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Slack to lay in wait for him and destroy the poor man in his bed?" shrilled the caretaker. "Watch carefully now, everybody. He might rush out of some corner at us." "Say, my transom's halfway open!" Mr. Bob Slack exclaimed. "And, by Jove, there's a light shining through it yonder from the bedroom. He's inside we've got him cornered, whoever he is." Boldly Mr.
"We do, Mr. Ricks. And last night your chief engineer, Mr. Terence Reardon, with the aid of the steward, one Riggins a British subject and unfortunately killed in the affray and Captain Murphy overpowered the German crew " "Oh, Mr. Ricks!" gasped Skinner. "Oh, Matt!" shrilled Cappy Ricks. "Oh, Cappy!" yelled Matt Peasley. "Oh, nonsense," laughed the British consul.
The editor of the Tribune halted his hand an instant, read the last lines, scratching a word and underscoring another. 'Don't care! he shrilled, as he went on writing. 'Used to slide downhill with his father. If he's got brains we'll pay him eight dollars a-week. The city editor beckoned to me and I followed him into another room.
Then, with the chance of a court before her once more, she began chattering of ceremonials and titles and etiquettes. "Praise be!" she shrilled in her high voice. "No more jiggettings and joggettings on camel back. I shall be on my own feet once more, and it shall not be my fault if His just dues are not given to the Great-in-Pomp " etc., etc. Foster-mother interrupted the string of titles.
These queer-looking, queer-sounding words, which in Arabic mean "thanks be to God," were shrilled out at the very top of Head-nurse's voice. Had she been in a room they would have filled it and echoed back from the walls; for she was a big, deep-chested woman.
Get off my ship, you lout, or I'll murder you." Mr. Gibney hung his head. "Scraggsy an' you, too, McGuffey I got to admit that this here is one on Adelbert P. Gibney. "Oh, hear him," shrilled Captain Scraggs. "One on him! It's two on you, you bloody-handed ragpicker. I suppose that other case contains opium, too! If there ain't another dead corpse in No. 2 case I hope my teeth may drop overboard."
You cannot think what, out of love for you, his lordship suffers. The Queen... "But do you say that he is here, man," her voice shrilled up in excitement. "He is below, my lady. Such is his peril that he dared not set foot in Cumnor until he was certain beyond doubt that you are here alone." "He is below!" she cried, and a flush dyed her pale cheeks, a light of gladness quickened her sad eyes.
As his eyes became accustomed to the darkness, he made out a horse in the clump of trees about twenty yards to the left. Whether it was Teddy he could not be sure, but there was no time to lose. Already a signal whistle had shrilled out from the other side of the street. Dave knew this was to warn the guards at the rear of the Legal Tender that their prey was in the open.
The split air shrieked and shrilled, a keening barrier against the avalanche of the thunder. The blast bent us far back on thighs held rigid by the magnetic grip. The pony spread its legs, dropped its head; through the hurricane roaring its screaming pierced thinly, that agonizing, terrible lamentation which is of the horse and the horse alone when the limit of its endurance is reached.
Was that man Halvor Jacobsen who is suing us second mate on the Quickstep?" "Yes, sir." "I knew it," Cappy shrilled triumphantly. "Skinner, with all your efficiency ideas, you fail to see anything remarkable in that fact. Now don't tell me you do, because I know you do not.
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