Matsuo lifted his rifle, easing the sling under his left upper arm for steadiness.

`` Come out, come out in the meadow '', Matsuo said under his breath.

Matsuo took the small knife from its scabbard and laid it on the ground, out of the marine's reach and away from their shadows.

Remembering his own thirst, Matsuo took out his water bottle.

Early that day Matsuo saw a marine.

The enemy came looming around a bend in the trail and Matsuo took a hasty shot, then fled without knowing the result, ran until breath was a pain in his chest and his legs were rubbery.

Matsuo had faked death and was pitched on a stack of corpses, both the burned and the unburned, the latter decomposing rapidly under the tropical sun.

Matsuo repeatedly choked down his own nausea.

Humiliation made Matsuo tremble.

Taking aim at the man's face, Matsuo squeezed the trigger up to the point of discharge, and then he changed his mind.

Like a mischievous boy expecting punishment, Matsuo awaited reaction from the jungle.

Matsuo puzzled and grew anxious over the complete passiveness, concluding that he was the butt of a devilish joke.

When he got closer to the tree, Matsuo noted the wild look on his face.

The bobbing head was a poor target, so Matsuo shot him in the upper trunk.

In the hush that followed the echoes, Matsuo was tense.

Maintaining his clutch on the hair, Matsuo watched the closed eyes while rummaging in the jacket pockets.

Matsuo put the bottle to his own lips.

Matsuo shook his head.

When he rolled on the left side, propping on his left elbow, Matsuo seized his hair and pulled him back over.

Awkwardly with one hand Matsuo got the cap back on the water bottle.

The sun was noon high and Matsuo perspired until his body was dripping.

Matsuo shook his head.

With a firm grip on the man's hair Matsuo applied the blade flat on a cheek.

Matsuo stood up.

Matsuo walked toward his tree, once glancing back.

The whole thing, from the moment when they jumped heavily off the trucks, spread out and moved into position just behind the cover of that slight rise of ground and then jumped off, took maybe between twenty and thirty minutes.

Actually, he regretted having opened his mouth when the truck came to a stop and the angry driver jumped down from the cab and walked back toward them.

The Pirates jumped off to an 11-3 start by May 1 last year, when the Redbirds as well as the Dodgers held them even over the season.

They then had a mediocre record for six seasons and were ruined by a trade war with the Union Association ( UA ) in 1884, when its three best players ( Fred Dunlap, Jack Glasscock, and Jim McCormick ) jumped to the UA after being offered higher salaries.

One day, when Rasputin was playing with his brother, Dmitri fell into a pond and Rasputin jumped in to save him.

While practicing for the show, stuntwoman Laura " Dinky " Patterson, one of a 16-member professional bungee jumping team, died of massive cranial trauma when she jumped headfirst from the top level of the Superdome and smashed head-first into the concrete-based playing field, causing her death.

Romulus was required to kill Remus when the latter jumped over the wall, breaking its magic spell ( see also under Pons Sublicius ).

Years later, Kuhl would affirm this version of his initial meeting with Patton, recalling that when Patton entered the hospital tent, " all the soldiers jumped to attention except me.

During the robbery, a traffic cop, Hale Keith, was severely wounded when Nelson spotted him, jumped onto a teller's desk, and gunned Keith down through a plate glass window.

* Raoul Walsh was set to direct and star as the Cisco Kid in this film, but had to abandon the project when a jackrabbit jumped through a windshield of a vehicle he was driving and cost Walsh an eye, after which he wore an eyepatch for the remainder of his life.

The Bloukrans River Bridge was the first bridge to be ‘ bungee jumped off ’ in Africa when Face Adrenalin introduced bungee jumping to the African continent in 1990.

April 2008 a 37 year old Durban man, Carl Mosca Dionisio, made bungy jump history when he jumped off of a 30m / 100ft tower attached to a bungy cord made entirely of condoms.

In 1986 Michael Lush died of multiple injuries after bungee jumping for a stunt on a BBC television programme and in 1997, Laura Patterson, one of a 16-member professional bungee jumping team, died of massive cranial trauma when she jumped from the top level of the Louisiana Superdome and collided head-first into the concrete-based playing field.

The Ex Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Late Shri Vasantdada Patil who led the freedom struggle in Western Maharashtra himself jumped into river Krishna from Irwin Bridge when he was chased by the British army.

Unemployment was at 7. 8 % in 1930 when the Smoot – Hawley tariff was passed, but it jumped to 16. 3 % in 1931, 24. 9 % in 1932, and 25. 1 % in 1933.

One day when I came to visit him he jumped up and grabbed this manuscript and said ' I want to give you something, but I don't have anything, so I'm going to give you this manuscript, and someday its gonna be worth a lot of money.

Valjean offered to pay anyone who could raise the wagon but when nobody wanted to risk their life climbing under the wagon and the wagon started settling faster than the jack would get there, he jumped down into the mud and lifted the wagon off Fauchelevent.

Loki sat before a fire, and when he noticed the gods were coming near him, he threw the net into the fire and jumped up and slipped into the river.

In another example, the Gagudju people of Arnhemland, for which Kakadu National Park is named, believe that the sandstone escarpment that dominates the park's landscape was created in the Dreamtime when Ginga ( the crocodile-man ) was badly burned during a ceremony and jumped into the water to save himself.

Camp Polk quickly surpassed the timber industry as the dominant force in the parish's economy, which became evident in the parish seat of Leesville when its population jumped from 3, 500 to 18, 000 after the camp opened.

In July 1990 Tok faced extinction when a lightning-caused forest fire jumped two rivers and the Alaska Highway, putting both residents and buildings in peril.

Likewise, in the tale depicting the origin of the constellation Capricornus, the Greek god of nature Pan became a fish from the waist down when he jumped into the same river after being attacked by Typhon.

The dispute finally boiled over in the summer of 1919 when pitcher Carl Mays jumped the team.