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Aim low!" There was a moment of breathless silence. "Are you ready, Jim?" whispered Pike. "Yes, all ready, corporal." "All right! One minute now get you a good aim! Draw your bead on him! Wedge your rifle in the rock, if necessary! Got it?" "I think so, corporal." "All right then! Fire!" Bang! bang! rang out almost simultaneously the reports of two rifles. The smoke floated upward.
We got smashed up in the fog." "Oh, my dear! How dreadful! How did it happen?" "Something collided with the car and shot us bang into a motor-bus, and then, almost at the same moment, something else charged into us from behind. So there was a pretty fair mix-up." "Why didn't you tell me before! Was anyone badly hurt? And how did you get home?" Gillian's questions poured out excitedly.
While the little angels down below were pattering about with their wax tapers, keeping the holy fire burning, suddenly the organ stopped, the monk shut his book with a bang, the boys blew out the candles, and I heard them all tumbling down-stairs in a gale of noise and laughter. The beautiful boy I saw no more.
That same night a very different scene was being enacted in Perdue's store. Cards and drinks formed the order of the evening. "Ding, dong. Ding, dong. Ding, dong," sounded out the little bell. "D n that bell!" cried Bill Pritchen, a stranger, bringing his fist down upon the table with a bang. "I wonder you men stand it."
Bang! went the second weapon, and the bullet lodged but a few inches below that sent in by Henry. On went the wounded creature, limping painfully, but still making good time, especially where the snow on the rocks was partly swept away. "Come on after him!" yelled Henry, reloading with all speed. "I don't think he can get away!" He had scarcely spoken when Barringford took aim and let drive.
When we came outside 'e seemed more contented with 'imself, but he shook his 'ead and got miserable as soon as we got to the wharf agin. "'S'pose they both come along at the same time, he ses. 'Wot's to be done? "I shut the gate with a bang and fastened the wicket. Then I turned to 'im with a smile. "'I'm watchman 'ere, I ses, 'and I lets in who I thinks I will.
Almost before I knew it I was in the narrow channel, so close to the right rock that I had to ship that oar, and pull altogether on the left one. As soon as I was through I made a few quick strokes, but the current was too strong for me; and a corner of the stern struck a bang when I was almost clear.
"What's for you, sir?" he demanded in the same great, fierce voice, viewing Barnabas over his spectacles with sharp, bright eyes. "If it's a pair o' Hessians you'll be wanting " "It isn't," said Barnabas, "I " "Or a fine pair o' dancing shoes ?" "No, thank you, I want to " "Or a smart pair o' bang up riding-jacks ?" "No," said Barnabas again, "I came here to see " "You can't 'ave 'em!
Mr Bang slowly put down his glass, and looking with the most imperturbable seriousness the innocent master right in the face, exclaimed: "Ostriches eat iron! Do I believe ostriches eat iron, did you say, Mr Swop? Will you have the great kindness to tell me if this glass of madeira be poison, Mr Swop?
They must have been watching us from the garden with their eyes on the sights of their rifles, for no sooner had we turned our horses' heads than bang, bang, bang, bang phtt, phtt, phtt, phtt! We doubled ourselves on our saddles and our horses stretched along the road, while for perhaps thirty seconds our ears twitched to a hail of bullets that lasted until we were out of range.
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