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As soon as the black horse came within reach, she caught him firmly by the mane, and split his ear open with her knife. The horse gave a violent leap, and tore off with that shrill cry which sharp pain occasionally extorts from his kind. Quite satisfied, Colomba was making her way back into the garden, when Orso threw open his window and shouted, "Who goes there?"
It ceased and began again, as though the musicians were feeling their way, and then burst out once more into shrill defiance. It stirred Carlton with a strange turbulent unrest. From the banks the night wind brought soft odors of fresh earth and of heavy foliage. "The music of different countries," Carlton said at last, "means many different things.
Somewhere a bell rang; a nurse's skirts rustled as she passed the door. Earle sat down, his hat on his knees, staring helplessly. "F'ank?" The thin little voice on the bed was shrill and complaining. The women's heads met above it. "Mother's here. Mother's here, darling." "A playmate?" asked the doctor. Earle shook his head. "No; a dog." "F'ank?"
Jim saw the change, and, knowing what it signified, took Joe's arm as he gently urged him away. The teamster's shrill voice could be heard until they entered the fur-trader's cabin. An old man with long, white hair flowing from beneath his wide-brimmed hat, sat near the door holding one of Mrs. Wentz's children on his knee.
Suddenly a loud knocking was heard at the gate. The stick stood still upright, and there was a moment's pause in the dance. 'John Clare must come home at once, said a shrill little voice outside; 'there are two gentlemen waiting for him: two real gentlemen. 'Shall I go? inquired John.
The wind blew unequally; sometimes sweeping heavily along the ground, seeming to whisper its moanings in the cold ears of the dead, then rising in a shrill and mournful whistling, it entered the forest with a rush that filled the air with the leaves and branches it scattered in its path.
A passing instant was necessary to clear his faculties, and to recover the tenor of his thoughts. During that instant, the mate heard Jack Tier's shrill cry of "Hard a-lee get in that foresail bear a-hand in with it, I say!" The wind came rushing and roaring, and the flaps of the canvas were violent and heavy. "In with the foresail, I say," shouted Jack Tier.
Suddenly through the open French windows of the library, a shrill telephone call rang out. It came from the instrument on Buntingford's desk, and the two outside could see him take up the receiver. "Hullo!" "It's a message from Dansworth," said Cynthia, springing to her feet. "They've sent for him."
But the Blemmyes had learned to use their strength in frequent battles with the imperial troops, and so soon as they perceived that they were no match for their enemies in pitched battle, their leaders set up a strange shrill cry, their ranks dissolved, and they dispersed in all directions, like a heap of feathers strewn by a gust of wind.
The bell stopped, and the succeeding silence was harshly broken by the shrill whistle of a train. "There's the five o'clock train," said Delia to herself; "to-morrow by this time she will be here." Mrs Winn and Miss Gibbins meanwhile had pursued their way home together, for they lived close to each other.
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