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The hard stone walls were hung with tattered tapestries, and before they had settled well into their chairs two men entered with food and wine of the best. "Not so bad," smiled Brian as they ate. "How come your wounds, brother?" "Those scratches? Bah!" And the giant gurgled down half a quart of Canary at a stretch. "You are not going to sleep on that bed of cloths?"
What tales of coughing, consumptive glass-cutters, bending over wheels, their lungs cut to pieces by the myriad spicules of sharp glass, so that we, we of our class, may enjoy beauty of design and coloring! And the silken gown I wear that too has cost " "No more! No more of this!" gurgled old Flint, now nearly in apoplexy. "I deny you! I repudiate you, Anarchist that you are! Go!
The tiny wavelets of the river murmured and gurgled amid the heavy piles which shored up the landing-place, and Devar's sharp eyes soon detected a corner of the gray-colored limousine round which a ripple had formed.
On Monks Barton thatches the pigeons cooed and bowed and gurgled to their ladies, cows lowed from the byres, cocks crew, and the mill-wheel, already launched upon the business of the day, panted from its dark habitation of dripping moss and fern. Billy sniffed the morning, then proceeded to a pig's sty, opened a door within it, and chuckled at the spectacle that greeted him.
Presently we came to an open space, free of trees, where the moon shone brightly; it was a round precipitous hollow, that had been excavated apparently by the action of a small clear stream or spout of water, that sparkled in the moonbeams like a web of silver tissue, as it leaped in a crystal arch over our heads from the top of a rock about twenty feet high, that rose on our right hand, the summit clearly and sharply defined against the blue firmament, while, on the left, was a small hollow or ravine, down which the rivulet gurgled and vanished; while ahead the same impervious forest prevailed, beneath which we had been travelling for so many hours.
And the rusk did a somersault. . . ." "But he didn't haunt the door," gurgled Joan. "He got roped in. He fell an easy victim to the snag parade and women fainted and men wept when the man of great possessions and the pointed woman took the floor. . . ." "Pointed?" murmured Vane. "All jolts and bumps," explained the girl. "Her knees were like steel castings.
"And the man's face as he passed me going to the leap! It will haunt me to my dying day!" Then she shivered, and gurgled in her throat, and turning suddenly round, hid her face on the elbow of the couch. "I've been afraid all the afternoon that she would be ill," whispered Lady Augustus to Miss Penge. "She is so susceptible!"
The dark water eddied and gurgled amid the ice-floes, from which a ghastly gleam was reflected, like that from the face of a corpse dimly seen amid the dark. Occasionally a huge fragment of ice would grate, and crash, and crunch against the frail ribs of the boat, as if eager to crush it and frustrate the generous purpose of its passengers.
Miss Child, Miss Vedrine will help you out of 'First Love' behind the screen and put you into the 'Young Moon. What" sotto voce "are you laughing at this time?" "Nothing," said the smallest dryad meekly, though she gurgled under her breath. "We'd better go now, and I'll come back," hastily suggested Peter. "Don't bother to change behind the screen for us, please.
Always a headerin' down here, they is. Like one o'clock. 'And at about that hour of the morning, I suppose? 'Ah! said the apparition. 'THEY an't partickler. Two 'ull do for THEM. Three. All times o' night. On'y mind you! Here the apparition rested his profile on the bar, and gurgled in a sarcastic manner.
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