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"Good night, boys!" said Peter's voice from under the covers. "Good night," called back everybody but Jacob, who already lay snoring beside the captain. "I say," shouted Carl after a moment, "don't sneeze, anybody. Ludwig's in a fright!" "No such thing," retorted Ludwig in a smothered voice.
His head quakes and vibrates, his face grows black, the mouth opens into a parallelogram, the sharp little tongue plays about the mass of black tobacco. The convention leaps to its feet. The Sneeze has come. "That settles it!" cry the delegates. "Bounce any man that'll do such a thing as that! Fire him out!" The irresistible movement has reached Corkey's eyrie.
Lavender let himself slowly down till he could sit. "Pan is dead," he said, as he arrived on the grass and crossed his feet, "and Christ is not alive. Moon-cat!" The little cat had put its head into his hand, while Blink was thrusting her nose into his mouth. "I'm going to sneeze!" whispered the old lady, strangely affected.
It seemed like a sneeze. For the rest, she remained as motionless and expressionless as bronze Buddha, her wonderful orbs scowling at the wild cat. Then that cat got off that slab of rock. I say got off, but it would be more correct to say that he slid off sideways on his tummy flat. One had difficulty in seeing that he moved.
I heard a real live sneeze just as plain as anything," and Betty looked up to the green roof above her, as if the sound came from that direction. A yellow-bird sat swinging and chirping on the tall lilac-bush, but no other living thing was in sight. "Birds don't sneeze, do they?" asked Betty, eying little Goldy suspiciously. "You goose! of course they don't." "Well.
We could sneeze and cough, and be dead dogs, and say our prayers, and stand on our heads, and mount a ladder and say the alphabet, this was the hardest of all, and it took Miss Laura a long time to teach us. We never began till a book was laid before us. Then we stared at it, and Miss Laura said, "Begin, Joe and Billy say A." For A, we gave a little squeal. B was louder C was louder still.
Almost immediately afterwards some loud sneezes were heard, and looking to the right they caught sight of a troop of mingled gnus and quaggas, passing and repassing without a pause. Every now and then a gnu would rush out from among the crowd, whisk his tail, give a sneeze, and then rush back again amongst his comrades.
He is troubled to account for the existence of the cat. An Ottoman legend relates that when the animals were in the Ark, Noah gave the lion a great box on the ear, which made him sneeze, and produce a cat out his nose.
At this moment a sneeze of tremendous strength and loudness was heard immediately outside the door; a sneeze which made the hair of the baronet almost stand on end. "What the devil is that?" asked the squire. "By the great Boyne, I fear some one has been listening after all."
She worshiped her with the solicitous, over-anxious care that saw fever in the healthy flush of youth, regarded a sneeze as premonitory of consumption, and waited with dark certitude for the "something dreadful" that instinct told her was ever about to happen to her darling.
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