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The tea over, we formed in couples, and the best man with the bride, the bridegroom with the best maid, leading the way marched in slow procession in the moonlight night to Tibbie's new home, between lines of hoarse and eager onlookers.
On the bridges and on Newcastle quay the great crowds of onlookers were thrown to the ground by the shock, and several were killed outright; whilst, far and wide, buildings were partially unroofed, windows broken, and a great and populous district reduced to the state in which one might have expected to see it after a bombardment.
The first three archers again struck true, amid the loud applause of the onlookers; for they were general favorites and expected to win. Indeed 'twas whispered that each was backed by one of the three dignitaries of the day. The fourth and fifth archers barely grazed the center. Rob fitted his arrow quietly and with some confidence sped it unerringly toward the shining circle.
They can be shattered into nothingness in the fraction of a second. Even if the vibration period were not known, it could quickly be hit upon by simply running through the gamut." "Hurrah!" cried one of the onlookers. "We have met the Martians and they are ours." Such in brief was the first of the contrivances which Mr. Edison invented for the approaching war with Mars.
And hard by the shore, at its foot, he discerned certain minute scarlet specks. What could they be? Why, of course! They were recognizable, even at this distance, as the blouses of the Sacred Sixty-three, who frequented this somewhat public spot for bathing purposes, blandly indifferent, or resigned, to the gaze of inquisitive onlookers. Mr.
To the onlookers in the neighborhood, this Armada was all-impressive. "Looks like a run on the bank," said the Boarder facetiously, as they all trooped up the steps to the big stone building. The payment was made, and the deeds drawn in the names of all the family, but to the list was also added the name of the Boarder.
Pleasingly conspicuous among a bunch of indifferent riders pacing along by the rails where the onlookers were thickest was Courtenay Youghal, on his handsome plum-roan gelding Anne de Joyeuse.
But this seemed to have been temporarily lost sight of by the little crowd of onlookers that clustered closely round us on the poop, in the absorbing interest attendant upon our endeavours to get a line on board the barque, and was only recalled to them and that, too, in a very abrupt and startling manner by the significance of the skipper's last remark.
Rachael sighed a long deep sigh, but no other answer was demanded, for the knot of onlookers welcomed them eagerly to the benches beside the courts, and even the players Gardner Haviland, Louis Chase, a fat young man in an irreproachable tennis costume; Warren Gregory and Joe Butler found time for a shouted "Hello!"
"Good luck to you!" cried several of the onlookers; a certain sympathy was evident among the crowd. Now he glides under the bridge, on towards the perilous stage of the journey all watch with eager eyes. The strange craft cleaves the waves, sending up spray on either hand but the heavy log, floating deep, hardly moves; the steersman keeps his footing steadily as on firm ground. "That's the way!
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