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"So " yawned the Cowardly Lion, awakened by the clatter, "Knight has fallen!" "Prisoners Sir Hokus!" shouted the Chief Poker, lifting the Knight's plume and speaking into the helmet as if he were telephoning.
"Who are they?" inquired the General almost affectionately. "Who are your people?" Agar walked to the tent door and looked out. There was some clatter of swords going on outside, and as commander of this post it was his duty to know all that was passing. He turned, and standing in the doorway, quite filling it with his bulk, he answered: "My father died three years ago.
Once, riding home late at night from a gay visit to one of the neighbouring camps, we had drawn bridle in passing the grounds of the Treasury Building, where the Eleventh Massachusetts regiment was encamped; and slowly walking by, were endeavouring to distinguish forms and sounds through the dim night air forms and sounds so novel in Washington and so suggestive of interests at stake and dangers at hand; when the distinct clatter of a horse's hoofs in full gallop came down the street and passed closed by me.
I flung the pickaxe down with a clatter on the boards, and exclaimed in my haste: "I wish to heaven I'd never bought the island!" But I did not mean that really. Author of "Astronomy with an Opera Glass," "Climbing the Matterhorn," etc.
And the more I believed, the more I wanted to spread the word of Guru's mission... When Sal and I ran out of posters, we crossed over to Third Avenue, met Paul and my brother, and caught the subway to Penn Station. I was tired from the postering. I found the repetitive clatter and vibrations of the train soothing. I found it easy to meditate.
Gooch, standing there in the uncertain light; it was very lonely on that top floor and the rest of the world seemed infinitely far away. Mr. Gooch wavered. He was loyal to his employer, but he was still more loyal to Mr. Gooch. "Well?" said John. There was a clatter on the stairs of one running swiftly, and Pugsy Maloney burst into view.
He got an answer flung over the man's shoulder which seemed willing enough, but was wholly unintelligible in the clang and clatter of a passenger-train which came pulling in from the southward. "Here's the Hill Country express now!" said Birkwall. "You won't change your mind? Well, your Kent Harbor train backs down after this goes out. Don't worry about the piano.
Only Heaven save me from such palpitation the day I become songstress to the Queen! "Mercy! what a roar and boom a deep murmur as of ten hundred million million moths humming away on a still evening in autumn! On a nearer view it is more like a Tower-of-Babel concern, with its click and clatter.
For at times a burst of laughter killed a phrase that was sacred to him, and sometimes the murmur of the voices and the clatter of the waiters would drown him out altogether.
Uncle Andy sat smoking, his eyes withdrawn in a dream. From the other side of the point, quite out of sight, where Bill was washing the dishes after the early camp supper, came a soft clatter of tins. But the homely sound had no power to jar the quiet. The magic of the hour took it, and transmuted it, and made it a note in the chord of the great stillness.
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