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The column of filmy mist, the gorgeous rainbows, the stupendous cataract, leaping and snarling like a million wolves it whirled about Jimmy's brain like a wild dream of No Man's Land, and he walked beside his father in a daze of delight.
"What's all this about golden seas and aeroplanes snarling around?" "Oh, snarling.... That's just what they do," said Jay. "Let's pretend I said that." It seemed as if childhood turned its face to them again after a thousand years.
She held him with her eyes as an animal-trainer is supposed to cow his snarling, yellow-fanged captives, and in a moment Arnold, with a pettish gesture, blew out the match and shut the cigarette case with a snap. Mrs.
He was not, on the one hand, like Cobbett, an anarchist, or libeller; but yet, on the other hand, as little was he ever a lackey, cringing at the gates of Power, or a train-bearer in the retinue of Fashion. Still less was he, like Swift, the satirist of his times and of his kind, snarling at his rulers, and turning at last to gnaw, in venomous rage, his own heart.
The Mistress, by main strength, drew him, snarling and protesting, toward the safety of the house. Panting, bleeding, reeling, pitiably weak, yet he resisted the tender urging; and kept twisting his bloody head back for a glimpse of his foe. Nor was the precaution useless.
Never had he been so fond of this body of his as now when his tenure of it was so precarious. All night, with burning brands, he fought off the hungry pack. When he dozed despite himself, the whimpering and snarling of the dogs aroused him. Morning came, but for the first time the light of day failed to scatter the wolves. The man waited in vain for them to go.
"Nod or shake your head if you find your voice failing," advised Lieutenant Gordon, and the big fellow expressed his satisfaction with the arrangement by a look. "Was Mr. Cameron working at his desk when you left him?" An emphatic nod. "Then that clears Don Miguel," said Nestor. "Who next entered the room?" Big Bob glanced toward Jim Scoby, still snarling at the group. "Was Felix with him?"
Tom?" "Not now!" was the snarling answer. "I came to pay you back, as I said I would! Only for your toppling over and making the glass globe tinkle, I would have had a goldfish before this. It's all your fault, and I'm going to pay you back!" "It was not my fault!" said the Rabbit. "You knocked me over yourself with your switching tail.
Don't you feel tired, Margaret, sometimes?" "Yes I suppose I do. But it's the tiredness that comes with doing not drifting. . . . It's we who have got to make the new Heaven and the new Earth, Derek . . ." Again Vane laughed. "Still as idealistic as ever, I see. Six months after peace we shall be scrambling and fighting and snarling again after jobs and money and work."
"You are our chief, whose kingship we have held up with our lives " "What are these English to you?"... "They are the thralls your sword has laid-under, while we are of your own blood " "It is the strong will of us warriors to know what you mean " "Yes, tell it plainly!"... "We speak as we have a right." Snarling more and more openly, they surged forward, closing around the dais in a fiery mass.
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