Feisul's army of fifty thousand men is as ready as it will ever be.

There is no money in the Damascus treasury, and therefore every moment of delay is now a moment lost.

The time has come for action!'" Our three prisoners were listening to the recitation spellbound, and so were we all for that matter.

The mere memory feat was amazing enough.
Few men could listen in hiding to a stranger's words, and report them exactly after an interval of more than an hour; but Narayan Singh did better than that, for he reproduced the speaker's gesture and inflexion, so that we had a mental picture of the scene that he described.

Mabel offered him stewed tannic acid in the name of tea, and Ticknor suggested a chair, but he waved both offers aside and continued as if the picture before his mind and the words he was remembering might escape him if he took things easy.
"Sahib, they were very much excited when he spoke of action.