaft-horses were tilted against the
shafts by the ruts, but the dexterous driver sitting on the box held the
shaft over the ruts, so that the wheels ran on the smooth part of the road.
