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But the doctor let my messmate's head sink down again, quickly too, for Walters uttered a thrilling moan and let his face hang down away from the doctor, looking so ghastly and strange that I was more horrified than ever in the dim cabin-light.
Perhaps everybody knew, for no one was surprised. Even Caniveau kept mum. But Belhomme began to moan again: "Oh-oh-oh! It's scratching about in the bottom of my ear! Oh, dear, oh, dear!" The coach just then stopped at the Cafe Polyto. The priest said: "If someone were to pour a little water into your ear, it might perhaps drive it out. Do you want to try?" "Sure! I am willing."
In an upper room lies Mary Sinclair. Tears are falling fast as summer rain-drops from her closed eyes; but she utters neither sob nor moan, and by the dim light of the shaded lamp she seems to the two women, who, with well-meant but officious kindness, have insisted on watching with her through the night, to sleep.
When one sleeps soundly, it is seldom that one remembers one's dreams; but when one is apt to be roused by an unexpected lurch of the ship, by the moan of a fog-whistle, or the scream of an engine, one becomes a light sleeper, and the visions of the night have a strange reality, and are easily recalled. And now the thrush always dreamt of home. "One day he was hung outside.
But for all that my pony had to do his best over the space that separated us from the picket. There were a few more shots, and always the shrill moan, but in two minutes we were behind the shelter of the little hill. I climbed up its steep side and found the handful of men, with an officer, lying among the stones on the windy height. There is no comfort in picket work.
Talk not of Jael's father. Run and play." The next morning before the rising sun had climbed above Mount Tabor, little Jesu with his peasant mother left Nazareth, carrying between them a new-made yoke. They had not yet reached the end of the footpath around the slope of the hill to the highway, when they heard a heart-sickening moan. The child stopped suddenly saying, "Something doth suffer?"
Before our bath was ended a slight change had come over the sky and sea; fleecy-white clouds scudded here and there, and a muffled moan from the breakers caught our ears from time to time. While we were dressing, a few hurried drops of rain came lisping down, and we adjourned to the tent to wait the passing of the squall. "We're all right, anyhow," said Phil Adams.
The great Falls thundered with a sullen roar. The wind beat against the forest trees with a moan. The hermit knelt once more and engaged for a long time in silent prayer; then rising, returned directly to his hut. He found little Blanche standing in the middle of the room and in the full light of the hearth, with a scared look in her brilliant, black eyes.
The answer this time was a low long-drawn moan, so exceeding plaintive and full of pain that it made Fleda shake like an aspen. But after a moment she spoke again, bearing more heavily with her hand to mark her words. "I am afraid he will be in presently he ought not to see you now Aunt Lucy, I am afraid it might do him an injury he might not get over "
In the silence which his voice had broken he heard a weak and feeble moan, which struck terror into his heart. He ran hastily down the hall, and stopped at the dining-room door aghast.
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