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Once more the echoing passage roared with the din of conflict, as their assailants rushed again, were checked, smote and were smitten, and fell back howling before the thrust of the nobbly stick and the swing of the heavy bludgeon. "Now vill ye run?" panted Mr. Shrig, straightening the broad-brimmed hat. "No!" "V'y then, I vill!" which Mr. Shrig immediately proceeded to do.
O help!" cried Hilda; "I cannot, cannot bear it!" Only by the reverberations that followed arch echoing the sound to arch, and a pope of bronze repeating it to a pope of marble, as each sat enthroned over his tomb did Hilda become aware that she had really spoken above her breath.
He must be at the top of the hill where Tom had enjoyed his brief triumph, he must be smelling the very log on which Tom had sat. He had left the log. The sound burst on the old fugitive now, almost like a chorus, menacing, terrible, inexorable as fate. All the hills, all the valleys, were echoing as if a whole pack were running. How much worse than futile had been his tricks!
"One of them; I have many." When Livingstone walked into Mrs. Wright's drawing-room that evening he had never had such a greeting, and he had never been in such spirits. His own Christmas dinner had been the success of his life. He could still see those happy faces about his board, and hear those joyous voices echoing through his house. The day seemed to have been one long dream of delight.
"Hear that?" said Fred in a whisper. "Yes; water." "Water! Yes, of course; but listen again." They kept silence, and there ascended from below, through the almost hidden crevice, a low whisper of an echoing roar, which died away in a peculiar hissing sound that was thrilling in its strange suggestiveness. "There must be a waterfall somewhere below there," said Scarlett at last.
Similarly, service being over in the old Cathedral with the square tower, and the choir scuffling out again, and divers venerable persons of rook-like aspect dispersing, two of these latter retrace their steps, and walk together in the echoing Close. Not only is the day waning, but the year.
Doctor, there's a notion for you! an old bachelor like you, too! He! he!" "We are indeed!" cried the old man, echoing the shrill tones of his helpmeet. "I'm Morgan, Dr Prudhom, and he's Dell. Indeed, we're speaking the truth. We only did it " "There, you see," once more observed the delighted professor; "it's the very thing I knew would happen.
"From all the harping throng Bursts the tumultuous song, Like the unceasing sound of cataracts pouring, Hosanna o'er hosanna louder roaring. That faintly echoing down to earthly ears, Hath seemed the concert sweet of the harmonious spheres." Soon after Mrs. Godfrey's departure from Parr Town for England, Little Mag Guidon went up the St.
"Gold isn't copper." "Thank you," he said sarcastically. "I found that out a long time ago. I never could do anything like so much with a penny as I could with a sov. Here, Sergeant," he cried as the first water-bag was pulled up, dripping, and with the sound of the water that fell back echoing musically with many repetitions underground, in what seemed to be a vast place. "Water good?"
Everyone else is right here where you can " At that instant a deafening explosion shook the studio and every building about the quadrangle, the sound echoing and re-echoing with the sharpness of a terrific thunderclap. Mixed with the reverberations, which were intensified by the high arch of the studio roof, were the screams of women and the frightened calls of men.
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