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One said, "It is surely a waterfowl, a duck, or it may be a goose; if we took it to the water it would swim and gabble." But another said, "It has no webs to its feet; it is a barn-door fowl; should you let it loose it will scratch and cackle with the others on the dung-heap." But a third speculated, "Look now at its curved beak; no doubt it is a parrot, and can crack nuts!"
She sought to hear their words, to read the looks on their faces. But she caught only a monotonous mutter, unintelligible but evil, and saw only the bottle passing from one to the other. Brodie finished it and hurled it from him so that it broke noisily. A few times she heard them laugh; she could distinguish Brodie's throaty, bull tone and Benny's nervous cackle.
What answer Madison made he never knew himself he only knew that he was staring at the door after Thornton had gone out, and that he wanted to laugh crazily. Marry Helena! Thornton had asked Helena to marry him because he loved her. God, there was humor here! His brain itself seemed to cackle at it marry Helena!
"Thanks to me, the town of Issoudun now knows what Monsieur Maxence Gilet has been doing at night for the last six years," replied Philippe; "and the cackle, as you call it here, is now started on him. Morally his day is over." The moment Philippe left his uncle's house Flore went to Max's room to tell him every particular of the nephew's bold visit. "What's to be done?" she asked.
The postmaster's sober face hid his jest. Parker surveyed wonderingly the grins curling under the listeners' beards. "Oh, Colonel Gid Ward is comin' across in the mornin' and it's reckoned he'll burn up the ice." A cackle of laughter came from the assemblage. "There's plenty of room on Spinnaker for both of us, I think," Parker replied, quietly.
A tall, imposing figure in scarlet robes stood erect and scowling on the threshold, and behind him his valet, Bernouin, bearing a lighted taper. Mancini's laugh faded into a tremulous cackle, then died out, and with gaping mouth and glassy eyes he sat there staring at his uncle.
There was a sudden answering cackle of delight, and a little brown head was thrust out amid the ivy. "Come down this very moment, you little hard-hearted person, and embrace your old uncle."
It was, of course, impossible for him to regard disrespectful remarks about the German navy as a joke, but he succeeded in giving a kind of hoarse cackle. Smith was conscious of a want of harmony in the party. He became most vigilantly attentive to the two men on whom he waited. Von Moll drank sherry with his soup and two glasses of hock while he ate his fish.
Sometimes his old lantern-jaws would emit an uncanny cackle of a laugh, and a ghastly flicker of humour play across his parchment features; but these only deepened the general sense of solemnity, as the hoot of a night-bird deepens the loneliness of some desolate hollow among the hills. It was this strange old ghost of a man that was to be the next to turn human, and it came about like this.
The boy's smile widened and widened. Then he laughed aloud softly and nodded his head. "I'll send you the papers," he promised. "I'll send you all of them." Old Jerry stood with his outstretched hand poised in midair while he realized that his chance shot had gone home. And suddenly, unaccountably, he began to chuckle; he began to cackle noisily. "I might 'a' knowed it," he whispered.
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