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At the same instant there was a shouting of "Heh! heh! heh!" from behind, and somebody roared, "Let the guns get through!"
At the same instant the assembly was blown in our village, and we rushed for our arms and fell in.
An instant later the noise had died away, and the two armies stood facing each other in absolute deadly silence--a sight which often comes back to me in my dreams.
There was an instant of gleaming breastplates, waving swords, tossing manes, fierce red nostrils opening and shutting, and hoofs pawing the air before us; and then down came the line of muskets, and our bullets smacked up against their armour like the clatter of a hailstorm upon a window.
Then they broke through a hedge, and coming on a regiment of Hanoverians who were in line, they treated them as they would have treated us if we had not been so quick, and cut them to pieces in an instant.
Then the guns found us out again, and we tried to open out into line; but in an instant the horsemen--lancers they were this time--were upon us from over the brae.
It was all done in an instant, and the Frenchman cantering his horse up the brae, showing his teeth at us over his shoulder like a snarling dog.
His cannon could do us no great hurt now, for we were on our faces, and in an instant we could turn into a huddle of bayonets if his horse came down again.
At the same instant up there rode an aide-de-camp, with the reddest face that ever I saw upon mortal man.
Two French bayonets had passed through his chest, and he had died in an instant, and without pain, if one could believe the smile upon his lips.
For an instant her eyes rested on his neck, a neck that was thick and short, fat and powerful.
For an instant he had been observing the two banks of the river with uneasiness.
But they had not doubted the veracity of Laurent for an instant.
At one moment she sought for the means of marrying her sweetheart at that very instant, at another she had an idea of running away never to see him again.
For an instant, Laurent had the idea of not marrying at all, of jilting Therese.
At the moment when her niece, pale and unsteady in gait, as usual, was about to retire to rest, the old mercer detained her an instant.
For an instant he remained bewildered.
For an instant they maintained silence, coiled up like balls, cowering on their chairs.
For an instant he kept, he crushed, this head of a woman against his skin.
I can read it very well indeed," resumed Olivier after an instant, and with his eyes on the married pair.
She suffered horribly from these long monologues which she was compelled to listen to at every instant, and which always brought the murder of Camille before her eyes.
Presently his wife showed herself for an instant at an open window on the second floor, and he fancied he perceived the hands of the pale young man encircling her waist.
The fate of Madame Raquin did not trouble them an instant.
Never had they for an instant suspected the drama that was being performed in this house, so peaceful and harmonious when they entered it.
When they got upstairs on this particular occasion, they sat down an instant with pale lips, and eyes gazing vaguely before them.
It is true that, in order to see if it was strong and fit to stand a cut, he drew his sword and gave it a couple of slashes, the first of which undid in an instant what had taken him a week to do.
For in those plains and deserts where they engaged in combat and came out wounded, it was not always that there was some one to cure them, unless indeed they had for a friend some sage magician to succour them at once by fetching through the air upon a cloud some damsel or dwarf with a vial of water of such virtue that by tasting one drop of it they were cured of their hurts and wounds in an instant and left as sound as if they had not received any damage whatever.
He had not gone far, when out of a thicket on his right there seemed to come feeble cries as of some one in distress, and the instant he heard them he exclaimed,"Thanks be to heaven for the favour it accords me, that it so soon offers me an opportunity of fulfilling the obligation I have undertaken, and gathering the fruit of my ambition.
CHAPTER VIIOF THE SECOND SALLY OF OUR WORTHY KNIGHT DON QUIXOTE OF LA MANCHAAt this instant Don Quixote began shouting out, "Here, here, valiant knights!
At that instant the friars muleteers came up and asked what he was stripping him for.
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