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"He ain't here," Blackwell called back to his accomplices. That brought Stone on the run. "You condemned idiot, he must be there. Ain't he had two hours to get here since he left Tin Cup?" They shouted themselves hoarse. They wandered up and down in a vain search. All the time Curly and his prisoner sat in the brush and scarcely batted an eye. At last Soapy gave up the hunt.
"Catch," said Josephine in a hoarse whisper, and something dropped on to Judith's bed. "Catch," came in a shriller whisper from the other side, and a second something followed. Judith groped for them in surprise and discovered a chocolate bar and a huge sticky Chelsea bun wrapped in tissue paper.
"Yes, sir," cried the boy, in a voice hoarse with emotion, "I was afraid, not last night, for I did not know he was going; but when he begged and prayed of me to run away with him, and join the people rising for the Pretender, I was afraid to go and disgrace my mother and father and myself."
If none were gone but himself, he reasoned, the schooner would have come in search of him. So, from listening for the horn of a dory, he tried to catch the hoarse voice of a patent fog-horn that would be grinding on the forecastle head. By this time the wind was a gale, and he knew it was driving him astern, despite his rowing.
In that deal box my voice took so hoarse and weird a sound that it terrified me. Oh, my God, was this thing true? I was able to walk, speak, cry out that I was living, and yet my voice could not be heard; I was entombed under the earth. I made a desperate effort to remain calm and reflect. Was there no means of getting out? Then my dream began afresh in my troubled brain.
Job Lord, in a very hoarse whisper, that he would be on hand at the time appointed. Mr. Lord patted him on the head, gave him two large sticks of candy, and, what was more kind and surprising, considering the fact that he wore glasses and was cross eyed, he winked at Toby. A wink from Mr.
The secretary regarded them both with a very favourable expression of countenance, while they gave loose to these and other demonstrations of their patriotic purpose; and was about to make some remark aloud, when Dennis, stepping up to him, and shading his mouth with his hand, said, in a hoarse whisper, as he nudged him with his elbow: 'Don't split upon a constitutional officer's profession, Muster Gashford.
Then came the hoarse roar of a speaking trumpet and I saw Resolution, his face a smother of blood, where he leaned hard by across the quarter-rail. "Stand to't, my bullies!" he roared, and his voice had never sounded so jovial. "Clear the guns, baw-cocky boys; 'tis our turn next but stand by till she comes about "
With that he burst into a roaring bacchanalian song, and continued to shout, and yell, and drink the brine until he was hoarse. But he did not seem to get exhausted; on the contrary, his eyes glared more and more brightly, and his face became scarlet as the fires that were raging within him increased in intensity. Billy clung to his father, and looked at the captain in speechless horror.
She looked up at him, and, still with the same look of stereotyped horror on her thin, white face, whispered, in a hoarse voice, as she pointed to the boarded-up shop-door with a shaking forefinger: "You daren't go in there, do you? There's a dead man in there!" Max started violently at the girl's voice. "A dead man? In there? How do you know?" In a hoarse voice the girl answered: "How do I know?
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