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I called out, 'Will some one help my children into the cars? when one of the largest, fattest men I ever saw, who was panting and puffing from his unusual efforts at hurrying, caught up my little boy, and, trotting on like an elephant, he struck his foot against a stone, and came down sprawling into the sand, uttering a great, wild cry, and giving my little boy a throw at the same time.
And you could have seen the corpuscles hurrying along so thick and fast that at times they blocked up the passages, and the current was checked till the heart could bring enough pressure to bear to burst the dam and send them rushing on again.
Bells are ringing; porters are hurrying to and fro with luggage on trucks, to the risk of passengers' shins and toes; men, women, and children, young and old, high and low, rich and poor, are mixed in confusion on the platform, some insanely attempting to force their way into a train that is moving off, under the impression that it is their train, and they are too late "after all!"
Then quickly turning he sprang into his car and started the engine. The minister stood in the moonlight looking sadly after the wayward boy whom he had loved for years. Lynn came swiftly toward her father, scarcely seeing the two strangers. She had a feeling that he needed comforting. But the minister, not noticing her approach, had turned and was hurrying into the house by the side entrance.
Put in the street, when they could no longer find five dollars for the rent of the kennel in which, for six months, they had not lived, but existed. He had just received five dollars for a piece of work, and was hurrying home with it to his sick wife, crippled mother and two children.
Subduing my astonishment, I proceeded to comply with his request, but scarcely had I lifted the lid of the box before me when he came hurrying back, flung the letter down on the table with an air of the greatest excitement, and cried: "Did I say there had never been anything like it since the Lafarge affair? I tell you there has never been anything like it in any affair.
It was at this moment that Nealie came hurrying to the door, and, sweeping the others to the right and left to make way for her, stood in front of the man, her face white as the handkerchief she held in her hand, while her breath came in troubled gasps as if she had been running until she was spent. "Whom did you say that you were?" she demanded, her voice having a sharp, dictatorial ring.
The boat was pushed near to the Tennessee shore and to the island, and put to its greatest speed. Impeded by the barge in tow, its greatest speed was slow progress, and for half an hour the gunners in the batteries watched the black night to see the hurrying Carondelet shot for an instant out of the darkness at every lightning flash.
Across, the great tongues of flame tossed themselves into the air, and glared awfully against the sky, which was dark with hurrying clouds. The underbrush was all on fire; two huge pine trees were ablaze, their branches shooting off hotly now and then like rockets. When those trees fell they would fall into the ravine. Gypsy sat down and covered her face. Little did Mr.
I have no reason to do otherwise," he said in his most insinuating tone. "It's no use your wasting words on me, Mr Gaffin; if you are going to the south'ard you had better go I am homeward-bound." "That was not a civil remark, my lad; but I will overlook it, and perhaps you will think better of the matter." "I can't think better of a bad matter, Mr Gaffin," answered Jacob, firmly, hurrying on.
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