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And very quietly he smelled the air and read the message it bore of a strange god's presence. And to his ears came sounds of the strange god's movements. White Fang burst into no furious outcry. It was not his way. The strange god walked softly, but more softly walked White Fang, for he had no clothes to rub against the flesh of his body. He followed silently.
Her birthday was in October, and when she appeared that morning with a zodiac ring on her little finger, set with a brilliant fire opal, there was a mingled outcry of admiration and horror. "Oh, I wouldn't wear an opal for worlds!" cried one superstitious girl. "They're dreadfully unlucky."
But she spoke softly again, tremulously, and in English: "You will find my jewels on the dressing table. Take them and go You will not hurt me?" "I am not here to do you injury, but to serve your Princess, "whispered the man. "For God's sake, do not make an outcry. You will ruin everything. Will you let me explain?" "Go! Go! Take anything! I can be calm no longer.
Dobson, seizing the child's hand in his own left, compressed it still tighter, drew his hunting-knife, and sliced off the reptile's head, just as Edwin Brook with his wife and daughter, attracted by the nurse's outcry, rushed from the cottage to the rescue. Scholtz and George Dally at the same time ran out respectively from stable and kitchen.
His outcry had brought up Cousin Maud, and when she opened the door behind him and saw a man standing in my way, she clutched him from behind, throwing her arms about him, and dragged him out of the chamber. Meanwhile she shrieked aloud "Fire!" and "Murder!" and again "Fire!" and all the men and wenches ran up in hot haste and had the gold-maker down the stairs fast enough.
The moment of his overtaking the Nibelungs is indicated by their sudden distant outcry. Mime has been left crouching and whimpering on the rocky floor. Thus Wotan and Loge find him. Loge is in all the following scene Wotan's very active vizier, furnishing the invention and carrying out the stratagems.
He had expressed with great energy his private opinion that the ancient religion would perish if the machinery of persecution were taken away; yet he now for the first time seemed to hear or to heed the outcry of a whole nation, and to tremble at the sound.
The by-ways which I had trodden were utterly deserted; I was far from the lighted high road, and the only signs of human activity that reached me came from the adjacent river; therefore, when presently an outcry arose from somewhere on my left, for a moment I really believed that my imagination was vividly reproducing the episode of the night before!
When he plopped into the water the commotion was like tossing a barrel overboard, but nobody sounded an alarm. They clung to the rusty rudder chains and listened. The ship was all quiet. Then out into the mist they launched themselves, swimming almost submerged, dreading to hear an outcry and the spatter of musket balls.
This was not done, because it was possible though most improbable that the Spanish squadron might attempt one of our own ports; because we had not perfect confidence in the harbor defences; and because, also, of the popular outcry.
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