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Even as Ranulph was about to knock and call the poor vagrant's name, the clac-clac stopped, and then there came a sniffing at the shutters as a dog sniffs at the door of a larder. Following the sniffing came a guttural noise of emptiness and desire.
"Take this to Father Domenico from me," said Dionea, breaking off a twig of myrtle starred over with white blossom; and raising her head with that smile like the twist of a young snake, she sang out in a high guttural voice a strange chant, consisting of the word Amor amor amor. I took the branch of myrtle and threw it in her face. January 3, 1886
Their language is guttural, harsh, and polysyllabical; and their speech consists of hyperbolical metaphors and similies, which invest it with an air of dignity and heighten the expression. They manage their conferences by means of wampum, a kind of bead formed of a hard shell, either in single strings, or sewed in broad belts of different dimensions, according to the importance of the subject.
Then the German sailor who had launched the torpedo cried out: "Did we hit her, sir?" Lord Hastings took his eye from the periscope long enough to answer: "Squarely on the bridge, my man." The sailor gave a guttural exclamation of joy, in which his countrymen joined. The three Englishmen had the presence of mind to say nothing.
His smiling face became transformed with fury, his black eyes gleamed with the cunning malignity of the savage, he shed his soft Scotch voice with his genial manner, the very movements of his body became those of his Cree progenitors. Uttering hoarse guttural cries, with the quick crouching run of the Indian on the trail of his foe, he chased Kalman through the bluffs.
'Do you know if your squire has sold his estate yet? asked a guttural voice from the second sledge. 'You shouldn't ask him such a question, Fritz, remonstrated his companion. 'Oh! the devil take the whole business! replied Fritz. 'Aha, here they are again! said Slimak. 'What do all those Old Testament Jews want? asked Maciek. 'There was only one Jew, the others are Germans from Wolka.
A voice was speaking in the lighted room; yet I could have sworn that Karamaneh had come, not from there but from the room beyond from the far end of the passage. But the voice! who, having once heard it, could ever mistake that singular voice, alternately guttural and sibilant! Dr. Fu-Manchu was speaking!
They heard a guttural exclamation and words exchanged in a strange, harsh tongue. "Indians, blow me!" hoarsely whispered Joe, his throat sore and swollen. "Comrade ahoy!" croaked Jack. "No pirates these, but Yemassees. Do they save us for the torture?" "God knows. 'Tis a sorry mischance as ever was. I'd sooner meet up with Blackbeard's ghost. Are ye badly hurt?"
Herr Hippe started, raised his head, which vibrated on his long neck like the head of a cobra when about to strike, and after a moment's silence uttered a strange guttural sound. The door unclosed, and a squat, broad-shouldered woman, with large, wild, Oriental eyes, entered softly. "Ah! Filomel, you are come!" said the Wondersmith, sinking back in his chair. "Where are the rest of them?"
Boys as a gineral thing hain't got no bizness on the plains, no how; but these are a-goin' to larn Injin fightin', sartin." "Umph! putty muche boy no good," responded the Arapahoe, in deep guttural tones. "Where's your folks, old pard?" inquired Jerry.
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