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"Great Scott, how I wanted to!" replied Ben between his teeth, his fists clenched; "but she wouldn't let me. There's something there we've got to find out. She shook her head and signaled me to do nothing. He told her to bid me go away and she obeyed him. Oh, Miss Upton, how she looked! The most beautiful thing I ever saw in my life, but the most haunted, mournful, despairing face "
Shirley unostentatiously signaled for an encore on the refreshments. "You're nervous to-night, Captain. You've been doing things before you consulted me which is against our Rule Number One, isn't it?" The Captain gulped down his whiskey, and rubbed his forehead. "Couldn't help it, Monty. It got too busy for me, before I realized anything unusual in the case.
He signaled to the engine room to reverse and blew short, sharp shrieks of warning. Already deckhands and officers, scantily clad, were appearing from fore and aft. "Men overboard two of 'em!" explained Elliot in a shout from the boat which he was trying to lower. The first mate and another man ran to help him. The three of them lowered and manned the boat.
So if you moving picture folks level it for me I may be able to raise some crops on it. Shoot as much as you like. You can't hurt that hill!" The men at the gun signaled that they were going to fire no more that day, and then, as it was safe, the young folks made a trip to see the extent of damage caused by the shells.
The barbarous cat, as it was called, once in use on our ships, was brought, and Captain Haley signaled to one of the sailors to approach. "Bates," he said, in a tone of authority, "give that boy a dozen lashes." Bates was a stout sailor, rough in appearance, but with a warm and kindly heart.
The sudden break in Timothy Dowd's chatter was caused by the hailing of some fellow workmen who had rumbled up to them a hand-car over a near-by track and had signaled him to join them. "For it's not down track but up you're to go, Tim, the washouts bein' worst beyond. Step aboard, we've to hustle."
"This is our only newspaper and I can't read it," he said when Mortimer had finished. "What's the news?" "There's a lot of it, and it's heavy with importance," replied Mortimer. "Tell us a bit of it, can't you?" "Sheridan has left his army and gone north. That's one bit." "What?" "It's so. We know absolutely, and we've signaled it to General Early. But we don't know why he has gone."
Fringed with pines, whose crests fingered most delicately the sky, they almost seemed to move upwards as the light faded about to weigh anchor and navigate the pathways of the heavens instead of the currents of their native and desolate lake. And strips of colored cloud, like flaunting pennons, signaled their departure to the stars.... The beauty of the scene was strangely uplifting.
The storekeeper was used to giving much longer credit than Geoffrey wanted, but the glance he cast at the applicant was not reassuring, and it is possible he might have refused his request, but that, unseen by Thurston, Bransome signaled to him from behind the barrel. "We don't trade that way with strangers generally," the storekeeper answered.
Imagine to yourself that we are two boats that have met when becalmed, have signaled each other, have exchanged greetings, have wished each other good luck, and afterwards have continued on our way, perhaps never to see each other again." Ferragut shook his head negatively. Such a thing could not be, he could not resign himself to losing sight of her forever.
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