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A kiss from papa soothed the hardest "boomp" that his many tumbles gave him; but even Peter realized that when papa was at his desk he was very busy indeed, and though any of the children might sit in the room with him, they must not speak unless it was absolutely necessary.
"Because the wind is growing stronger, and blowing hard from behind, driving us fast for the other coast; and even if he could turn we should not get back." "No," said the King. "But this is very horrible, Denis, my lad. Are the horses safe?" "Yes, sir, quite." "Ah! that's right," moaned the King. "Say sir, not Sire, on your life." Boomp! Rush!
But a gun went "boomp!" with that thick, damp sort of sound that smacks of black powder, somewhere down on earth, and a huge "herd" of green plover, alias peewits, which are lapwings, rose, as if blown up by an explosion, to meet them, their thousand wings flickering in the frost-haze like a shower of confetti, and the owl was so disconcerted by the disturbance that he dropped back into the night whence he came, as one who falls into a sea.
The words blurred off in a fog of semiconsciousness and half-thoughts. The sky was falling? Who killed Foxy Loxy? I, said the spider, who sat down insider, I went boomp in the night and the bull jumped over the moon.... "Bull," he croaked. "The bull sleeper!" "Delirious," the first voice muttered. "I mean bull pusher!"
"What's that?" cried the King, in a startled voice, sitting up, but falling back with a groan. "Oh, how my head swims! Can you swim, Denis, boy?" he moaned. "Yes, sir; but no one could swim in a sea like this." Boomp! Crash! Rush! "What's that, boy?" groaned the King again. "Why don't you tell me? Didn't I ask before?"
When I first heard the low, soft, solemn sound I thought it must be made by some strange disturbance in my head or stomach, but as all seemed serene within, I asked David whether he heard anything queer. "Yes," he said, "I hear something saying boomp, boomp, boomp, and I'm wondering at it."
Emilie watched him rub the hurt place in silence. Then he got up on his fat legs and went to the desk, where he stood patiently, his round face very red and solemn, while he waited to gain his father's attention. At last the busy man became conscious of the child's presence, and, turning, looked down into the serious eyes. "I'm here wid a boomp," said Peter.
That Indian must have treated her with terrible cruelty, for when I was riding her through the pasture several years afterward, looking for another horse that we wanted to catch, as we approached the place where she had been captured she stood stock still gazing through the bushes, fearing the Indian might still be hiding there ready to spring; and she was so excited that she trembled, and her heartbeats were so loud that I could hear them distinctly as I sat on her back, boomp, boomp, boomp, like the drumming of a partridge.
Then there are 'things that go boomp in the night, too. It might be worth settling down here " "Not for you," cut in Charity briskly. "Too far from the bright lights for you, my man." "Just for that," he triumphed, "I shall not return this lost property found under a cushion of the couch in the hall." At the sight of that familiar black note-book, Val shifted uneasily on his pillows.
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