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Had these hills been as barren as the wastes over which we had just passed, so as they had been of stone we should have hailed them with joy. But, no! sandy ridges once more rose up in terrible array against us, although we had left the last full 50 miles behind, even the animals I think regarded them with dismay.
'Now you're quite warm, said the young man, as if speaking to a child, 'and it's time to go. Nancy rose obediently, gazed at him with dreaming eyes, and suffered herself to be led away by the arm. In Chancery Lane, Tarrant hailed a crawling hansom.
Each man answered to his name, and each man ended with 'God save the King! When all were hailed, the drummer stepped back to his mound, and called: "'It is well. You are content, and we are content to join you. Wait, now, a little while. "With this he turned and ordered my father to pick up the lantern, and lead the way back.
"I'll let you know then whether I can accept your gift, Mr. Gordon," Valencia told him. "That's all settled," he assured her as he left. It was in the evening that he saw her again. Dick had stopped in the hall on the way to his room to examine a .303 Savage carbine he found propped against the wall. He had picked the weapon up when a voice above hailed him. He looked up.
He was well-known to Kathleen, and it turned out that, having seen the cockle start at too great a distance to be hailed, and having set his heart on joining in the excursion, he had watched their movements, observed their landing on the islet which was not far from the main circlet of land and, running round till he came opposite to it, swam off and got into the boat.
Twice I repeated this; then fearing lest the Provost-Marshal should make good his word and apply a ram to the door, I opened the trap. A dozen angry voices hailed my appearance, and this with so much violence and impatience that it was some time before I could get a hearing; the knaves threatening me if I would not instantly open, and persisting that I should do so without more words.
This was the dark season, and, as I had already learned, its advent was always hailed with joy and celebrated with solemn services, for the dark season freed them from their long confinement, permitted them to go abroad, to travel by sea and land, to carry on their great works, to indulge in all their most important labors and favorite amusements.
The Media Nocte is a society devoted to noble pleasures, to pure joys, to the highest, most intellectual enjoyments. All the arts, all the sciences, are fostered by it. All that is great and good, exalted and beautiful, is hailed there with delight, and only pedantry and stupidity are held aloof.
Mack Nolan waited until Casey had climbed out from behind the wheel and headed for the door. Then he stepped out and hailed him. Casey started perceptibly, whirling as if to face an enemy. When he saw that it was Nolan he apparently lost his desire to enter the cabin. Instead he came close to Nolan and spoke in a hoarse whisper. "We better run 'er under the shed, Mr.
He was astonished at himself for using it, but there had been moments during the past few days when the ordinary expletives used in the learned volumes of higher mathematics did not fit the occasion. Before anything more could be said there was a shout from the roadway near them. "Is Richard Yates there?" hailed the voice. "Yes. Who wants him?" cried Yates, springing out of the hammock.
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