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He would rather blow on a comb than comb his hair with it, he's always tooting on every leaf and pipe, makes triangles of broken sword-blades, and not even a kitchen pot is sate from his drumming; in short there's nothing but singsong in the good-for-nothing fellow's head; he wants to be a musician or something of the sort."
Finally, with a feat of strength that nearly forced an exclamation out of King, he lifted the great water bowl in both hands and emptied the whole contents over himself. Then be resumed his smelly garments without troubling to dry his body, and got out a Quran from a corner and began to read it in a nasal singsong that would have kept dead men awake. King lay and watched and listened.
But the callboy had again made his appearance. He was out of breath, and in a singsong voice he called out: "All to go on the stage! It's your turn, Monsieur Fontan. Make haste, make haste!" "Yes, yes, I'm going, Father Barillot," replied Fontan in a flurry. And he ran after Mme Bron and continued: "You understand, eh? Six bottles of champagne in the greenroom between the acts.
A great chunk of the shore had been bitten out by some spring freshet, and the scar was masked by elder bushes, growing down to the water in flowery terraces. I did not touch them. I was overcome by content and drowsiness and by the warm silence about me. There was no sound but the high, singsong buzz of wild bees and the sunny gurgle of the water underneath.
"None of the troubles of the seaside boarder for ours," Bobby announced, hurriedly groping amid the rubbish in her skirt pocket and bringing forth a crumpled newspaper clipping. "See here! here's one seaside visitor's complaint," and she intoned in a singsong voice the following doggerel: "'Why don't red-headed girls get tanned? Why does a collar wilt? Why is the sea so near the land?
He felt he must yell aloud with laughter. The nearest motor stopped its singsong roar, making the night seem deathly silent. Andrews jumped to his feet. The air was split by a shriek followed by a racking snorting explosion. They saw the wall above their pit light up with a red momentary glare. Chrisfield got to his feet, expecting to see flaming ruins. The village street was the same as ever.
"That's what I thought he said." Rand recognized the singsong accent he had heard on the phone. "You know him?" "Know him?" McKenna stepped aside quickly, to avoid being overrun by the two privates with the equipment-box. He sighed resignedly. "Aarvo, this is the notorious Jefferson Davis Rand. Tri-State Agency, in New Belfast." He gestured toward the Finn.
"Well, they're all sorts of knights, you know," Blake went on in the dreamy, singsong voice "fair knights and red knights and black knights, every one of them in glittering armor, with long lances, and wonderful devices on their shields " "Yes! Yes!"
"No-o," said Jimmie Dale, in a queer singsong sort of way, and his head seemed to spin dizzily around. "No I guess " He choked. "The paper it's in my pocket" and he went down unconscious on the floor of the car. When he recovered his senses he was lying on a couch in a plainly furnished room, and a man, a stranger, red, jovial-faced, farmerish looking, was bending over him.
She looked at him, with her clear, unreasoning eyes, just like the eyes of some non-human creature. 'I'll ask mother, she said. Her voice was soft-breathing, gently singsong. When she came in again: 'Yes, she said, almost whispering. 'What will you have? 'What have you got? he said, looking up into her face. 'There's cold meat 'That's for me, then.
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