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Still ten feet in the lead, the black-haired one breasted the tape in a hubbub of cheers. Yet yells of disapproval could be distinguished. Bert hugged himself with joy. "Mm-mm," he gloated. "Ain't Frisco sore? Watch out for fireworks now. See! He's bein' challenged. The judges ain't payin' him the money. An' he's got a gang behind him. Oh! Oh! Oh!
Some are mites, mild and sportive; some are truculenti ferocious. Brownies, or fauni, may act in either character, as Secutores et joculatores. They rather aim at teasing than at inflicting harm. They throw stones, lift beds, and make a hubbub and crash with the furniture. Suicides, murderers, and spirits of murdered people, are all apt to haunt houses.
So the boy pulled on his cap, twisted a big scarf about his neck, and made off to the Tyne, nearly a mile away. He found a tremendous hubbub on the wharf, men pulling and struggling and cursing and fighting in vigorous fashion. What might be the right or the wrong of the quarrel, George did not know, and he had not time to inquire before he too was mixed up in the fray.
A loud hubbub of voices ensued then there was a trampling of feet, accompanied by discordant strains of music after which a momentary silence ensued, and a harsh voice asked "Why are we brought hither?" "It is not for a sabbath," shouted another voice, "for there is neither fire nor caldron." "Mother Demdike would not summon us without good reason," cried a third.
The sideboard, as was the custom then, was set out with a decanter of Madeira and one of sherry and the glasses, besides a great silver basin filled with nuts and dried fruit and another dish of crullers. On the opposite side of the hall there was a hubbub of children's voices. Madam Royall ushered Mr.
The air of the hall hummed with many-toned inattention, and the song, like a frail boat, tossed upon it in vain till it sank under the hubbub. Suddenly the old man, stricken at heart, forgot a passage, and his voice groped in agony, like a blind man at a fair for his lost leader. He tried to fill the gap with any strain that came.
"O pectorae caec ma'am, I beg you to take your elbow from my throat this minute!" But even her powerful and indignant organ was lost in the hubbub that mingled with the wild music of the guitars, to which was now added the tinkle of bells and the vehement click of a round dozen of castanets, marking the bull-fighting rhythm of a new air called "The Espada's Return to Madrid."
Madame Roguin's exclamation of surprise was lost in the hubbub and buzz of the crowd; Augustine involuntarily shed tears at the sight of this wonderful study. Then, by an almost unaccountable impulse, she laid her finger on her lips, as she perceived quite near her the ecstatic face of the young painter.
We had hardly got steerage-way when I heard a commotion aft, a choking, angry voice, that sounded through the hubbub like Silver Tongue's, a quick, fierce, violent struggle, and then suddenly the companion hatch went shut with a bang. Even as it did so the fore-hatch followed with a crash, and everybody began to cheer.
"You'd best tell 'em where you're staying, Clemmie, or you're li'ble to hear some things not intended for your ears." She bridled past him and swept into the church. There was a brief pause in the buzz, but the hubbub that followed was doubled in intensity. That evening while Miss Pipkin was placing the food on the table she appeared worried.
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