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The action of those on the border of the living mass in perpetually moving round in a circle with dolorous bellowings, was like that of the women in an Indian village when a warrior dies, and all night they shriek and howl with simulated grief, going round and round the dead man's hut in an endless procession. The "bull and red rag" instinct, as it may be called, comes next in order.
I must examine this bed, in a word; papers may be hidden in a bed as elsewhere; we know that very well, and " Here it was her ladyship's turn to shriek, for the Captain, with his fist shaking the pillows and bolsters, at last wrenching away one of the pillows, said, "Look! did not I tell you so? Here is a pillow stuffed with paper.
I'll make it as glorious as a Catalina sunset." As she swung the car around the sharp curve at the boulders she looked back and laughingly waved her hand at Peter, and Peter experienced a wild desire to shriek lest she lose control of the car and plunge down the steep incline. A second later, when he saw her securely on the road below, he smiled to himself.
That is why she did not see what was presently to happen. Just as Molly placed her foot on the first rung of the ladder, a firm hand grasped her arm. Why she did not shriek aloud with all the power of her lungs she never knew, but she remained perfectly silent while a voice and it was Miss Walker's voice said in her ear: "You will say nothing about this to-night.
I know not whether he might then have intended to call Heaven to witness his innocence of the crime, or whether he might have designed to strike my father; for I sprang from my seat prepared to rush between them, and implore them for my sake, to desist; but my strength failed me, and, with a shriek, I sunk back in a fainting fit. "Oh, the horror of my awakening!
I shuddered, and my blood ran cold at the sound. I entertained no doubt but that it was the stroke of a hatchet on the head or breast of the helpless sleeper. It was followed by a loud shriek. The continuance of these shrieks proved that the stroke had not been instantly fatal.
The girls listened, and Dick, chalky white, with his mouth open, as Paul had seen him on his way through. They heard the swish, swish, swish of the tawse, and not another sound but hard breathing for a full minute; then Paul began to groan, and then to shriek. 'Now, panted Armstrong, 'shall I have the truth?
This time they deployed in line of battle and commenced a fierce fire on the opposing divisions; accompanied by yells peculiar to themselves such as no other civilized troops in the world have ever uttered not a hurrah, a cheer, or even a roar, but a shriek as dissonant as the Indian war-whoop, and more terrible.
Her face tightened with rage. She leaped at him, shook him by the shoulder, and her voice came in a shriek: "Now that's enough. I'm through. You did mean to insinuate I was out with men. I wasn't but that was just accident. I'd have been glad to, if there'd been one I could have loved even a little. I'd have gone anywhere with him done anything! And now we're through.
But with a wild shriek the new-made widow went into strong hysterics; and, resuming her self-control, the little girl left the dead to wait upon and console the living parent.
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