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As soon as the old one perceived me running to them, it gave a shrill cry, and then floundered towards the water; as we came close together, it showed its teeth, and rose upon its flappers to defend itself and its young one, which kept close to its side; but a blow on its nose with the axe rendered it motionless, and apparently dead.
The minister, reinforcing his great and shrill voice, continued to contend against and triumph over the rising of the squall and the dashing of the rain. 'In that day ye may go thirty mile and not hear a crawing cock, he said; 'and fifty mile and not get a light to your pipe; and an hundred mile and not see a smoking house.
The air grew warmer and warmer, but no one became restless; all seemed as cool of face and body as the grey gowns and coats with grey steel buttons which they wore. At last a shrill voice broke the stillness. Raising his head, one of the Elders said: "Thee will stand up, friend." He looked at David. With a slight gesture of relief the young man stood up.
"But look! we are talking about barn-door fowls and losing chances to get lovely specimens of foreign birds and what's that?" For just then a shrill wild call rang down the lovely glade, and I thought that Uncle Dick was wrong, and savages were near. There was no occasion for alarm, the cry only coming from Ebo, who, as soon as he saw us, began making frantic signs to us to come.
In some ways, perhaps, you were right, and yet at present I find my residence here most expedient. Indeed, I find it quite impossible to leave. Frankly, gentlemen, the house is watched, and it is as much as my life is worth to stir outside the doors." "Good God!" cried Mr. Lane, in the shrill voice that fitted him so well. "We might have known it!"
From the slaves' quarters in another court-yard came confused sounds of singing hymns, with the shrill tones of the double pipe and duller noise of the tabor an invitation to dance; scolding and laughter; the jubilant shouts of a girl led out to dance, and the shrieks of a victim to the overseer's rod.
with the shrill voices of the boatmen rising to meet the cry of the startled water-fowl, the Athabascas crowded to the high banks. They grunted "How!" in greeting, as the foremost canoe made for the shore. But if surprise could have changed the countenances of Indians, these Athabascas would not have known one another when the missionary stepped out upon the shore.
With a frown Noel pulled it out again. "What's the matter with the thing?" he said irritably. "Try it the other way up!" suggested Sir Reginald. "I believe it's a hoax," said a man in the crowd. Noel turned the key upside down amid an interested silence, and began to insert it again in the lock. As he did so, there came a sudden cry from the background, a man's voice shrill and warning.
Instantly he cried out the shrill call that little birds use when they need help to drive off a hawk or a falcon. Three calls had barely sounded when all the little birds in the vicinity came shooting down to Hjälsta Bay, as if on wings of lightning.
The melancholy shrill cry of a night bird sounded overhead, and suddenly I nearly lost my balance as the piece of bank I stood upon fell with a great splash into the river, undermined by the flood. I stepped back just in time, and went on hunting for firewood again, half laughing at the odd fancies that crowded so thickly into my mind and cast their spell upon me.
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