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"And then it was Amphinomus, who drew his whetted sword And fell on, making his onrush 'gainst Odysseus the glorious lord, If perchance he might get him out-doors: but Telemachus him forewent, And a cast of the brazen war-spear from behind him therewith sent Amidmost of his shoulders, that drave through his breast and out, And clattering he fell, and the earth all the breadth of his forehead smote."
It ran down the road, then across an old field and back into the road again, the man pursuing it as hard as he could make his horse go. Finally it ran into Peggy Pig-Eye's yard and under her house, and the man went clattering after it. "'Oh, it's you, is it? she cried. 'And you are after me, are you?
"Humph!" he ejaculated; and Gilian rode on, leaving in the group behind him an uncomfortable feeling that somehow, somewhere, an injustice had been done. Miss Mary's face was at the window whenever his horse's hooves came clattering on the causeway she knew the very clink of the shoes.
The rest of you come on." Scrambling up a rocky hillside, he led on to the divide before him the crest between two steep ravines his men coming pell-mell and panting after, every now and then dislodging a stone and sending it clattering to the depths below.
Before I could fire, instantaneously in fact, I felt a thrill as though a million needles had been thrust into all parts of my body at once paralyzing every muscle and nerve. The gun fell from my nerveless hand, clattering to the floor.
The yard and sail fell clattering down, and then the work of death commenced; there was no parley, no suspense; each man started upon his feet and raised his sword. The voices of Philip and of Krantz alone were heard, and Philip's sword did its work. He was nerved to his revenge, and never could be satiated as long as one remained who had sacrificed his Amine.
On and on we tore, slicing against the sidewalk,curving and jibbing, clattering and careening now going on two wheels and now on four while the lunatic shrieked curses of disappointment at the pedestrians who scuttled away to safety from our charging onslaughts; and I held both hands over my mouth to keep my heart from jumping out into my lap.
Just when it seemed that Sanderson must shoot to make his statement and threat convincing, the man shouted: "This game's too certain for me, I'm through!" He threw his weapons away, so that they went bounding and clattering to the foot of the slope. Then he again faced the fissure, shouting: "I know I've caved, an' you know I've caved. But what about them guys on the other side, there?
His entrance and exit were always to an orchestration of banging doors, directions concerning his meals shouted at the top of his voice as he plunged up or down the stairs, the clattering and rattling of brooms and pails flying before his feet. His departure always left behind it the suggestion that the house was now to let; it came almost as a shock to meet a human being on the landing.
Without further leave-taking she dived down the dark alley at a run, her big boots clattering on the flag-stones. Pennie felt very glad to have met and talked to Kettles at last, and as she and her godmother went on, she made up her mind to write to Nancy that very night and tell her all about it; also to write a long description of the meeting in her diary.
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