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Knowing as he did the deadly nature of the gas from his own experience and that of his comrades, some of whom had been killed by it, Private Drew lost no time in sounding his warning to the moving picture boys. He had taken part in the raid on the Germans, had seen and engaged in some hard fighting, and had been sent to the rear with an order from his officer.
It is pleasant sculling up to a distant point, and sounding by the way so as to get off the sand and over the pebbly bottom as soon as possible.
It was more comfortable than she had dared to hope. But now an unexpected difficulty met her. Elephant declined to move! She pulled at his bridle, and he turned sluggishly, but he would not advance. Peg administered a sounding whack with the switch. She might as well have hit a neighbouring tree.
'Oho! said Ralston in his sounding bass, hoarse like the deeper notes of a reed. 'My audience! 'Will you read this, sir? Paul offered a paper-roll. The orator made a sideway skip out of the range of the tube, as if it had held an explosive. Paul's face fell woefully, and the great man laughed and clapped him on the shoulder.
These, also, were simple enough, but sounded both sweet and sensible to the listener, coming as they did from a woman's lips so tunefully, and sounding the praises of the sea, of which he was passionately fond: "I love the land where acres broad Are clothed in yellow grain; Where cot of thrall and lordly hall Lie scattered o'er the plain. Oh!
His heart was sounding hoarsely within him, like a dry pump: he heard it, so noisy and so distinct that he almost feared it might wake the sleeper. If only, after all, she had not touched the fruit! Then he took the door-handle in his clammy grasp; he had to cover it with a handkerchief to get a firm hold.
"Two large junks, sir; come down with the tide; they've put about, sir, and are going back." "Sure?" "Yes, sir, certain. Hark!" The hissing sound of the tide had recommenced, and above it we could hear the splash, splash of great sweeps, sounding hurried and irregular, as if the men at them were making all the haste they could.
"Carimata, Shaw," interrupted Lingard. "Aye, sir; Carimata I mean. I must say being a stranger hereabouts I haven't got the run of those " He was going to say "names" but checked himself and said, "appellations," instead, sounding every syllable lovingly. "Having for these last fifteen years," he continued, "sailed regularly from London in East-Indiamen, I am more at home over there in the Bay."
At the same moment that Chester fell to the ground, the clear note of a bugle rang out from the German rear, sounding the recall. The attack was to be given up. The resistance of the French had been too much for the foe.
These huge beasts make their way quite easily up rocky ascents no horse could negotiate. In coming down steep declivities, the wise creatures extend their hind-legs, using them as brakes. Cautious old Chota Begum would never ford any river without sounding the depth with her trunk at every step.
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