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You never did it before.... That girl isn't your " "Shut up!" hissed Kells. Like a flash his hand flew out with his gun, and all about him was dark menace. Gulden made no attempt to draw. He did not show surprise nor fear nor any emotion. He appeared plodding in mind. Red Pearce stepped between Kells and Gulden. There was a realization in the crowd, loud breaths, scraping of feet.
The black north wind!" shouted the steersman, and the sailors echoed his cry dismally, for they knew the terrors of that wind upon the Syrian coast. Then the gale began to rage. By daylight the waves were running high as mountains and the wind hissed through the rigging, driving them forward beneath a small sail.
"Faustina, for your own sake, if not for any other's, exercise some discretion!" exclaimed the viscount angrily. "Villain!" she screamed, in fury, "I had no discretion when I listened to you!" "I wish to Heaven you had had then! I should not have been in this mess," he replied. "Ah!" she hissed. "If my hands were not fettered I would tear your eyes!"
This has been borne and the author despised, and indignantly hissed from the society of the respectable and virtuous but the end is not gained new themes of reviling new subjects of abuse must be sought, and the party who wish to effect a revolution, are pledged to uphold and protect the agents however wicked. What then may now be expected?
"Quong Lee followed his guest to the street, and watched his retreating figure until lost to sight. "'Curse him! Curse him! hissed the old man vindictively. 'May the gods destroy him! And Quong Lee will aid them! Give me but the chance; oh, give me but the chance! And he crossed his fingers.
Eager for any chance I hissed under my breath; "Danger! Look out!" I could not tell whether or not Darrow heard me. He left soon after. The mention of the chest had focussed the men's interest. "Well," Pulz began, "we've been here on this spot o' hell for a long time." "A year and five months," reckoned Thrackles. "A man can do a lot in that time." "If he's busy." "They've been busy." "Yes."
Nagaina was coiled up on the matting by Teddy's chair, within easy striking distance of Teddy's bare leg, and she was swaying to and fro, singing a song of triumph. "Son of the big man that killed Nag," she hissed, "stay still. I am not ready yet. Wait a little. Keep very still, all you three! If you move I strike, and if you do not move I strike. Oh, foolish people, who killed my Nag!"
It was a midnight surprise, although not fully accomplished until near the dawn of day. It was not a triumphal entrance; nor did Henry come as the victorious standard-bearer of a great principle. He had defeated the League in many battle-fields, but the League still hissed defiance at him from the very hearthstone of his ancestral palace.
There was but one thing to be done: to kill the person who had just uttered it. Ogareff darted at Nadia; but the girl, a knife in her hand, retreated against the wall, determined to defend herself. "Ivan Ogareff!" again cried Nadia, knowing well that so detested a name would soon bring her help. "Ah! Be silent!" hissed out the traitor between his clenched teeth.
The water bubbled and hissed round us, and the wind threw it in sheets of spray over our heads. At times it came rippling over the sides of the canoe, and there seemed a prospect of its being filled; but the seaman held on his course without hesitation.
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