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In the meanwhile the insistent clamor of the city was forcing itself on her attention, until at length she became engrossed by it. The theaters had just been closed, and the streets resounded with the humming of motors, the drumming of hoofs and the rattle of wheels.
Chris glanced up, drumming his fingers softly on the table. "Nick," he said, "there is no use in that. When is she to die?" The knight's face flushed again with pleasure, and he showed his teeth set together. "Two days," he said, "please God, or three at the most. And she will not meet those she has sent before her, or John Fisher whose head she had brought to her the bloody Herodias!"
The black leaped here and there, doubling about with the sinuous speed of a snake, springing high in the air one instant, and landing the next on stiff legs; dropping to the ground the next second, and rolling to crush the rider; up again like a leaf jerked up by a gale of wind, and so the fierce struggle continued, with the wild rider slapping the neck of the horse as if he would encourage it to more terrible efforts, and drumming its round barrel with vindictive heels.
The attraction doesn't begin till ten, don't you know, and nobody goes before." "Tell me she's rippin'." "Good deuced good." Glory was sitting with her back to the engine drumming lightly on the window and looking out at the setting sun.
Never was there such pounding since Thackeray's old Pierre, who, "just to keep up his drumming, one day drummed down the Bastile": At midnight I beat the tattoo, And woke up the Pikemen of Paris To follow the bold Barbaroux. On the waves of this drumming the people poured out from every gate of the garden, until the last loiterer passed and the gendarmes closed the portals for the night.
After sundown the great door of the Pavilion de l'Horloge swung open and there issued from it a drum-corps, which marched across the private garden and down the broad allee of the public garden, drumming as if the judgment-day were at hand, straight to the great gate of the Place de la Concorde, and returning by a side allee, beating up every covert and filling all the air with clamor until it disappeared, still thumping, into the court of the palace; and all the square seemed to ache with the sound.
I heard them talking in low voices which made a drumming noise in my ears, like that which the sea makes when it is rolling into a cave. "She's let herself down so low, pore thing, that I don't know in the world what's to happen to her." "As God is my witness, look you, I never saw anybody live on so little." "I'm not afraid of the mother. I'm more afraid of the child, if you ask me."
He wondered what it was, but his brain was still dulled and gave no information. He tried to forget but could not, and looked up at Lucia Catherwood for explanation, but she had none to offer. He wished to go to sleep, but the noise that soft but steady drumming on the ear would not let him. His desire to know grew and became painful.
In the midst of all these interesting disclosures, a terrible drumming, buzzing noise filled the air. "What's that din?" I asked Tom. "Oh, that's the tea-gong," he replied. "We must go in now, as we'll get none if we are late, for the Doctor teaches punctuality by example." "He told me he had `a way of his own' for making his pupils obey him," said I. "Did he?
Then, too, your national weakness bids your eyes see what you would have them see." "Go on," Mr. Haviland said, drumming idly with his fingers upon the table. "I have had to ask myself," the Prince continued, "it has been my business to ask myself what is your position as a great military power, and the answer I have found is that as a great military power it does not exist.
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