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O that my cradle had never been rock'd; But that I had died when I was young! O that the grave it were my bed; My blankets were my winding sheet; The clocks and the worms my bedfellows a'; And O sad sound as I should sleep! I do not remember in all my reading to have met with anything more truly the language of misery than the exclamation in the last line.
It was late in the afternoon that the serious, and what was to prove the most important, feature of the evening's performance developed. On a return trip to the dry-goods store Jack drew Alex to a halt with an exclamation, and pointed across the street. Burke, the real estate man, was walking slowly along with a shrivelled-up little old gentleman in dilapidated hat, faded garments, and top-boots.
And he flashed the lantern's light upon him. That was the crisis of the situation; for as the Spaniard looked he made the appalling discovery that his victim's feet were untied. And he staggered back, dazed. "Por dios!" he gasped. And that exclamation was his last sound. Clif had nerved himself for the spring; for he knew that Ignacio might have a revolver and that no risks could be taken.
Unknowingly, he laughed, and found himself as conspicuous as though he had appeared suddenly in his night-clothes. The tipstaffs beat upon the rail, the lawyer he had interrupted uttered an indignant exclamation, Andrews came hurriedly toward him, and the young judge slowly turned his head. "Those persons," he said, "who cannot respect the dignity of this court will leave it."
The exclamation must have been caught from her father, who liked not the priests of his native land well enough to interfere between his English wife and their child in such a matter as religious training. "What happened?" said Wilfrid, vainly seeking for personal application in this narrative. "Listen!
"Quick!" she said; "we are wasting time, and he may be gone." Checking an exclamation which could hardly have been complimentary to Auguste, the Vicomtesse crossed quickly to her and put her arm about her. "We will follow you, mignonne," she said in French. "Must you come?" said Antoinette, appealingly. "He may not appear if he sees any one."
He was looking at this mallet with some curiosity, balancing and weighing it in his hands, when a sudden exclamation of fright from the gendarme drew his eyes to the trunk, the lid of which had just been thrown back. Juve did not lose all his professional impassivity, but even he leaped forward like a flash, swept the gendarme to one side, and dropped on his knees beside the open box.
"That's for me," was J.C.'s involuntary exclamation, which, however, was lost amid the general titter which ran through the house.
They'll be splendid company." "God bless my soul!" murmured Mr. Wells helplessly, when he could find breath to murmur anything. He stared at her as if he really had never seen her before. An exclamation, like the pop of a gun, made them look at the doorway where Sako was staring at them as if he could not believe his eyes. "Sako!" shouted Mr. Wells, angrily.
His knowledge was limited on the subject, yet Jenks believed that the material here was a hard limestone rather than the external basalt. Searching each inch with the feeble light, he paused once, with an exclamation. "What is it?" cried Iris. "I cannot be certain," he said, doubtfully. "Would you mind holding the lamp whilst I use a crowbar?"