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Every dog was opening now at the top of his voice at regular intervals, the swing and leap of their bodies over the brush and around the trees registering in each stirring note. Again Tom gave a shout of approval. The sound of the leader's voice suddenly flattened and faded. "By Gum!" the old hunter cried, "they've left the woods, struck that field an' makin' for the creek!
And as Barnabas stands there, an elegant figure, tall and graceful, all eyes may behold again the excellent fit of that wonderful coat, its dashing cut and flattened revers, while all ears await his words.
The two girls were dressed in the same light black-and-white checked silk of early youth, one with pink ribbons and the other with blue; but the contrast was the more apparent, for one was fresh and crisp, while the other was flattened and tumbled; one said everything had been delightful, the other that it had all been very stupid, and the expression made even more difference than the complexion, in one so fair, fresh, and rosy, in the other so sallow and muddled.
Australian Ike's elbow just grazed the portieres, and Jimmie Dale flattened himself against the window, holding his breath a smile on his lips that was mirthless, deadly, cold. The end was not far off now; and then WHAT? Stangeist had the outer door of the safe open now and now the inner door swung back.
Well only for a little bit of a minute, then," as Herbert persisted, and climbing upon her lap, flattened his face against the window pane. Glory gathered up her skirt about his shoulders and held him for a while, begging him uneasily, over and over, to "be a good boy, and go back to bed." No; he wouldn't be a good boy, and he wouldn't go back to bed, till the music paused.
And now this blackness seemed breaking itself up into strange shapes and shadows. Once he caught the flash of a fiery streak above him a gleam of sunshine and it startled him so that he flattened himself down upon the log and did not move for half a minute. Then he went on. An ermine squeaked under him.
A bullet of mine, though, flattened the big negro's nose a little more than Nature had already done for him, and which did not improve his beauty, as you can well believe. "We kept on popping away at them whenever we saw we had a shot, the whole of this day; well, that was only yesterday, but appears ages ago to me, sirs!
But thereafter when the wings are twisted by being drawn transversely and by the resistance of the air, they are flattened as has been declared and will be made manifest hereafter.
As he glanced down the advertisement column, with his head thrust forward and the paper flattened out upon his knee, I took a good look at the man and endeavoured, after the fashion of my companion, to read the indications which might be presented by his dress or appearance. I did not gain very much, however, by my inspection.
We worked continuously until 10 p.m. with only the shortest of meal intervals, and then, tired but contented, we "flattened out" in our sleeping-bags, bunks, or hammocks. The following day the same routine was continued and nearly the whole of the provision cases came ashore and were stacked in neat little piles under Bowers's direction.
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