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...state appeared as prosecutors, Edward Slay, K. T. McConnico, and William Jennings Bryan, dutiful son of a famed father, come to file a written argument...
...England's St. Georges were gathered to slay a brood of dragons?the invading U. S. Walker Cup team?of eight, and a few free-lancing U. S. golfers?as well as to try to carry the title south of the Tweed from Champion Robert Harris...
...Whom wouldst thou slay? Thy master's friend, perchance? Thy master's wife?" asks Masterson. "Nay," says the servant...
Masterson did not slay either her or him. A knife is clean. She, he told her, was filthy. . . . It was fortunate for Masterson that he did not become a murderer, for a few pages ahead there had been prepared for him another, sweeter woman, in whom at last, as they say in these books, his love-quest was to find harbor...
...particular, the southern part of the Philippine archipelago known as the Department of Mindanao, stretching to Borneo, was in a state of completely uncontrolled savagery. It was inhabited by Moros ? bloodthirsty, polygamous, Mohammedan headhunters ? who lived in inaccessible fever-infected jungles Their pleasure was to raid, burn, slay, crucify, abduct. Their slave-hunts extended ip to Manila, their piracy for hundreds of miles. Spanish Captains-General, after three centuries of futile effort, had long since retired into a policy of bad-tempered neglect. The Moros ran wild...