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A second's palpitating silence; a woman's hysterical laugh and a deep-mouthed bellow rent the expectant air: shouts, screams, hat-tossings, back-clappings blending in a din that made the many-winding waters of the Silver Lea quiver and quiver again. Owd Bob o' Kenmuir had won the Shepherds' Trophy outright. Maggie's face flushed a scarlet hue.
When the story began to ripen toward its conclusion he grew more animated, ... rising, he paced the room as he declaimed the splendid lines that now rolled gloriously one upon another like deep-mouthed billows thundering on the shore, his gestures were all indicative of the fervor of his inward ecstasy, his eyes flashed, his features glowed with that serene, proud light of conscious power and triumph that rests on the calm, wide brows of the sculptured Apollo, and Theos, leaning one arm in a half-sitting posture, contemplated him with a curious sensation of wistful eagerness and passionate pain, such as might be felt by some forgotten artist mysteriously permitted to come out of his grave and wander back to earth, there to see his once-rejected pictures hung in places of honor among the world's chief treasures.
Some deep-mouthed old forester will open his jaws, and send forth a volume of sound so deep, so loud, so changeful, so undulating and variable in its character, that, as it rolls along the forest, and comes back in quavering echoes from the mountains, you will almost swear that his single voice is an agglomerate of a thousand, all mixed, and mingled, and rolled up into one.
Even the bark of the rebel mastiff was music in comparison, and his bite would have hurt him less. "By the way," said Seth, "the old skinflint will be after us, sure as guns. Hurry! or we'll hear 'The deep-mouthed bull-dog's heavy bay resounding up the rocky way, and faint, from farther distance borne, the darned old rebel's dinner horn. Give me that chicken, Ellis.
Blackened and bare lava rocks, steep volcanic ridges and gorges, irregular truncated cones, deep-mouthed caves and fissures, overhanging arches, natural bridges, great tunnels and ravines, surrounded them on every side, and so concealed the softer features of the country that it was scarcely possible to believe in the reality of the verdant region out of which they had just passed.
Many a swelling hill, clad in the dark oak coppice, had echoed to ringing shout of hunter and deep-mouthed bay of hound, ere the wild boar yielded his grim life by the morass, and the dark, grisly carcass was drawn off to provide a standing dish that was only meant to gratify the eye.
'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark, Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home 'Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come. Marriage is the natural state of man and woman. Matrimony greatly contributes to the wealth and health of man. Circumstances may compel a man not to select a companion until late in life.
Why should I? I had rather let them be! Hark! Yea, Watch, as the dog pricked his ears and raised his graceful head, then sprang up and uttered a deep-mouthed bark. The sheep darted away to her companions, and Hal rose to his feet, as the dog began to wave his tail, and Hob came forward accompanied by a tall, grave-looking gentleman. 'Here he be, sir.
Carlo looked up through his dim eyes and gave a feeble whine, which, in his young days, would have been a deep-mouthed bay of welcome.
At the time she fully expected to be torn in pieces, and was actually surprised when they suddenly parted and swept round the hut, encircling it with deep-mouthed baying. The huntsman, arriving on the scene, found her white-faced but still determined, still firmly propping the shutter in place with the weight of her body.
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