United States or Estonia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And I couldn't help stopping to think about the dogs I'd known and loved, the dogs who once meant so much in my life: Chinkie's Bingo, with his big baptizing tongue and his momentary rainbow as he emerged from the water and shook himself with my stick still in his mouth; Timmie with his ineradicable hatred for cats; Maxie with all his tricks and his singsong of howls when the piano played; Schnider, with his mania for my slippers and undies, which he carried into most unexpected quarters; and Gyp, God bless him, who was so homely of face and form but so true blue in temper and trust.
But the pride of learning upheld the others and they chanted in singsong chorus, swaying rhythmically the while from leg to leg: "The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart Robert Louis Stevenson." Becky's tears ceased. "Be there cows in the Central Park?" she demanded. "Sure," said Patrick.
Chrisfield felt a tremendous elation thumping stronger than the cognac through his veins. Unconsciously he put his arm round his friend's shoulders. They seemed the only live things in a reeling world. Below in the valley a house was burning brightly. From all directions came the yelp of anti-aircraft guns, and overhead unperturbed continued the leisurely singsong of the motors.
The air moved with the rushing waves which tracked the carry of each shell from our batteries, and over Ypres came the high singsong of the enemies' answering voice. As the dusk fell there was a movement out from Vlamertinghe, a movement of transport wagons and marching men. They were going up in the darkness through Ypres rations and reliefs. They were the New Army men of the West Riding.
"'Tis, too," shouted Fatty and the others together, and they repeated in one breath, as fast as they could: "'Sfathercalled andewouldn'tgo Causeeloved 'ispeanutsso." Yes, every time Jehosophat tried to tell them what it really was, they kept shouting in singsong voices, faster and faster: "Fathercalled 'ewoodengo Causeeloved 'ispeanutsso."
His life had been an abstract thinking and dreaming, idealistic, passed amid the ghosts of defunct bodies and of unborn ones. The moaning singsong of that theosophico-metaphysical monotony left on you, at last, a very dreary feeling.
Close to the ramp they stopped, and the front man, cocking his head to one side as only birds and the newly blind do, gave voice again in nasal singsong. "Will none tell me where is the great, good, wise hakim Kurram Khan?" "I am he," said King, and he stepped down toward him, calling to an assistant to come and bring him water and a sponge.
Nevertheless, this one had missed. A counter-swirl had caught Farquhar and turned him half round; he was again looking into the forest on the bank opposite the fort. The sound of a clear, high voice in a monotonous singsong now rang out behind him and came across the water with a distinctness that pierced and subdued all other sounds, even the beating of the ripples in his ears.
It was known of him that he never declined an invitation to lead in prayer, and on being asked this evening he readily complied. His voice was deep and round and mellow, and the burden of his utterances was suitable to that or any other religious occasion, being a sort of singsong tribute to the eternal glory of humility and submission to the divine will.
'What is it? said Siegmund. They were both of them sunk in their own stillness, therefore it was a moment or two before she repeated her singsong, in a little louder tone. He did not listen to her, having forgotten that he had asked her a question. 'Turn your head, she told him, when she had finished the verse, 'and look at the moon.
Word Of The Day