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The storm-cloud was now ripped and torn by lightning, and deep rumbling peals of thunder came to our ears all the time louder and nearer.
Johnny Cricket had just dozed into dreamland when he was awakened by something pounding ... ever so loudly ... and he slipped out of bed and into his two little red topped boots and felt his way to the crack in the living room wall. Johnny heard loud voices and merry peals of laughter, so he crawled through the crack and looked out into the fireplace.
Some pretended that they could not awake in time to get ready for his early services; he responded by going out himself with a bell and sounding such clashing peals in various parts of the parish that there remained no shadow of excuse for their sleeping after 5 a.m.!
The next moment, the party who had left them so mysteriously rushed out from behind every bush and tree, and united with the rest in long and merry peals of laughter. It was all a sham, and Toby, who was quite out of breath with excitement, was much incensed at being made a fool of.
As fast as poor mother saved up and bought some he broke it, so after a while she stopped. I've brought the clock." "Ah!" cried Don gaily "the clock. Good. That's a start. You will at least know at what time to rise in the morning." "I shall," agreed Flamby "from the floor!" The fascinating dimple reappeared in her cheek and she burst into peals of most musical laughter.
I therefore climb, not without trepidation, those ninety-three stairs to the very summit of the old palace, and presently find myself ushered into the familiar twilight. Nichol being engaged upon "house-accounts." This time, as I enter the studio, she is playing cards with a pretty handmaiden, amid peals of laughter. She often plays cards.
The Tower guns were again fired, the church-bells rang merry peals, flags were hung out from all the public buildings. A few days afterwards the Queen conferred on Lord Palmerston the Order of the Garter a frank and cordial acknowledgment of his services, which the high-spirited statesman received with peculiar pleasure.
So bold a venture! continued Mrs. Dusautoy amid peals of laughter. 'What is there to laugh at? said Mr. Dusautoy, putting on a look between merriment and simplicity. 'What else could I have done? I should have done the same whoever I had met. 'Ah! now he is afraid of your taking it as too great a compliment!
The peals fearfully loud. Magnificent clouds at sunset. "15th. A tiger-wolf broke into the kraal last night, and killed several sheep. "22nd. A wolf-trap constructed, with the aid of the Hottentots, of large stones and timber. "29th. A wolf caught in the trap. "December 4th. A heavy rain for three days swells the river to an unfordable size. All the dry beds of torrents filled with furious floods.
He rose and flung himself, worn-out, upon his hard pallet, and, seeming to slumber, dreamed again within his dream. Once more in the vast cathedral, with throngs of the living choking its aisles, amidst jubilant peals from the cavernous depths of the great organ, and choral melodies ringing from the fluty throats of the singing boys.
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