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I shrieked loud and long, but in the noise of the city no one heard me, and all the good it did was to ease my own mind. New York is a good place to come to, to be amused, or to spend money, but as a city of terrific and unnecessary noises, there is not one in the world which can compare to it.
Ye could hear noises comin' fum da like distress, and dem sounds war jined wid de talkin' ob men." "Very likely, but such sounds came from persons on the island, and they were living, just as you and I are." "Dar war sounds," answered my boatman, "but da warn't no people on dat island. Dem sounds warn't ob dis world."
"Very well, my Lady," was the answer, in a tone just like that in which Lady Barbara said "Oh!" And the door stayed open; but Kate could not sleep. There seemed to be the rattle and bump of the train going on in her bed; the gas- lights in the streets below came in unnaturally, and the noises were much more frightful and unaccountable than any she had ever heard at home.
Hour after hour he lay listening to mysterious noises, strange crackings and creakings through the desolate house; sometimes he imagined the sound of footsteps in the bare rooms below; even hushed voices, from he knew not where, chilled his blood at midnight.
As the winter came on, bringing with it the long dark evenings, the old house became more lonely than ever, and an air of mystery and dread seemed to hang over it and brood in its empty rooms and dark corridors. The deep silence of night was broken by strange noises for which neither the wind nor the rats could be held accountable.
Even now that years have passed since that time, I am undecided as to that point; and therefore I trust that I may be pardoned if I was wrong in doing so, when I had no time for reflection. When the black saw me move, he made various strange noises, to call my attention to his condition.
The air in the water moves against these delicate blood vessels, which are able to take what they need the oxygen from it. Thus the fish uses gills instead of lungs for breathing. Sometimes, fishes pick up pebbles in their mouths and drop them again. Some fishes, but not goldfishes, make noises. The adaptation of the fish to its surroundings is interesting.
Perhaps Stephen knew more about the world; perhaps during the years that he had been tumbled and knocked about he had realised that the world was no easy nut to crack and that loaves and fishes don't come to the hungry for the asking. But Peter that night was to be appalled by nothing. They sat up into the early morning, talking. The noises in the house and in the streets about them rose and fell.
"But they were so greedy; they were worse than little piggies," said little Roderick; "they made such funny little noises all the time they were eating." "But," continued Wenonah, "that sound of theirs seemed to call the old bears, that we had not yet seen. They came rushing through the bushes, and we were so frightened we could not even cry out or let go of our baskets.
There are noises there as if the ship were going to pieces. . . Captain Harry thinks: Nervous; can't be anything wrong with the door. But he says: Thanks never mind, never mind. . . All hands looking out now for the life-boat. Everybody thinking of himself rather. Cloete asks himself, will they miss him? But the fact is that Mr.
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