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'Oh, Jupiter, I said, 'if thou art indeed my father, and art not ashamed of thy offspring, give me back my people, or take me also away! At these words a clap of thunder was heard. 'I accept the omen, I cried; 'oh, may it be a sign of a favorable disposition towards me! By chance there grew by the place where I stood an oak with wide-spreading branches, sacred to Jupiter.
When it had gone about a fifth of a mile from the vessel the kedge was dropped, and a signal was given by hauling on the rope. "Clap on, men!" cried Captain Barker. "Get a good purchase, and none of your singsong; avast all jabber." The crew manned the windlass and began with a will to haul on the cable in dead silence. The vessel was slowly warped ahead.
We hardly know a sound which is further removed from pleasant harmony than their yells. The sudden burst of the long-protracted scream, succeeding immediately to the opening note, is scarcely less impressive than the roll of the thunder clap after a flash of lightning.
Ah, how I wanted to stir this public, to make them enthusiastic.... But I could see only too well that they did not consider me a marvel. Capi was more successful. He received several encores. Thanks to Capi, the entertainment ended in a burst of applause. Not only did they clap their hands, but they stamped their feet. The decisive moment had arrived.
Another hour went by, two more canticles had just been sung, and the stations of Toury and Les Aubrais had been left behind, when, at Beaugency, they at last ceased their chat, on hearing Sister Hyacinthe clap her hands and intonate in her fresh, sonorous voice: "Parce, Domine, parce populo tuo."
Only Vaekehu's mittens were of dye, not of silk; and they had been paid for, not in money, but the cooked flesh of men. It came in my mind with a clap, what she could think of it herself, and whether at heart, perhaps, she might not regret and aspire after the barbarous and stirring past.
"Hearties all," quoth he, "the moon sinketh apace and 'twill be ill shooting for 'em in the dark, so with dark 'tis us for the boats muffled oars we clap 'em aboard by the forechains larboard and starboard, and the ship is ours, bullies ours!" "Well and good, Cap'n!" piped Smiling Sam. "But how if she slip her cable and stand from us " "And how shall she, my fool lad, and the wind dropped?
Clap a pepperpot helmet on Jaffery, give him a skin-tight suit of chain mail, moulding all his swelling muscles, consider his red sweeping moustache, his red beard, his intense blue eyes staring out of a red face; dress Liosha in flaming maize and purple, leaving a breast free, and twist a gold torque through her hair, dark like the bronze-black shadows under autumn bracken; strip naked-fair the five nesting bits of humanity it was an unpresented scene from Lohengrin or the Götterdämmerung.
We young ones have a perfect right to take toys, and make them into philosophy, inasmuch as now-a-days we are turning philosophy into toys. Here is a sucker, only it is made of india-rubber: if I clap it upon the table, you see at once it holds. Why does it hold?
Both boys were flushed with excitement, and paid no heed to the grim smile upon their companion's face a smile which expanded into a grin as the line came in without the slightest resistance, and the lads looked at each other with blank dismay. "Clap the line in the basket, Mester Dick," said Dave; "he's took the bait and gone." "Why, what a big one he must have been!" cried Tom.