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"She's a thorough-bred." He said it almost challengingly. From the direction of the slough two shots sounded, presently followed by two more. Then the gleeful yipping of Tommy's Ashe's retriever, and Tommy's stentorian encouragement: "That's the boy. Fetch him." Close upon this Mr.
The Frenchman was floundering through a series of incoherent explanations "I'm going; I've got to go." "Ah, you thief, you false prophet!" shouted the ranchman in stentorian tones. But Desnoyers did not quail before the insults. He had often heard his Patron use these same words when holding somebody up to ridicule, or haggling with certain cattle drovers. "Ah, you thief, you false prophet!
"Have the horses looked to." The landlord called in a stentorian voice, and a lad came running from the rear of the premises. "Any other guests to-night, landlord?" Rosmore asked as he passed into the inn. "No, sir, and not much chance of them.
In his left hand he waved the stub of a cigar, and on his back was an admirable representation of Balaam's head, executed by some artist with billiard chalk. As the elder sang his favorite hymn, "I'm glad salvation's free," his stentorian voice awoke the echoes. Most of the company rolled upon the floor in convulsions of laughter. The exhibition came to a close by the chair overturning.
"Ronsard!" he called as loudly as he could, and again "Ronsard!" but his voice, big and stentorian though it was, made but the feeblest wail in the loud shriek of the wind.
"Thunder and ouns! Quit that, will you!" yelled Jean, "and come and answer to your name." Lapoulle rose to his feet with a dazed look on his face, then appeared to grasp the situation and yelled: "Present!" in such stentorian tones that Loubet, pretending to be upset by the concussion, sank to the ground in a sitting posture.
He turned his steps towards the Castle, and in a very few minutes found himself at its embattled entrance. The gates, of course, were fastened, but the bell-rope was hanging down, so seizing hold of that he gave it a vigorous pull. "Holloa, my hearty, what's amiss?" asked a stentorian voice. "That's the third summons to-night." "I want to see the constable of the Castle," replied the traveller.
Even our tight little frigate, as I had heard her called, looked an enormous monster when we pulled alongside, and the shrill whistle and stentorian voice of the boatswain sounded in my ears as if the creature was warning us to keep off, and I thought, if it began to move, that we should, to a certainty, be crushed.
"Yes, sir," said the chairman, pointing a finger towards him, where he sat in the front row of the gallery; "you, sir, in the flannel shirt. I can see you. Will you allow this lady to give her entertainment?" "No," answered he of the coalheaving profession, in stentorian tones.
"Just one moment," called a stentorian voice in the gallery. "You're wrong, my man, down there. I don't want to see an innocent person disgraced in public nor an officer get himself into a scrape. That man is not Nelson Sinkler." "What are we running here a state convention or a police court?" Colonel Dodd demanded, leaping up and grabbing the arm of the presiding officer.
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