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Then, reaching to the rail of the step, she tried to pull herself up, but as she did so the engine gave a long snort and the whole train, as if it were in league against her, lurched forward crazily, shaking off her hold.
Beryl heard Harkness' slow step, as he went to the door; then it climbed the stairs and stopped outside of Robin's room. "Miss Beryl a telegram." "For me?" Beryl drew back. She had never received a telegram in her life and the yellow envelope frightened her. "The boy said as to sign here." Beryl wrote her name mechanically in letters that zigzagged crazily.
Farther away, the chance of stumbling on the way back to the ship would be nonexistent. Alicia saw a human footprint on the trodden muck near the last carcass. It pointed toward the wood. They reached the wood, and search looked hopeless. Then by purest chance they found a place where Johnny had stumbled and fallen headlong. He'd leaped up and fled crazily.
"My dear sir!" exclaimed the man who fell with me, and I found the Rev. Luther Meeker sitting on a crumpled mat and propped up with his arms behind him, while his pith helmet went dancing away on its rim to settle crazily upon its crown a dozen feet from us.
The thoughts of the boobilariat dance easily to the tangled lyric of the clarinet. The thoughts tie themselves into crazy knots. The music of the clarinet becomes like crazily uncoiling whips. The thoughts of the dancers shake themselves loose from words under the spur of the whips. They begin to dance, not as the feet dance. There is another rhythm here. The rhythm of little ecstasies whimpering.
Then the threads of smoke became the thickness of cables, of columns! They should have ringed the transport plane in. But the jatos had jumped it crazily forward and were still thrusting fiercely to make it go faster than any prop-plane could. The acceleration made the muscles at the front of Joe's throat ache as he held his head upright against it. "They'll be proximity " Then the plane bucked.
McGregor walked rapidly away toward his own room and his books. He did not know how he would be able to use the new impulse that had come to him but as he swung along through dark streets and past rows of dark buildings he thought again of the great machine running crazily and without purpose and was glad he was not a part of it.
The German submarine, with its officers and crew upon its deck, was hurled high in the air as the Lawrence's shell burst squarely amidships. It came down in a million pieces. Alongside, the British boats sent to take off the Germans rocked crazily for several moments on the angry waves. When these became still, there was no German nor submarine to be seen.
I said I could make enough at bridge, and he thought I was joking! He's a dear!" Anne was enthusiastic. I looked after him. Oddly enough the feeling that we had met before stuck to me. Which was ridiculous, of course, for we learned afterward that the nearest we ever came to meeting was that our mothers had been school friends! Just then I saw Jim beckoning to me crazily from the den.
There was a shout from the oncoming horde, and the sharp crack of rifles and bullets began to spatter against the side of the engine. "Well, we'll give 'em a chase, anyhow," said Hal grimly. He opened the throttle even wider. The engine rocked crazily as it dashed along, and the boys hung on to whatever offered for dear life.
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