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Sure, never were poor souls more perilously placed; and as we lay there on our oars, praying God the mist might hold, the sweat poured from my brow. Presently we heard one of the boats where we might have thrown a biscuit in her. "Softly, men," we heard an officer whisper; and I marvelled they could not hear the drumming of my heart.
They put him down, and he ran violently round and round, drumming with his hind legs on the floor of the shed, startling the does that couched, like cats, among the lettuce leaves and carrots. "When the little rabbits come half of them will be yours, because he'll be their father." "Oh " For the first time since Friday week Anne was happy. She loved the rabbit, she loved little Colin.
It meant more to Jack Marche, riding one sultry afternoon through the woods, idly drumming on his spurred boots with a battered riding-crop. It was his daily afternoon ride to the Château de Nesville; the shy wood creatures were beginning to know him, even the younger rabbits of the most recent generation sat up and mumbled their prehensile lips, watching him with large, moist eyes.
A fortnight before the wedding-day she was only sixteen at the time she went up to her betrothed, her arms folded and her fingers drumming on her elbows her favourite position and suddenly gave him a slap on his rosy cheek with her large powerful hand!
Just before it was time for the call to dress parade Pierson came hurrying into the room to hasten into his full-dress uniform. Haynes, already dressed with scrupulous care, looked curiously at his roommate. But Pierson did not appear to see him. Haynes stepped over to the window, drumming listlessly on the sill. At length he turned around.
And the drumming we heard as of hollow beaten metal worlds, the shouting tempests of cannonading stars, was the breaking of these incandescent crests, the falling of the lightning spindrift, the rhythmic impact of the lanced rays upon the glimmering mountain that reeled and trembled as they struck it. The reeling mountain, the struggling leviathan, was the City!
Waiting for him, I suppose," he added, flicking a curl of ash into the fire. "He's a treasure of a valet," he supplemented conversationally. But Miss Craven let the observation pass. She was still staring into the leaping flames, drumming with her fingers on the arms of the chair. Once she tried to speak but no words came. Peters waited.
Galvani was laughed at and called the frogs' dancing-master; Auenbrugger was made fun of for drumming on people; Harvey is said to have lost half of his consulting practice; all because they were advancing ideas that their contemporaries were not ready to accept.
His fingers were drumming a tattoo on the table; his eyes were roving furtively about the room; and he did not seem to be paying any but the most distrait attention to his companion, who was talking to him. Rhoda Gray sank quickly into a vacant chair. Three men, linked arm in arm, and decidedly more than a little drunk, were approaching her.
For a moment the two stood grinning at each other and listening to the heavy drumming of the rain on the cabin top, then Rick spoke. "We'd better get out of these wet clothes so we can sit down. This may last for an hour or so." Scotty agreed. "First one into dry shorts makes the coffee." "That's me," Rick said. He stripped off the soaking clothes, toweled quickly, and put on dry shorts.
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