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Two-thirds, indeed we might say three-fourths of his party, were convulsed with suppressed laughter, nor could they prevent an occasional cackle from being heard, when forcibly drawing in their breath, in an effort not to offend their leader.
"You mean everybody has heard it sung. I know neither the music nor the words, and I cannot sing incorrectly even for you." "Oh, you can master the airs in a day, and the cackle in half an hour." "I am not so expeditious. If you are serious, get me the book oh! he calls the poet's words the cackle and the music of the part directly, and borrow me the score." "Borrow you the score!
Old Parlay groaned, moved one arm impotently, and opened his eyes. In them was the light of recognition. "My brave gentlemen," he whispered haltingly. "Don't forget... the auction... at ten o'clock... in hell." His eyes dropped shut and the lower jaw threatened to drop, but he mastered the qualms of dissolution long enough to omit one final, loud, derisive cackle.
Grizzie for awhile managed to keep alive a few fowls that picked about everywhere, finally making of them broth for her invalid, and persuading the laird to eat the little that was not boiled away, till at length there was neither cackle nor crow about the place, so that to Cosmo it seemed dying out into absolute silence after which would come the decay and the crumbling, until the castle stood like the great hollow mammoth-tooth he had looked down upon in his dream.
But before he was thirty, his laugh had become a cackle, and Colonel Martin Culpepper, who would saunter along when Barclay would limp by on Main Street, would call out after him, "Slow down, Johnnie, slow down, boy, or you'll bust a biler."
There is still the kitchen and pantry we could use very large pantry make an excellent private editorial office." "I beg pardon, Madam, what did you say?" He had forgotten his socks. His eyes protruded. She laughed it was the triumph of mind over matter that laugh, an old woman's cackle, he being the matter. He did not like it.
"Whom have we here, Fra Clemente?" said one presently, and sent my heart into my throat. But the Capuchin sniggered and touched his nose with his finger; there was an air of low cunning about him very unpleasant to observe. "This, Sor Giacomo," says he with a cackle, "is a little surprise for the Grand Duke a specimen, a rarity, a pretty thing.
As for your slaving all day, you ought to come to the works for a week; you'd know what slavery was then." Mrs. Jobling permitted herself a thin, derisive cackle, drowned hurriedly in a clatter of tea-cups as her husband turned and looked angrily up the little passage. "Nag! nag! nag!" said Mr. Jobling. He paused expectantly. "Nag! nag! nag! from morning till night," he resumed.
The hens clucked, flapped their wings, hopped, raised a deafening cackle; the house-serfs ran, tripping up and tumbling over; their master shouted from the balcony like one possessed: 'Catch 'em, catch 'em, catch 'em, catch 'em, catch 'em, catch 'em, catch 'em!
Therese, while ringing at the door, saw in the limited perspective of the houses a pulley at a window and a gilt key, the sign of a locksmith. Her eyes were full of this picture, which was new to her. Pigeons flew above her head; she heard chickens cackle. A servant with a military look opened the door.
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