But where the conical explosive bullets of the twentieth century were of no avail, the poisoned arrows of the natives, dipped in the juice of strophanthus and steeped afterwards in decayed carrion, could succeed.

A new competitor may decrease the likeliness of an old hypothesis, but it will usually not change its loveliness.

MacAdams didn't look back to see what they were up to, just ran across the flat roof and grappled down the other side of the building.

Betty and Molly (they were soft-hearted baggages) felt for their master--pitied their poor master!