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"That's a bailiff," cries one of the mob: "one lawyer will always stand by another; but I think the clergyman is a very good man, and acts becoming a clergyman, to stand by the poor." At which words the mob all gave a great shout, and several cried out, "Bring him along, away with him to the justice!"

Then he gazed slowly round, till, observing the calm sea through an opening in the bushes, he started suddenly up as if he had received an electric shock, uttered a vehement shout, flung off his garments, and, rushing over the white sands, plunged into the water.

How pleasant do you think it is to have an arm offered to you when you are walking on a level surface, where there is no chance to trip? How agreeable do you suppose it is to have your well-meaning friends shout and screech at you, as if you were deaf as an adder, instead of only being, as you insist, somewhat hard of hearing?

I felt that the silk of my place of refuge was some sort of protection against this; but my own arm could alone save me from my four-footed foes. Presently my husband came in, and saluted me with a shout of laughter, which, however, abated when he saw my antagonists.

For, seeing that he meant to leap overboard, I made a start to run back to the cabin and shout to those in the boat to pick him up, when he caught his foot in a rope, and fell upon the deck with a heavy thud; and before he could rise, the man with the oilskin overcoat flung it over him, rolled him over and over in it, and extinguished the flames.

There was a shout of welcome when Winklemann's canoe was observed emerging from surrounding darkness, and a cheer burst from those who first heard the glad news "The old folk saved!" But that was a mere chirp to the roar of congratulation that rang out when the little party landed, and the rescuers strode into camp bearing the rescued in their arms.

Every nerve was tingling with excitement; an indescribable desire to fly, to shout, to race down the track to meet the train, swept through him. His heart almost stopped beating, and he felt that his face was bloodless. For the twentieth time in the last two hours Ridgeway looked at his watch and frowningly exclaimed: "Only five after two! Nearly an hour to wait!"

Simms had become interested in each other and already were looking forward to the next few days on the range together, with keen pleasure. The start was made shortly after three o'clock, the party reaching their destination well before sundown. The Pony Riders uttered a shout as they descried the white canvas top of the chuck wagon. It was a familiar sight to them.

"Now then, Jones, this is what you have to read," said Walter, who had been writing it on a slip of paper "I humbly beg Smythe's pardon for pelting him, and the pardon of all present for my abominable lies." Jones began to mumble it out, but there arose a general shout of "On your knees, White-feather; on your knees, and much louder."

Bluejackets, use your pikes and cutlashes. `Ay, ay, sir, we shout; and den up de hill we go up! up! De faster we go de better for us, for de French bullets come down peppering pretty sharp.