And if it be urged that whoever is armed will act in the same way, whether mercenary or not, I reply that when arms have to be resorted to, either by a prince or a republic, then the prince ought to go in person and perform the duty of a captain; the republic has to send its citizens, and when one is sent who does not turn out satisfactorily, it ought to recall him, and when one is worthy, to hold him by the laws so that he does not leave the command.
His father, Sforza, having been engaged by Queen Johanna[+] of Naples, left her unprotected, so that she was forced to throw herself into the arms of the King of Aragon, in order to save her kingdom.
He knew only the blind desire to destroy, shook Joe in the clinches as a terrier might a rat, strained and struggled for freedom of body and arms, and all the while Joe calmly clutched and held on.
Her bid for the heart of him and the soul of him was finer and more generous than the bid of the Game; yet he dallied with both--held her in his arms, but turned his head to listen to that other and siren call she could not understand.
After them came twenty-seven sumpter horses carrying tent-poles, cloth, spare
arms, spurs, wedges, cooking kettles, horse-shoes, bags of nails and the hundred other things which experience had shown to be needful in a harried and hostile country.
It is true I held the cudgel, but what could I do with it against his four great
arms? Even should I break one of them with my first blow, for I figured that he would attempt to ward off the cudgel, he could reach out and annihilate me with the others before I could recover for a second attack.
"Do you think so?" Martin queried absently, for to him there was only one beautiful woman in the world, and she was beside him, her hand upon his
arm.
"If, my lord, the beams of that sun that thou holdest eclipsed in thine
arms did not dazzle and rob thine eyes of sight thou wouldst have seen by this time that she who kneels at thy feet is, so long as thou wilt have it so, the unhappy and unfortunate Dorothea.
Adam got up, blushing like a small maiden--great strong fellow as he was--and, putting his
arm round Hetty stooped down and gently kissed her lips.
They ended parle, and both addrest for fight Unspeakable; for who, though with the tongue Of Angels, can relate, or to what things Liken on Earth conspicuous, that may lift Human imagination to such highth Of Godlike Power: for likest Gods they seemd, Stood they or mov'd, in stature, motion,
arms Fit to decide the Empire of great Heav'n.
I told him what I had seen; told him in broken sentences, with gasps of pain between them, and very dexterously and swiftly he bound my
arm meanwhile.
But the thought never entered his mind of profiting by this accident; he had seen from the manner in which the
arm was bent, and from the noise it made in bending, that the bone was fractured, and that the patient must be in great pain; and now he thought of nothing else but of administering relief to the sufferer, however little benevolent the man had shown himself during their short interview.
Almost within an
arm's length was a little depression in the earth; it had been filled by a recent rain--a pool of clear water.
Upon waking next morning about daylight, I found Queequeg's
arm thrown over me in the most loving and affectionate manner.
Can I lift my
arm? I lift it, but ask myself: could I have abstained from lifting my
arm at the moment that has already passed?
