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And every soul about the hotel down to the pigeons in the courtyard made friends with Jemmy and the Major, and went lumbering away with them on all sorts of expeditions in all sorts of vehicles drawn by rampagious cart-horses, with heads and without, mud for paint and ropes for harness, and every new friend dressed in blue like a butcher, and every new horse standing on his hind legs wanting to devour and consume every other horse, and every man that had a whip to crack crack-crack- crack-crack-cracking it as if it was a schoolboy with his first.
Again his sharp yell broke the silence and the horse dashed forward as though shot from a gun. Down the road they went until within a rod of the first bottle; then there was a flash in the sunlight, and to the clatter of the horse's hoofs came the crack-crack of the revolver. Two bottles shivered to fragments, but four remained intact, and the boy rode back, muttering and disappointed.
At the same instant the screech of shot sounded overhead, we heard the sharp crack-crack of wood rending and splitting, as with a great broadaxe, and a medley of blocks and ropes rattled to the deck with the 'thud of the falling bodies.
He stepped up beside the ticked dog, halted, took one more step beyond whir-r-r! and the startled air was filled with wings; and crack! crack! crack-crack! spoke the smokeless powder. Two quail stopped in mid-air and pitched downward. "O Lord!" said Hamil, "they're not my birds. Shiela, how could you do such a thing under my very nose and in sight of your relatives and three unfeeling guides!"
At the same instant the screech of shot sounded overhead, we heard the sharp crack-crack of wood rending and splitting, as with a great broadaxe, and a medley of blocks and ropes rattled to the deck with the 'thud of the falling bodies.
At the same instant the screech of shot sounded overhead, we heard the sharp crack-crack of wood rending and splitting, as with a great broadaxe, and a medley of blocks and ropes rattled to the deck with the 'thud of the falling bodies.
He saw at once that there would be no imposing on the young Americano. The two harangued for a while, on general principles. Twice words rose so high that Merrihew thought they were about to come to blows. Tomass' shook his fingers under Hillard's nose and Hillard returned the compliment. Finally Tomass' compromised on one-lira-fifty per hour, with fifty centesimi pourboire. Crack-crack!
There was nothing but the desultory crack-crack of snipers, coming from one knew not just where, the every-day voice of the trenches possibly the enemy were dismayed by the loss of the Triumph. He had seen it all, he said, from this very spot a sight one was not likely to see more than once in a lifetime. The great ship had rolled over like a stricken whale.
She felt the easy expansion of her body under her heavy jacket.... "Perhaps I won't have any more fitted bodices," she mused and was back for a moment in the stale little sitting-room of the Barnes dressmaker. She remembered deeply breathing in the odour of fabrics and dust and dankness and cracking her newly fitted lining at the pinholes and saying, "It is too tight there" crack-crack.
I sat outside watching the moon rise and listening to the distant Crack... crack-crack! of rifle and machine-gun fire from over Ari Bumu way. Evidently they were fighting in the trenches we had seen that morning. The orderly who had served us, withdrawn a little way, was standing like a statue in the dusk, hands folded in front of him, saying his last prayer of the evening.
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