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The sentry made a faint effort to stir, that was answered by an ominous growl from Tumbu. Only one more bolt now! Roy's long fingers were at it his whole strength went to it it creaked groaned slid, and with a sob of exultation Roy felt the fresh air of dawn in his face as he stood outside the Bala Hissar. But he had still much to do.
Wheezy old Noah on the box cracked his whip, the fat horses in the traces pulled and grunted, the coach creaked and groaned, the wheels turned and Frances had set forth, a maiden St. George, to fight the dragon of Whitehall, compared to which the old-time monster was but a bleating lamb.
Lo, I will let down the bridge, and thou mayst enter." "What a squalid old man! Can he be the sole inhabitant?" said Almeric in a whisper. The rusty machinery creaked, the bridge sank into its appointed place, and at the same moment the portcullis was heard to wind up with a grating sound. The little troop entered the courtyard through the gateway in the tower.
As he creaked heavily across the smooth floor of the nave; "Alice," she whispered, "I don't know exactly what I've done: Who introduced this young Mr. Mavering to you?" "Mr. Munt." "Mr. Munt!" "Yes; he came for me; he said you sent him. He introduced Mr. Mavering, and he was very polite. Mr. Mavering said we ought to go up into the gallery and see how it looked; and Mr.
The men laughed good-humouredly, and the bare staircase creaked and groaned beneath their heavy tread, which directly afterwards made the upper passage, with its sloping ceiling, which followed the shapes of the gables, echo. That part of the search was quickly done, not so quickly that it did not give time to Waller to whistle the stave of the old Hampshire ditty three times over.
At last, after a considerable journey, I felt the side of the boat scrape up against a landing-place. The fellow knocked three times with his oar upon wood, and in answer to his summons I heard the rasping of bars and the turning of keys. A great door creaked back upon its hinges. "Have you got him?" asked a voice, in Italian. My monster gave a laugh and kicked the sack in which I lay.
Stubbs. "Give me size. That was what my poor dear husband was always saying. He couldn't stand anything small. Gave him the creeps. And, strange as it may seem, my dear" here Mrs. Stubbs creaked and seemed to expand herself at the memory "it was dropsy that carried him off at the larst. Many's the time they drawn one and a half pints from 'im at the 'ospital... It seemed like a judgmint."
Then, lifting his eyes to the shivering leaves overhead, Beltane of a sudden espied a naked foot a down-curving, claw-like thing, shrivelled and hideous, and, glancing higher yet, beheld a sight to blast the sun from heaven: now staring up at the contorted horror of this shrivelled thing that once had lived and laughed, Beltane let fall his staff and, being suddenly sick and faint, sank upon his knees and, covering his eyes, crouched there in the grass the while that grisly, silent thing swayed to and fro above him in the gentle wind of morning and the cord whereby it hung creaked faintly.
It seemed to them as if evening would never come. At ten o'clock they alighted at Bonnieres; and there they took the ferry an old ferry-boat that creaked and grated against its chain for Bennecourt is situated on the opposite bank of the Seine.
The only illumination of his rude quarters came from a tallow candle stuck in a socket made by boring an auger-hole in a block of wood. Night had fallen, the wind blew in violent gusts and the timbers of the flatboat creaked and shuddered.
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