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Getting back to the platform whence he had started, Joe dropped the still blazing torches into a tub of water where they went out hissingly. This provided a fitting climax to the act, as showing that the flames were real ones. And then Joe donned his cap of leather, with the little grooved wheels fastened in the top, and on his head he slid down the slanting wire through the blazing hoops.
Scogan looked at her hand again as though to refresh his memory of the details of the scene. "A man," he repeated "a small man with a sharp nose, not exactly good looking nor precisely young, but fascinating." He lingered hissingly over the word.
And he acquired a curious habit; as though he had eaten too much of something sickeningly sweet, he kept licking his lips, smacking them, and would spit on the floor, hissingly, through his teeth. When he spoke, he did not finish his words, so rapidly did his thoughts run that his tongue was unable to compass them. One day the chief warden, accompanied by a soldier, entered his cell.
Distinct, coldly, calmly distinct, fell those few simple sounds within my ear, and thence like molten lead rolled hissingly into my brain. Years years may pass away, but the memory of that epoch never. Nor was I indeed ignorant of the flowers and the vine but the hemlock and the cypress overshadowed me night and day.
His voice came through them painfully, hissingly. "Thank 'ee," he muttered, and then closed his eyes. They carried him into a shack a little way up the valley and laid him on a cot. "Anything else to be done, miss?" asked one of the outlaws in an awed tone. "No," answered Peggy with quite the manner of a professional nurse; "he'll do nicely now. In an hour or so he ought to be better.
Evangeline whispered hissingly. "She's goin' to jump through a hoop o' fire! Without burnin' up!" John Bradford leaned forward to Miss Theodosia. "Having a good time?" he whispered. "Grand! Are you?" "Hunkydory!" He might have been a boy, she a girl. These might have been little Flagg brothers sisters. "We must have cones ice-cream cones," he said. "We've had 'em," piped Evangeline.
Morris Grant, from Massachusetts," the latter replied, his surprise increasing when Wilford rejoined: "Send Satan himself sooner than he. I hate him." The words dropped hissingly from the firmly set teeth, and Wilford fell back upon his pillow, exhausted with excitement and anger that Morris Grant should be there in the same building and offered as his physician.
From her perch she leaned down to curse him hissingly, with arched back and swollen tail, a potent forearm with drawn claws curving forward in menace. "You will, will you?" demanded Wilbur again, freeing his legs from the leash in which the dismayed dog had entwined them. Frank now fell on his back with limp paws in air and simpered girlishly up at his envenomed critic on the railing.
Ootah leaned over the edge of the ice and imitated the animal cry. "Woor-r," Maisanguaq, near him, replied. The water seethed, and two glistening white tusks appeared. Ootah raised his harpoon it hissingly cut the air. A terrific bellow followed. The little lake seethed. A dozen fiery eyes, of a phosphorescent green, appeared above the water. Maisanguaq struck, so did Arnaluk.
At first he could see nothing in the blackness below, but a new flurry of rain came, and the drops striking the water hissingly made it slightly luminous, outlining a dark, formless mass close to the side of the schooner. It moved forward slowly, its progress coincident with the movement of the man going along the rail.
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