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Nombre de Dios, when I was a powder-boy in the old ship Lion, the day that we engaged the Spiritus Sanctus of two tier o' guns the first time that ever I heard the screech of ball my heart never thumped as it does now. What say ye if we run back with a fair wind and broach that anker of Nants?
'Here's to your good health, Terence, says he, 'an' now pull like the very divil, 'an' with that he lifted the bottle of holy wather, but it was hardly to his mouth, whin he let a screech out, you'd think the room id fairly split with it, an' made one chuck that sent the leg clane aff his body in my father's hands; down wint the squire over the table, an' bang wint my father half way across the room on his back, upon the flure.
But it's but a bit on a pathway now; an' t' one was too oud, an' t' other too young for t' see t' water comin' along wi' great leaps; it's allays for comin' high up again' t' cliff, an' this spring-tide it's comin' in i' terrible big waves. Some one said as they passed t' man a-sittin' on a bit on a rock up above a dunnot know, a only know as a heared a great fearful screech i' t' air.
At last, at Shepard Street, she told him to turn off the South Road, and at once they were in the maze of brick and mortar that had been Clark's Field, the old Clark pasture. The bulky car had to move slowly through the narrow streets, much to the driver's impatience, and he had frequently to toot his horn or screech his raucous Claxton to warn the pedestrians to make way for the visitors.
Brock had often listened to the roar of shot and shell in target practice and sham fight, but of a cannonade of artillery, where every shrieking cannon-ball was probably a winged messenger of death, this was his first experience. He now learned that in the music of the empty shell of experiment and the wicked screech of the missiles of war there was an unpleasant difference.
And Jasper Jay was the most annoying of all, because whenever he shouted "Robber!" he always laughed so loudly and so long. His hoarse screech echoed through the woods. And the worst of it was, everybody knew what he was laughing at. Wandering through the woods one day, Fatty Coon's bright eyes caught a strange gleam from something something that shone and glittered out of the green.
"I'm Donald," she announced: and burst out with the song: "We're gayly yet, we're gayly yet; We're not very fou, but we're gayly yet: Then sit ye awhile, and tipple a bit; For we're not very fou, but we're gayly yet." She snatched up Carmina's medicine glass, and waved it over her head with a Bacchanalian screech. "Fill a brimmer, Tammie! Here's to Redshanks!"
The child's voice first reached them in a sudden screech then there was a confused noise resembling a scuffle and Jan was again heard crying aloud for help, while at the same time his voice was interrupted, and each call appeared to come from a greater distance! Something or somebody was carrying him off! This idea occurred to Von Bloom, Hans, and Hendrik, at the same instant.
"That's it that's the Banshee," whispered Sam. Caleb looked up sharply. "What is it?" queried Yan. "We've heard it a dozen times, at least." Caleb shook his head, made no reply, but turned to his Dog. Turk was lying on his side by the fire, and at this piercing screech he had merely lifted his head, looked backward over his shoulder, turned his big sad eyes on his master, then laid down again.
Pretty gave a loud screech and scratched my face something cruel. I thought she'd gone mad." "You've made a nice mess of it!" ses Bill Chambers. "Mess!" ses Henery, firing up. "Wot would you ha' done?" "I should ha' managed diff'rent," ses Bill Chambers. "Did she know who you was?" "Know who I was?" ses Henery. "O' course she did. It's my belief that Bob knew all about it and told 'er wot to do."
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