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She sat upright once more, and, looking at May, asked in a voice only just above a whisper: "What have you to say to this?" "What can I say," exclaimed the girl, with high-voiced vehemence. "I know nothing about it. Of course it's easy enough to believe that Mr. Lashmar wants to get out of his engagement to Miss Bride." She laughed scornfully. "He "
There were parish schools also perhaps others; and off some dark alley, in a room on the ground-floor, could be heard the strident noise of education going on in high-voiced study and recitation. Nor were amusements lacking notices of balls, dancing this evening, and ten-cent shows in palaces of legerdemain and deformity.
I have had no bliss that fear hath not entered into in very truth inter delicias semper aliquid saevi nos strangulavit. His lugubrious tones grew higher with hatred; he raised one hand above his head and one gripped tight her fat shoulder. 'Terror hath bestridden our realm of England; no man dares to whisper his hate even to the rushes. Me! Me! Me! he reached a pitch of high-voiced fury. 'Me!
It was the same high-voiced deliberately ungrammatical Judge Priest that the kindly reader may recall somewhat older than at last accounts, somewhat slower in his step but then he never had been given to fast movements and perhaps just a trifle balder. "Wuz dey anythin' else you wanted, jedge, 'fore I locks up the back of the house an' lights out?"
He came, he talked in his high-voiced, querulous, bitter-humoured way, he saw and sought the grave young Sanchia, and he won her pitying heart directly he had engrossed her watching eyes. She was a girl intensely interested in a hundred dawning things, to whom love had come late. Until she was near twenty you would have thought her sexless.
But before he could speak, a second man appeared in the doorway, and this man appeared to be joking with a third, behind him. As the second man crossed the threshold, de Spain saw Sandusky's high-voiced little fighting crony, Logan, who now made way, as he stepped within to the right of the open door, for the swinging shoulders and rolling stride of Gale Morgan.
Of course everybody pursued, but we could not recapture them. Ten minutes later the hyenas broke into the most unholy laughter. We could not blame them; the joke was certainly on us. In passing, the cachinnations of the laughing hyena are rather a series of high-voiced self-conscious titters than laughter.
And I have been invited to sit in more than one tall, dark house of the old town at their hospitable board, had the bouillabaisse ladled out into a thick plate by their high-voiced, broad-browed wives, talked to their daughters thick-set girls, with pure profiles, glorious masses of black hair arranged with complicated art, dark eyes, and dazzlingly white teeth.
There were parish schools also perhaps others; and off some dark alley, in a room on the ground-floor, could be heard the strident noise of education going on in high-voiced study and recitation. Nor were amusements lacking notices of balls, dancing this evening, and ten-cent shows in palaces of legerdemain and deformity.
Whenever she could steal a minute of time, away from her father's glum eyes and nagging voice and ready fist, she would seek out Lad. She was as gentle with the grand old dog as other children had been rough. She loved to cuddle down close beside him, her arms around his shaggy neck; and croon queer little high-voiced songs to him; her thin cheek against his head.
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