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The crowd begins to laugh and whistle and hiss the very father of the man whistles with the rest. "Conceit! Foolery!" is the cry. "It has happened just as he deserved: put the crack-brain under lock and key!"
She had not thrown out all the corn, but as she turned away a few kernels scattered from the dish. Instantly the gander saw this. With a long hiss he started after the two children, and many of his flock kept right behind their leader. "Oh! Come quick, Mun Bun!" gasped Margy. Mun Bun seized her hand. As they ran up the slope the corn scattered from the dish.
She was to wear over her head the mask of a real cat. A long scraggy tail was stuck on behind, which by an ingenious device could jerk up and down and from side to side. Daisy Watson rejoiced in her part, and had learned the miauw, the mew, the hiss, the dash forward, the howl of rage, and the purr to perfection.
"A very queer present to give a girl," said Rene; "what can you do with them?" A captivating flash of playfulness came into her face and she sprang backward, giving the sword a semicircular turn with her wrist. The blade sent forth a keen hiss as it cut the air close, very close to Rene's nose. He jerked his head and flung up his hand.
"What d'you mean, idiotic?" cried the author, growing very pale. "It's you that are the idiot, my dear boy!" Bordenave began to get angry at once. He repeated the word "idiotic" and, seeking a more forcible expression, hit upon "imbecile" and "damned foolish." The public would hiss, and the act would never be finished!
The swollen river was lost in the torrent of it; and the hiss of the rain was drowned by its sound. So Nature's full, hollowed hand ran over lightning-lighted to the organ music of the thunder; but for these horror-stricken watchers the majestic phenomena sweeping before them held no splendor and prompted no admiration.
"Afraid! afraid of what? That I shouldn't want her!" But at that moment the kettle boiled over with a great hiss, and brought them back to everyday affairs again.
As we fell, however, I caught it by the throat, and the moment we reached the platform, a struggle commenced, in which I soon got uppermost, with my hand upon its throat, and knee upon its heart. But now arose a wild cry of wrath and revenge and rescue. A universal hiss of steel, as every sword was swept from its scabbard, seemed to tear the very air in shreds.
"Certainly, certainly only chere amie you know that that as I before announced to thee, I I was engaged in marriage and and " "But are you married?" "No, no. Hark! Take care is not that the hiss of an obus?" "What then? Let it come! Would it might slay us both while my hand is in thine!" "Ah!" muttered Gustave, inwardly, "what a difference! This is love! No preaching here!
They were speckled black and yellow like toads, and had scales or knobs on their backs like those of crocodiles, plated on to the skin, or stuck into it, as part of the skin. They are very slow in motion, and when a man comes nigh them they will stand still and hiss, not endeavouring to get away.
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