United States or Portugal ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There was a scurry and a cry, and a moor-hen dashed out from under cover, and sped across the pond, scattering the silver points that hung there motionless, reflected from the heaven overhead. Chris was soon ready, and stood there a moment, a pale figure in the gloom, watching the shining dots rock back again in the ripples to motionlessness. Then he lifted his hands and plunged.
The battle lasted well until noon, and having accomplished our work we got a "Stand down!" after which came the usual hurry and scurry to clean and oil our pet and get her all in readiness for the next act. There was still some ammunition left lying on the ground that had been spilled, and we were instructed to gather it in at once, clean and oil it and put it in the gun pit.
As a little chick will sometimes seize a large crumb and scurry off, followed by the flock, so a fish would sometimes snatch a morsel and fly, followed by the school. If he dropped it or stopped to enjoy his bonne bouche, his mates would be upon him. Sometimes two would get the same morsel, and there would be a trial of strength, accompanied with much flash and glitter of shining scales.
Remembering at last the collie's presence in that mass of darkness, Gavin shouted: "Bobby! Bobby Burns! Take him!" From somewhere in the gloom, there was a beast-snarl and a scurry of clawed feet on the polished floor. At the same time the front door flew wide.
Grandfather Fortuny and the gentle old priest leaned out over the stone window-sill and laughed to see the boy scurry down the street. Then the priest went his way. Grandfather Fortuny waited, looking out of the window, for the boy to come back. The boy did not come. He waited. Lights began to flicker in the windows across the way. A big red star came up in the West. The wind blew fresh and cool.
"It will be a lark, at all events." "Then we will go this very afternoon," she said, with enthusiasm. My ridiculous heart gave a great leap. "This very afternoon," I said, managing my voice very well. She arose. "Now I must scurry away. It would not do for Mr. Bangs to find me here with you. He would be shocked."
Prompt upon this came a flutter and scurry of wings in water, and a wild quacking, as a bevy of ducks dashed for shore. A casement window was thrust open on the far side of the stream. A woman's voice shrilled "That's you, is it? Oh, yes you Penhaligon children!
It was the look in Hetty's eyes that did it. In them he saw the Jolly Roger fly to the masthead and an able seaman with a dirk between his teeth scurry up the ratlines and nail it there. But as yet he did not know that the cargo he carried was the thing that had caused him to be so nearly blown out of the water without even a parley.
And when we see that gizzard-and-crossbones figured out on the truck from the ranch we knowed old Pinto was goin' to eat up miles that night instead of grass. You remember Scurry that educated horse-wrangler we had the college fellow that tangle-foot drove to the range?
Church functions, with the scurry to go at all, or to obtain a seat, fine music, grand sermons, religious meetings, entertainments for the poor, lectures, lessons, exhibitions, rides, drives, kettle-drums, garden-parties, concerts, theatres, operas, balls, chattering, laughing, discussing, reading up current subjects, enjoying attention, excitement as to what should be done and how, one thing drove out another in perpetual succession, and the one thing she never did or could do was to sit still and think!
Word Of The Day