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Elsewhere I must remain too far away to catch any portion of their conversation. So I darted across and entered the turret, noting on my way up the stairs the existence of the loopholed window where you finally saw me. It would never do to be caught there, so I went to the top and peeped over.
When the calculated velocity had been attained, the attractors were shut off and the vessel darted away toward that planet, still in the Carboniferous Age, which possessed at least one solid ledge of metallic "X," the rarest of all earthly metals.
Rango darted into the Great Clearing just as the Wizard had restored all the enchanted ones around him to their proper shapes, and the Gray Ape was glad to hear that the wicked magician-beast had been conquered.
Night insects hummed around; sometimes Tom heard the rustle made by some small animal as it darted through the undergrowth; there was no other sound. He was able to determine his general direction by means of the compass, but as the forest grew thicker he began to fear that he would find more difficulty than he had anticipated in retracing his course.
Suddenly the palisade began to waver, then it slowly fell over, as a stream of blue-clothed figures darted from its insufficient shelter. The dacoits did not make either for the door of the hut nor for the jungle they had left.
We shall cook Bhimasena, and eat him up! Thereupon that one of great force, taking his ponderous and mighty mace inlaid with golden plates, like unto the mace of Yama himself, turned towards those, and then said, 'Stay! At this, they darted at him with vehemence, brandishing lances, and axes, and other weapons.
"I can't say, sir, I'm sure," he replied, pursing up his lips. "What is the meaning " began Mr. Sagittarius. "I'm not aware that " started Madame. The Prophet darted to the library door and opened it. "Pray, pray come in here," he hissed. "My grandmother! Softly!" "But the old la " "Hush, please!" "I must remark, Mr. Viv " "Tsh! Tsh! Mr. Ferdinand, wait in the hall.
Duff, linen-draper-in-ordinary to Deerham a lady popularly spoken of as "Mother Duff," both behind her back and before her face. Nancy darted out at the laundry-door and waylaid the intruder in the yard. "Now, Dan Duff!" cried she, "what do you want?" "Please, here's this," was Dan Duff's reply, handing over the parcel. "And, please, I want to see Rachel Frost." "Who's it for?
The earth shook; a tremor ran through the Jasper B.; the glasses leaped and rang upon the table. Cleggett, followed by Lady Agatha, darted up the companionway. As Cleggett reached the deck there was a second shock, and he beheld a flame leap out of the earth itself a sudden sword of fire thrust into the night from the midst of the sandy plain before him.
He bent over the red spot, his lips very near it and twitching, all his volatile force melting into solicitude and his voice taut, as if he himself were suffering the anguish of a dozen wounds. "Only a scratch. Don't worry about it!" she assured him soothingly, with a peculiar smile. Now he made a gesture of amazement, catching at another thought that darted as a shooting star across his mind.
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