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The words were no sooner out of Peter's mouth than a faint bang sounded from way off towards the Big River. Mrs. Quack gave a great start and half lifted her wings as if to fly. But she thought better of it, and then Peter saw that she was trembling all over. "Did you hear that?" she asked in a faint voice. Peter nodded. "That was a gun, a terrible gun, but it was a long way from here," said he.
Tom went calmly on tinkering with the mechanism of his instrument. Bang! sounded up the trail. Tom's fingers didn't falter as he adjusted a small, brass screw. Bang! came the second shot. Tom betrayed no more annoyance than before. Bad Pete was aiming to drive bullets into the ground close to the young engineer's feet, making him skip about.
Ah! he ran and ran till he came bang against the door, and burst it open, and there he was in a joiner's shop. "You're a likely lad," said the joiner; "serve me for a twelvemonths and a day and I will pay you well." So he agreed, and served the carpenter for a year and a day. Jack hitched the table on his back, and away he went with it till he came to the inn.
In the evening he was buried with much state, by the side of his father, in the mausoleum of Lal Bang, at the eastern extremity of the island. It was with great difficulty that, when the British soldiers became aware of the massacre of their countrymen, a few days before, they were restrained from taking vengeance upon his sons and the inmates of the Palace.
A horse, meditating in the shade of one of the hickories, lazily swished his tail. The warm sunshine made an oblong of vivid yellow on the floor of the grocery. "Could you see the whites of their eyes?" said the man, who was seated on a soap box. "Nothing of the kind," replied old Henry warmly. "Just a lot of flitting figures, and I let go at where they 'peared to be the thickest. Bang!" "Mr.
The truth was, that policemen were shooting all dogs found that were without a collar and a license, and every now and then a bang and a howl somewhere would stop Satan in his tracks.
David's mother was sitting with Elizabeth, and they were talking, idly, of Nannie's new house, or Cherry-pie's bad cold, or anything but the one thing that was always on their minds, when, abruptly, Blair entered. He flung open the door with a bang, then stood stock-still on the threshold. He was very pale, but the room was so shadowy that his pallor was not noticed.
I have seen a great many celebrated women at their best moments, but you are lovelier than any. It isn't a simple affair of proportion and features I wish I could hold it in a phrase, the turn of a chisel. I can't. It's deathless romance in a bang cut blackly across heavenly blue." He was silent again, and Linda glad that he still found her attractive.
And now the searchlight revealed two men in the standing-room of the sloop, one of whom, a bearded man, was looking backward over his wake much of the time. “Can one of the marines fire a shot to stop those fellows?” asked Eph Somers. “In the air, do you mean, sir?” asked the midshipman. “Certainly.” “Then I wish he’d do it.” Bang! The discharge of the rifle sounded sharply on the night air.
He felt out the wounds of his neck and face, while his eyes embraced the fact that the white master was in possession of his rifle. "You give 'm musket belong me," he said impudently. "I give 'm you bang alongside head," was Harley's answer. "He doesn't seem to me to be a regular Malaitan," he told Villa. "In the first place, where would he get a rifle like that? Then think of his nerve.
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