The revolver shots had wounded the octopus, but not fatally, and he might at any moment plunge into the water and seize Jack.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh
A few months after he wrote the words, "The children are well" and "At any rate, I want to go first," he was returning to America with the body of his eldest son, who died suddenly in Holland, and facing bravely the fact that his own vitality had been fatally impaired.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
Upon the vital, the essential point, he is fatally weak.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson