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However, we made but little progress. I had fallen asleep, when I was aroused by the voices of my companions shouting as loudly as their strength would allow. The tones sounded strangely hollow and weak. I was scarcely aware that my own voice was much like theirs. I looked up to see what had produced these shouts. A large ship was bearing down towards us from the eastward.
She had made the atmosphere of those sick wards redolent with fragrance. "Now for the boys' hats!" said Mary, "here are plenty of soldier's feathers." The boys cast down their straw-hats from the tree, shouting for her to make soldiers of them, each one clamoring for a red plume.
I heard oars on the bay; and now that the sounds of men began, the robin mounted the fence and sang his waking song. The rogue! he had been "laughing" and shouting for an hour. "Awake! awake!" he seemed to say; and on our dreamy beds we hear him, and think it the first sound of the new day.
"I'm here on business just got here," Archer explained; and, without knowing why, he suddenly began to feign astonishment at seeing her. "But what on earth are you doing in this wilderness?" He had really no idea what he was saying: he felt as if he were shouting at her across endless distances, and she might vanish again before he could overtake her.
"If the King Stir not a step till I come again! It is a command!" In a moment he had snatched up and put away an article of national importance that lay upon a table, and was out at the door and flying through the palace grounds in his bannered rags, with a hot face and glowing eyes. As soon as he reached the great gate, he seized the bars, and tried to shake them, shouting "Open!
He spent the evening of election day in the telegraph office. Report after report came in from different parts of the country. He was gaining. He was winning. After a while he knew his friends knew all Springfield knew that Abraham Lincoln was to be the next President of the United States. Outside in the streets the crowds were celebrating. They were singing, shouting, shooting off cannons.
"Run run to the road, and call for help!" gasped Caius to the children, but they only stood still. He was himself shouting with all his strength, and holding the desperate woman upon the ground, where he had thrown her. Every moment he was watching the dark water, where he thought he saw a little heap of light clothes rise and sink again further off.
Since the girl's illness he appeared to be more irritable than ever; and he had got into the way of never speaking to his wife without shouting as if he were in a rage, while she, on the contrary, would lower her voice, be gentle and conciliating, to avoid all argument; but she often wept at night after she went to bed.
Here, for a full half-hour, the French could hear them haranguing in solemn conclave. Then the two young Indians whom Cartier had brought back from France came out of the bushes, enacting a pantomime of amazement and terror, clasping their hands, and calling on Christ and the Virgin; whereupon Cartier, shouting from the vessel, asked what was the matter.
The committee-men fled in different directions, shouting for Mr. Paul, and Mr. Paul arrived beaming with delight and moisture, and presented a huge bouquet to Mrs. West, and welcomed her friends with hospitable warmth. Mrs.
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