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Plainly she suffered from a delusion, which is very common among our people, that if a foreigner does not understand you when addressed in an ordinary tone, he will surely get your meaning if you screech at him.
The last speaker's words ended in a sort of screech of astonishment and recognition, as a hard hand was laid upon his shoulder, and Ephraim Marsh demanded, fiercely: "What's that you say, neighbor?" "Why, hello, Marsh! Where'd you drop from?" cried one, rising and extending a hand in greeting.
"It is amazing to me how a decent, respectable little woman like you can not only tell lies, but boast of it!" "Ah ha! I'm the same owld three and fourpince, an' will be till I die!" triumphed Mrs. Twomey, with another screech of laughter, removing her tiny person, her milk-pail, and her stool from under the cow.
He was so very fond of hearing about the country, about the large fields in which the blue flax and golden rye grow, about the bluish line of forest on the horizon, about the wide, wide stretches of heath, where the bees buzz busily over the blooming heather and the fen-fowls screech near the quiet waters in the evening, when the sky and the sun are reflected red in them.
Suddenly a beggarman appeared before him, so tall and big that when he got a good look at him and saw his height and length, the lad began to scream and screech. "Don't you be afraid," said the beggarman, "I'll do you no harm, I came only to beg you for a penny." "Dear me!" said the lad, "I have only three pennies, and with them I was going to town to buy clothes."
Screech Owl at last got near to the third Cree, who kept aiming his gun at him. The boy did not want to get too close, until the Cree had fired his gun, but he was gaining a little, and all the time was throwing himself from side to side on his horse, so as to make it harder for the Cree to hit him.
A slight noise was heard in the thickets, and our companion disappeared. We were listening, holding our breath, when we heard the screech as of an owl; we knew it was a call, so l'Encuerado also glided away through the bushes. "Why did M. Sumichrast call l'Encuerado?" asked Lucien, in a low voice. "Probably because he has discovered the trail of some animal."
He was swaying slowly to and fro. "Look!" whispered Kennedy. His fingers twitched, his head wagged uncannily. Perspiration seemed to ooze from every pore. His breast heaved. He gave a sudden yell ear-piercing. Then followed a screech of hellish laughter. The dance had ended, the dancers spellbound at the sight.
They kept fires burning all night to scare him out uh the coulee, and they're going to break camp to-day and hike for home. They say he give a screech that'd put a crimp in the devil himself, and went galloping off, jumping about twenty feet at a lick. And " "Aw, gwan!" protested Happy Jack, feebly. "So help me Josephine, it's the truth," abetted Pink, round-eyed and unmistakably in earnest.
She gave a frightful screech, and Clare, coming to himself, though still stupid from her blow and his own surprise, called off the dog. The woman limped raging to the house, and Clare thought it prudent to go his way. He talked severely to Abdiel as they went; but though the dog could understand much, I doubt if he understood that lecture.
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