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Skyrme alone had retained his presence of mind. "Forward, you knaves!" he roared furiously, "what are you staring at? Up with the flag again, and throw your grappling irons." The pirates quickly hauled up the flag, and Skyrme's stentorian voice shouted: "Forward!" A second volley thundered down upon them from the British cannon.
The youngster resumed his swollen cheek and escorted Morris up three flights of slippery brassbound stairs. Without the formality of knocking, they entered an apartment on the fourth floor where a woman stood washing dishes. "Mrs. Levin?" Morris said. The woman nodded. "I want to see your man's uncle," Morris continued. Without looking up the woman cried in stentorian tones: "Mees-taire!"
But let's try one more shout." The little sailor protested, but Mark raised his voice as loudly as he could in a stentorian "Ahoy!" and as if the occupants of the forest had kept close upon their heels there came the same sneering laugh, and the hoarse croaking cry from among the trees. "There! see what you've done!" groaned Billy. "Who's to go to sleep anywhere near here if they're arter us?"
Then with a stentorian voice the chairman announced that Captain Ellesborough from Ralstone camp had come "to tell us what America is doing!" A roar from the crowd. Ellesborough saluted gaily, and then his hands in his pockets began to talk to them.
Standing as they were, tightly pressed in between a number of different groups, their ears were assaulted by a disjointed mass of stentorian conversation that gave a singular illusion as if it all came from one inconceivably voluble source, the individuality of the voices being lost in the screaming enunciation which, as Mrs.
We said we would not, and started off home, where we both expected severe scoldings; but before we had gone fifty yards up the cliff path old Jonas hailed us with a stentorian, "Ahoy!" "What is it, father?" shouted Bigley. "Bring those boys back," roared old Jonas. "I forgot to give 'em the rope's end." I need not tell you we didn't go back.
Perceiving his embarrassment, a party of his friends down the street called out in stentorian chorus: "Ay, 't is Babbie Burns." "But what did he do to deserve the statue?" I thundered back. They hung their heads. At last my newsboy recovered himself; his face brightened. "Well?" said I again, "what did he do to deserve this statue?" "He deed!" answered the intelligent little man.
Hence it was that the object-lesson did not begin to develop until breakfast on Sunday morning. The first step in the lesson was taken at that important meal, when Master Harry observed, in stentorian yet sweetly soprano tones: "Hi wants a glarse o' milk."
Nearer still, until scarcely five feet separate him from the glowing orbs, he can even hear the animal's stentorian breathing. John prepares for a terrible struggle; he holds his hands out so as to clutch the great beast by the throat as he advances, and his muscles are strained in order to sustain the shock.
Since the schooner had cleared the inlet Captain Spade had stood in the bows gazing into the water, now to port, now to starboard, as if on the lookout for something. Presently he shouted in a stentorian voice: "Furl sail!" The sailors rushed to their posts, and in an instant the sails came rattling down and were furled.
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