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Pst! she had disappeared into a passage-way, the grated door of which and its bell still rattled and sounded. The young man walked back to the alley and saw the woman reach the farther end, where she began to mount not without receiving the obsequious bow of an old portress a winding staircase, the lower steps of which were strongly lighted; she went up buoyantly, eagerly, as though impatient.
The great guns roared, the bullets rattled, and presently there came an uproar which showed that the assailants had gained the fort, and the shriek and cries of the combatants, and other sounds of a desperate struggle, approached their prison. Just at that juncture the warwhoops of apparently a fresh party burst forth within the fort. The count recognised the cry as that of the Tamoyos.
The powdered mortar from under the stone at which he wrenched, rattled on the pavement to confirm his words. 'Mr Headstone 'Stop! I implore you, before you answer me, to walk round this place once more. It will give you a minute's time to think, and me a minute's time to get some fortitude together.
Matthew shouted as an afterthought, just when the cab began to move. "No. Barber's," Cyril shouted in answer, and waved his hand. The horse rattled into Fulham Road.
John is in a tight fix. Misfortune has been assailing him right and left, and he is nearly bankrupt." "Ha, ha! Serve him right," chuckled the old man. The words positively rattled in his throat. "I always told you he was a fool. I told you, but you wouldn't listen to me. You insisted upon marrying a sky pilot. Apply up there for help." He pointed to the ceiling. "Father, father, be reasonable.
Kate tried to laugh a little and to say what a long time ago it was since then. But Pete, being started, laughed uproariously, slapped his knee, and rattled on. "Up at the mill, too d'ye remember that now? Yourself with the top of a barrel for a flower basket, holding it 'kimbo at your lil hip and shouting, 'Violets! Swate violets!
Immediately the imprudent Nick was thrown violently to the ground, the houses trembled, and their shutters rattled from their fastenings. The whole town seemed falling into ruins. Nick was startled into wakefulness, and a sweet, cheery voice called, "Nick, Nick, are you going to lie in bed all day?
Say that in twenty minutes, or, at the outside, in half-an-hour, any ordinarily glib talker might have rattled through these comic recollections of Mr. Magsman, yet, when rattled through by Dickens, the laughter awakened seems now in the retrospect to have been altogether out of proportion.
He had hardly thought this before he started, for there was a sharp rap at the door, the handle rattled, and the old captain came in. "Getting up, Aleck, boy?" he said. "Ah, that's right dressed. Come along down. You must be hungry."
Phryx, my hat and staff." The storm had long been raging around the house, which stood close by the sea, and the sailcloth awning which was stretched over the impluvium noisily rattled the metal rings that confined it. Now so violent a gust swept from room to room that two of the flames in the three-branched lamp went out.
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