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The extraordinary little man smiled toothlessly and fingered his tray. 'Gentlemen, said Smyth, 'name your brands. 'Give me a double brandy, said Durwent, blowing on his chilled fingers. 'Better make it two doubles in a large glass. 'Soda, sir? queried the proprietor in a high-pitched, tranquil voice. 'No, said Durwent. 'You can bring a little water in a separate glass.
He frowned up at it, and it frowned down on him, standing there as cold and grim as itself. That was his only welcome. The doors and windows were all shut, so that he caught only a faint sound of the bump, thump of the scrubbing-brush as it accompanied Henri's high-pitched tune down the back stairs.
I was only too glad to flatten myself against the wall, as the rustling fury strode past me into the lighted room with the open door. "So this is your thieves' kitchen!" she cried, in high-pitched scorn. I was on the threshold myself, and Raffles glanced towards me with raised eyebrows.
Cynthia, trying to read in front of the fire, was all in a tremble at the sound of the high-pitched little voices she had grown to love, and she longed to go out and kiss them, every one. Her nature, however, shrank from any act which might appear dramatic or sensational. She could not resist going to the window and smiling at them, though they appeared but dimly little dancing figures in a mist.
I owe my life, primarily, to you, old man, but, secondarily, to the fact that I was awakened, just before the attack by the creature's coughing by its vile, high-pitched coughing..." I glanced around at the books upon my shelves.
Hollister a glancin' blow on the side of the bead. His next aim was better; but this time the nightstick didn't connect. There's been let loose a weird, high-pitched howl, which I didn't recognize at the time as the old Rebel yell, but know now that it was. Uncle Noah had gone into action. That walkin' stick of his was a second-growth hickory club as thick as your wrist at the big end.
The disturbance, however, continued. Someone was trying to enter there against Rrisa's protests. "I did not bring you up, sir," the Arab was saying, in broken English. "You cannot come in! How did you get here?" "I'm not in the habit of giving explanations to subordinates, or of bandying words with them," replied the man, in a clear, rather high-pitched but very determined voice.
He did not know, he was unable to say if his wife had simply been a weak and shallow woman, left too long alone, thrown too largely on her own resources in an environment so strongly tinctured by the high-pitched and reckless spirit generated by the war. He had always known that his wife women generally were the same, he supposed was dominated by emotional urges, rather than cold reason.
The long low line of the house rose behind them an attractive house and an old one, but with no architectural features to speak of, except a high-pitched mossy roof, a picturesque series of dormer-windows, and a high gable and small lantern cupola at the farther end which marked the private chapel.
Occasionally he coughed: a short, high-pitched cough, which made him wince. "You had better drink this before you talk," Colwyn said. He handed him a glass of brandy and water. Nepcote seized it eagerly and gulped it down. "I've caught a bad chill," he said in a hoarse unnatural voice. "I couldn't carry on any longer. That's why I came to see you to-night. But I'd given up hopes.
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