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We call grapes "white grapes" which are manifestly pale green. We give to the European, whose complexion is a sort of pink drab, the horrible title of a "white man" a picture more blood-curdling than any spectre in Poe. Now, it is undoubtedly true that if a man asked a waiter in a restaurant for a bottle of yellow wine and some greenish-yellow grapes, the waiter would think him mad.
My companions saw it also, and they broke out with warning exclamations: "Here they come!" "Be ready, boys!" "Give the devils a hot reception!" "Keep the spare muskets handy!" "Take sharp aim and make every shot tell!" Menzies cried hoarsely. "Fire at those nearest your own side. My God, look yonder " His voice was drowned by one blood-curdling screech poured from a hundred throats.
The negro arose in the midst of the audience and delivered himself of a few blood-curdling yells. Instantly the proprietor came out of the place, but caught sight of Thompson, who had drawn a pair of guns and stood ready to kill Wilson. The latter was too quick for him, and quickly disappeared behind the scenery, after his shotgun.
'From lightning and tempest; from plague, pestilence, and famine; from battle and murder, and from sudden death, Good Lord, deliver us! Their grandchildren pray, 'From all churches and chapels, Good Lord, deliver us! And, during the week, they like to see all the blood-curdling horrors of lightning and tempest; of plague, pestilence, and famine; of battle, murder, and of sudden death, enacted before their starting eyes with never a flicker to remind them that the film is only a film.
As was anticipated, the attack was made on the leeward side with a rush, and, with howlings that were blood-curdling, the savage beasts in a pack rushed forward, as though confident of success and an easy victory. The newly fallen trees bothered them but for a moment, as on they rushed.
Another woman reminded me of Mrs. Partington. She told blood-curdling tales of the positive reappearance of departed spirits, and when I said, "Do you really believe all this?" she replied, "Indeed, I do, and yet I'm not an <i>imaginary</i> woman!" Her dog was provoked into a conflict with my setters, and she exclaimed: "Why, I never saw him so completely <i>ennervated</i>."
About these whippings, the "Prophet" tells many a blood-curdling tale. "One day when an old woman was plowing in the field, an overseer came by and reprimanded her for being so slow she gave him some back talk, he took out a long closely woven whip and lashed her severely.
There was some murmuring, at first, because the show contained none of the popular murders and blood-curdling scenes to which the people were accustomed. "No," the sergeant had said firmly, when the omission was suggested to him; "the young ones see quite enough scenes of drunkenness and fighting.
"I scarcely expected to see you again," said he. "Why did you refuse my diamonds and my flowers? Why did you avoid my eyes at dinner? Your coldness is an insult which I shall not brook." Then he raised his voice to that rasping, almost blood-curdling tone which even his hardiest soldiers dreaded: "I will have you know that I mean to conquer you. You SHALL yes, I repeat it, you SHALL love me!
To me it sounded blood-curdling, and a curious sensation ran through me, as if the blood was chilling in my veins.
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