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I did not think to watch her, she did not even glance toward the window! Could I know what she meditated?" "What is it?" Willa seized the woman's arm and shook it convulsively. "What has happened to Señora Reyes? Tell me!" All at once a frail, crooked little form catapulted itself down the stairway and fell, sobbing, at the girl's feet. "Señorita! Señorita Billie! The grandmama has vanished!
Before Craig could reply a cab drew up with a rush at the curb and two men, half fighting, half cursing, catapulted themselves into the shop. They were Winters and Moulton. Without a word, taking advantage of the first shock of surprise, Kennedy had clapped a piece of chemical paper on the foreheads of Mrs. Moulton, then of Moulton, and on Muller's.
Like a flash she catapulted through the air; there was the gleam of white fangs and when the jaws crunched together they closed upon the neck of the unfortunate deer, crushing the vertebra. A second swift lunge below the shoulder and the long teeth had penetrated the heart. The deer, with a startled gasp staggered forward a step and dropped.
I'll have you in control before we reach the curve. Burn, curse you, burn!" With a shriek of metal scraping metal, the head of the Juggernaut ahead took the curve, clung there an instant, and was catapulted out into space. Logs weighing twenty tons were flung about like kindling; one instant, Bryce could see them in the air; the next they had disappeared down the hillside.
A huge, foam-crested billow came sweeping straight from the invisible shores of Albion, burst in magnificent deluge upon the port bow, lifted high in air one instant the heaving black mass of the stem, then let it down with stomach-stirring swish deep into the hollow beyond, deep, deep into the green mountain that followed, careening the laboring steamer far over to starboard, and shooting Miss Allison, as plump and pleasing a projectile as was ever catapulted, straight from the brass-bound door-way, across the slippery deck and into the stranger's welcoming arms.
I always rode Indian fashion without stirrups of any kind, so of course I was catapulted neatly over her head. "Hello. Otto," I said, remaining seated in the road and catching at Floss' bridle rein, "what have you found?" Otto was sifting the loose dirt in the hole through eager fingers. "Hello! I've found some money here in the ground. I wonder oh, yes, I've heard my mother tell about it!
On the heels of the second report came that sickening crack once more, and the face of the man that glared through the smoke at Hiram went red with a smear of blood. He sank to his knees, and Hiram spun about just in time to aim another crashing blow at the skull of the man whom he had catapulted into the tree.
Scarcely was I poised to strike, when the speeding prow ripped into us, and I was catapulted into the black water. There was the echo of an oath, a harsh, cruel laugh, the crash of planking, a strange, half-human cry of fright from the negro that was all.
In the midst of all this excitement, the door of the house was flung open and two young ladies catapulted themselves through the crowd to where Thure and Bud sat on their horses. "Mercy!
And then there came a terrific crash. The aeroplane settled down by the stern, and rose by the bow, so to speak. Then the process was reversed, and Tom felt himself being catapulted out of his seat. Only his safety strap held him in place. The same thing happened to Dick Martin.
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