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His nap had probably lasted a good while, when the cup chanced to graze against a rock, and, in consequence, immediately resounded and reverberated through its golden or brazen substance, a hundred times as loudly as ever you heard a church-bell. The noise awoke Hercules, who instantly started up and gazed around him, wondering whereabouts he was.
Railway stations were filled with throngs intent on escaping from the coming disaster, commandos of breathless and blood-stained burghers entered the city, and soon the voice of the conquerors' cannon reverberated among the hills and valleys of the capital.
"Give the mate a call," I said to the young man who stood at my elbow as still as death. "And turn all hands up." My tone had a borrowed loudness reverberated from the height of the land. Several voices cried out together: "We are all on deck, sir." Then stillness again, with the great shadow gliding closer, towering higher, without a light, without a sound.
The overheated little town of gray stones and red tiles was drowsing away its provincial afternoon under a blue sky. Far off the loud blows of some coopers hooping a cask, reverberated regularly between the houses. The general dragged his left foot a little in the shade of the walls. "That damned winter of 1813 got into my bones for good. Never mind. We must take pistols, that's all.
On week-days a cart sometimes passed through Villeneuve with a most disproportionate banging over the cobble-stones, but usually the walls reverberated the soft tinkle of cow-bells as the kine wound through from pasture to pasture and lingered at the fountains.
Thousands of marines and blue-jackets, formed into landing parties, had been set upon shore and were now taking formal possession of the German stronghold. "Hurrah for the Monitor!" the cry reverberated over the waters as the plucky American submarine was made fast alongside the U.S.S. Chicago and the story of her night's exploits became heralded about.
"He says you'd better play the organ, Bubbles, and let him do the stalking. The monkey knows him." "By Jove, he's quite right," said Sir Christopher from the landing. "Take it, Bubbles, at once." "My God!" said Lord Lundie in horror. The chase reverberated over our heads, from the attics to the first floor and back again.
Without much warning the storm burst forth; peals of thunder reverberated through the air, flashes of forked lightning played in the sky. Lionel hastened upstairs; he remembered how these storms terrified his wife. She had knelt down to bury her head amidst the soft cushions of a chair when Lionel entered her dressing-room. "Sibylla!" he said.
French, and from him she had had no word or sign for several months. It was on one of these depressing evenings, while she was boiling an egg in the kitchen, that the ringing of the door-bell reverberated with an uncanny sound through the empty apartment. Spurred by an instinctive fear of a telegram, she ran to open the door, and found Dr.
The surface water had increased in depth, and the ice, assailed from above and below, was struggling to tear itself from the grip of the shores. Fissures reverberated into life before their eyes, and the air was filled with multitudinous crackling, crisp and sharp, like the sound that goes up on a clear day from the firing line.
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