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When a young man suddenly goes mad in a cab, grapples the young woman who has intrusted herself to his protection, pins her arms to her sides, squeezes her torso till her bones crunch and she has no breath to squawk with, then kisses her deaf and dumb and blind, it is still a nice question which of the two is the helpless one and which has overpowered the other.
"I bet we're going to give the Wail to the Scientist!" "Precisely, my boy!" The Phoenix beamed. "Oh, golly golly golly!" David sang as he danced around. "And I'll guarantee it, dearies!" the Banshee cackled. "One hundred per cent satisfaction or your money back!" "Defeat and confusion to the enemy!" the Phoenix shouted, giving the special squawk which was its battle cry.
He imagined some strange voice would come from the dead throat and squawk after him in horrible menaces. The trees about the portal of the chapel moved soughingly in a soft wind. A sad silence was upon the little guarding edifice. The trees began softly to sing a hymn of twilight. The sun sank until slanted bronze rays struck the forest.
I drew back, and he went up and gave the most extraordinary squawk that I ever heard. It was a pretty good password to have, for I should think no stranger could imitate it. The flap flew open again, and then some conversation ensued through the bars. "It's all right now, sir," said the guide after a minute; "you walk right in." The door was now ajar.
Master Broussel is being killed! Master Broussel is being strangled." It was Friquet's voice; and Dame Nanette, feeling herself supported, recommenced with all her strength to sound her shrilly squawk.
They introduced a new sound among their musical notes, a harsh squawk; neither dog nor negro could cross the yard without being saluted with it.
Growing careless or sleepy, or caught by a squall, he half flew, half fell from his perch. The big black cat, who every week ate his weight in young birds, pounced upon the unfortunate one, who let out a squawk of terror. Santa darted into the face of the cat with such fierce force as to rescue the baby bird, but lost his own life by his brave rashness.
Clifford knew and deplored the fact that Gethryn's "cellar" was no longer open to the public. Since the day when Rex returned from Julien's, tired and cross, to find a row of empty bottles on the floor and Clifford on the sofa conversing incoherently with himself, and had his questions interrupted by a maudlin squawk from the parrot also tipsy since that day Gethryn had carried the key.
"I don't blame you," said the latter. "I was an awful knot-head, but you taught me a lesson." "Pshaw!" The confidence-man shrugged his shoulders carelessly. "The best of 'em fall for the shells. I was up against it and had to get some rough money, but it's a hard way to make a living. These pilgrims squawk so loud it isn't safe you'd think their coin was soldered onto 'em. That's why I'm here.
They walked softly up the road. The Tinkers were still laughing and talking; the baby and the dog kept on playing. The Twins were almost by, when all of a sudden, the geese stood up. "Squawk, squawk," they cried. "Squawk, squawk." "Whatever is the matter with you, now?" said the Tinker's wife to the geese. "Can't you be quiet?" The dog stopped romping with the baby, sniffed the air, and growled.
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