"Clubbing" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... extraordinary burst of cheering and shouts in English and Spanish assailed their wondering ears. The sounds seemed to come from the sea, from some point very near to the ship. A loud hubbub arose among the Indians; Courtenay, clubbing his gun, rushed past, with the dog at his heels, and ran up the bridge companion. They could follow his progress as he raced towards the port side, and ...
— The Captain of the Kansas • Louis Tracy
... prisoners. Resting their muskets against a tree they proceeded to fill their canteens. At this moment Jasper gave the signal to his comrade. In an instant the muskets were in their hands. In another, they had shot down the two soldiers upon duty; then clubbing their weapons, they rushed out upon the astonished enemy, and felling their first opponents each at a blow, they succeeded in obtaining possession of the loaded muskets. This decided the conflict, which ...
— The Life of Francis Marion • William Gilmore Simms
... sprang over the defence-works and ran to the rescue, clubbing his rifle as he went and ...
— Blue Lights - Hot Work in the Soudan • R.M. Ballantyne
... shouted, clubbing his gun, and swinging it around his head. "Follow me, and I'll show you how we used to clean out ...
— Frank Among The Rancheros • Harry Castlemon
... aren't running out and clubbing the police. Tell her she'll have to think things over and express herself with a little ...
— Plays • Susan Glaspell
... special hurry," his mother answered. "But what did you want to do? Play another game of ball and break another window?" and she smiled at Bunny, for she had heard the story. Mr. Morrison's window had been paid for by all the boys "chipping in," or clubbing together. ...
— Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Keeping Store • Laura Lee Hope
... point of arousing Harry, who was to keep the second watch, when I was startled by the most fearful shrieks bursting from every side around the camp. The next instant the whole space was filled with warriors, who leaped down into the midst of the sleeping hunters, clubbing some, piercing others with their lances, and throwing cords round the arms of others. There was no necessity to rouse up my companions, for they ...
— The Two Supercargoes - Adventures in Savage Africa • W.H.G. Kingston
... encumbered, and the agent who has had complete control of it forced the tenants, by his hard and fast refusal of a reasonable reduction more than two years ago, into an initial combination to defend themselves by "clubbing" their rents. That was before Mr. Dillon announced the Plan of ...
— Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888) • William Henry Hurlbert
... anonymous-advertisement and secretly sent it to The Times, clubbing their pocket-money together to pay for it. ...
— Christopher and Columbus • Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
... Again clubbing his musket, he leaped into the gangway so ferociously that the pirates scrambled over the side, brown men and white, preferring to take their chances in the sea. As he charged on, I lost sight of him in the maelstrom of struggling figures. On my left a Lascar was fighting for his ...
— The Mutineers • Charles Boardman Hawes
... trigger, but the gun missed fire; then swiftly clubbing the weapon he brought it with terrific force against the clergyman's chest and knocked him off the horse. The orderly at once turned, and fled ...
— Ridan The Devil And Other Stories - 1899 • Louis Becke
... THE INDEPENDENT'S Clubbing List will be sent free to any person asking for it. Any one wishing to subscribe for one or more papers or magazines, in connection with THE INDEPENDENT, can save money by ordering ...
— The American Missionary—Volume 39, No. 02, February, 1885 • Various
... clear about myself, convinces her that I am not only a philosopher, but a profound one. Ah! to a man of profound observation, how many better ways of securing the respect of the female sex there are than the primitive one of clubbing them. ...
— Observations of a Retired Veteran • Henry C. Tinsley
... slipped into a drowse between sleeping and waking. It was—where was it? In the shadow realms of wonderful dream consciousness, his face, the face in "the Happy Warrior"; but not her face: instead was the evil fellow seen that night in the storm on the Rim Rocks clubbing his gun at Fordie's pinto pony through the mists; only he wasn't clubbing it at Fordie; he was aiming at Wayland; and there was the white horse. She wakened herself with her cry. That happened to be the night Wayland had ...
— The Freebooters of the Wilderness • Agnes C. Laut
... by sequestrating the bulls, surrounding them, and clubbing them at a certain point of the forehead. It was surprising to see how hard they fought, and how quickly they succumbed to a blow properly directed. Then we stripped the mask with its bristle of long whiskers, took the gall, and dragged the carcass into the surf where it was devoured ...
— The Mystery • Stewart Edward White and Samuel Hopkins Adams
... a number of persons clubbing together and helping each other with their money and brains, and working together to produce an article at the least possible cost, is of ...
— The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 18, March 11, 1897 - A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls • Various
... on the above premiums will, in all cases, be prepaid by the Publishers, thus delivering to each person the books he is entitled to, free of charge. The terms are extremely liberal, and offer inducements for Clubbing never before offered by any publishing ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various
... from afar I was horrified to see them clubbing the fish with my beautiful thin-bladed maple paddles. They returned with a boat load of 3- and 4-pound Suckers (Catostomus) and 2 paddles broken. Each of their friends came and received one or two fine fish, for there were plenty. I, presumably ...
— The Arctic Prairies • Ernest Thompson Seton
... Two of the gentlemen being skilled travellers, they had presently secured a very tolerable apartment; not in the best situation, indeed, but so neither was it of the most expensive sort; and clubbing their resources, were arranged comfortably enough to feel quite at home. And immediately Dolly began to use her advantage and see Rome. Mrs. Copley had no curiosity to see anything; all her wish was to sit at her window or by her fire and talk to her husband; and as Mr. Copley shared ...
— The End of a Coil • Susan Warner
... was the figure so high, but the circulation itself was absolutely free from "water." The public could not obtain the magazine through what are known as clubbing-rates, since no subscriber was permitted to include any other magazine with it; years ago it had abandoned the practice of offering premiums or consideration of any kind to induce subscriptions; and the newsdealers ...
— The Americanization of Edward Bok - The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After • Edward William Bok
... them Loll dropped to his hands and knees and, club in hand, crept cautiously down under the low-growing bushes. Inch by inch he drew nearer to the birds. . . . Then, with a swift movement he was in the midst of wildly flapping wings, clubbing fiercely ...
— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby
... And which having lately himself decompounded, Just to see what 'twas made of, he actually found it Composed of all possible cookable things That e'er tript upon trotters or soared upon wings— All products of earth, both gramineous, herbaceous, Hordeaceous, fabaceous and eke farinaceous, All clubbing their quotas, to glut the oesophagus Of this ever greedy and grasping Tithophagus.[2] "Admire," exclaimed Tomkins. "the kind dispensation "By Providence shed on this much-favored nation, "In sweeping so ravenous a race from the earth, ...
— The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore • Thomas Moore et al |
