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He also gave a psychological prophetic glimpse of the insidious sealskin sacque. In Seventeen Hundred and Ninety, a ship from the Pacific brought a hundred otterskins to New York. The skins were quickly sold to London buyers at exorbitant prices. The nobility wanted sea-otter, or "Royal American Ermine," as they called it. The scarcity boomed the price.
I don't like it." "Some people collapse altogether when they see it. Perhaps when forewarned you are forearmed." A low rumble boomed up the valley, and the mountain echoes muttered in solemn chorus. "We are to be spared none of the scenic accessories, then?" said Helen. "None. In fact, you will soon see and hear a thunder storm that would have delighted Gustave Doré.
"That is true," said he, "and against a thing that is true I cannot contend; therefore, you are free from me, but from my brethren you are not free." The Thin Woman turned to the second man. "You are Strength?" said she. "I am Strength and Love," he boomed, "and with me there is safety and peace; my days have honour and my nights quietness.
More thoughtful than usual, I walked on, passing some of my old haunts, and was about to turn in front of a feed and grain store when a hearty slap on my back disturbed my reflection. "Howdy thar, cowboy," boomed a big voice. It was Morton, the rancher whom Jim had mentioned, and whose acquaintance I had made. He was a man of great bulk, with a ruddy, merry face. "Hello, Morton.
Was she going to remain in town overnight? It began to look as though she were. Across the street Hodges came out and lighted the big lamps at each side of his doorway. A cowboy swung down from his horse and went in, his spurs winking in the lamplight as though there were jewels upon them. A buckboard pulled up and two other men went in after him. A voice in sudden laughter boomed out.
"I never would have thought of doing it that way," said Charley admiringly. "That's dead easy!" It was dusk when they reached the cabin, and the lynx was growing heavy to Charley's unaccustomed shoulder, and both boys were tired and happy with the day's adventure. "Well, now!" boomed Skipper Zeb in his biggest voice, when the boys appeared at the door. "A lynx! And a fine big un, too!
For a second Vi stared at him; then she laughed, and he laughed with her. "Oh! oh!" she cried, "I believe you're telling the truth!" They sat and talked. Nelton brought in tea; then they sat and talked some more. A distant bell boomed seven o'clock. Vi started, rose slowly to her feet, and stretched.
Then, just as the clock of Cardinal College boomed out the hour, a chorus of sweet, clear voices up high in the air broke into merry song, just as the first early sunbeam struck across the sky, and lighted up the group of singers half hidden behind the low battlements.
With the last word a sullen bell boomed heavily through and through the Temple.. and, at once, . . like a frenzied bird or butterfly winging its way into scorching flame, . . Niphrata rushed forward with swift, unhesitating, dreadful precision straight on the knife outheld by the untrembling ruthless hands of the Priest Zel!
So they dug and dug like everything; and it got awful dark, and the rain started, and the wind swished and swushed along, and the lightning come brisker and brisker, and the thunder boomed; but them people never took no notice of it, they was so full of this business; and one minute you could see everything and every face in that big crowd, and the shovelfuls of dirt sailing up out of the grave, and the next second the dark wiped it all out, and you couldn't see nothing at all.
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