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Then the motionless occupants of the boat heard random, guttural grunts, a smashing of dead branches, crashing of undergrowth, and the proud ring of mighty antlers against the trees. The lord of the forest, a big bull-moose, was tearing recklessly through the woods towards the lake, in answer to the call of his imaginary mate.
Anderson had slipped his cable. Then the chime of the telegraph on the bridge was followed almost instantly by the first smashing stroke of the propeller. The Esmeralda was under weigh! The Esmeralda was putting out to sea when I thought of a last expedient to draw the attention of her captain.
"You have picked up quite an education since you left the road and the tan," he said with the look of one who delivers a smashing blow. "I am not yet educated enough to know how you get other people to commit your crimes for you," she retorted. "Who commits my crimes for me?" His voice was sharp and even anxious. "The man who told you I was once a Gipsy Jethro Fawe."
Behind them was a line of cannons, the Serbian engineers were hard at work, smashing off their sighting apparatus, destroying the breech blocks, and jagging the lining with cold chisels. Some of the cannon were Turkish.
The crowds seem very remote there under the glass. One feels like smashing something getting down to closer terms with them one longs for a Department Store or a bridge or a 'bus something that rattles and bangs and is. All the while outside the mighty street that huge megaphone of the crowd, goes shouting past. One wishes the House would notice it. But no one does.
The old-time miner was rather in the habit of smashing the unoffending lamp-post that barred his straight progress to the "pub." where his favorite brand of fire-water was on tap. The Bendigoans will never forgive me for having failed to appreciate the fact that their Golden City was far ahead even of Melbourne.
The Laramie plains were alive with darting, yelling, painted horsemen, circling about the ranch, hemming it in, cutting it off from the world. The bullets came whistling through the morning air, biting fiercely into the solid logs, spattering the chinking, smashing pane after pane.
She was sitting up in a nest of pillows and a rose coloured kimono was draped round her bound-up arm. But she waved the other hand gaily as Bob dashed into the room. "Well, old girl," he cried, "this is the limit! The idea of your smashing yourself like this! Here I've played every old kind of ball and everything else and never broke one of my two hundred and eight blessed bones!
A bevy of good-humoured youths were flirting with his daughters just then, while papa was smashing flies on the wall at intervals, smiling complacently whenever one of his daughters, startled by an extra loud bang, gave a little shriek, when a knocking was heard at the door.
And when that chance came he took it so suddenly and so unexpectedly that not one of the hard-breathing, silent crowd around him saw exactly how he gained his hold. One moment he was avoiding a smashing, right-handed blow; the next he had his adversary locked in a grip of iron, the while he bent and strained for the mastery.
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