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To Ebenezer, watching her, came like a haunting memory the witch's cry, "Hair, stranglin' ye God, what hair!" But he dismissed the suggestion easily and turned to Helen, smiling. "Why not bring Miss Skinner to the next musicale and have her sing?... Wouldn't you like that, Tess?" "I'd get scared stiff," gasped Tessibel, terrified.
She lifted her shaking, wizened face and thrust it so near the man that he drew back with a rough ejaculation. Then smiling a wide, toothless smile, she laid her finger on her lips. Drawing it away again, she mumbled. "Hair stranglin' 'em both, same as you, long curls like snakes stranglin' all of ye. God! what hair!" Waldstricker, with flashing eyes, suddenly got to his feet.
'Twas a quick end, and a peaceful end without no pain. And if you'd seen as many old people drag along for years, as I have, stranglin' and chokin' and half-dead, why, you'd feel to be thankful Miss Hetty was spared that. And you too!" "Marise," said Eugenia, coming to the pantry door, "your neighbors wanted me, of course, to bring you all their sympathetic condolence. Mr.
"What do you see?" burst forth the man impatiently. "Hair," cried Mother Moll, swaying nearer him, "hair stranglin' yer throat till ye can't speak, curls weavin' round yer neck like a hangman's rope." Waldstricker glanced backward at the squatter girl. She stood in rigid silence, listening intently.
"'Admired, Gandish goes on, never heeding her, 'I can show you what the papers said of it at the time Morning Chronicle and Examiner spoke most ighly of it. My son as an infant Ercules, stranglin the serpent over the piano. Fust conception of my picture of 'Non Hangli said Hangeli. "'For which I can guess who were the angels that sat, says father. Upon my word, that old governor!
When I can't hold in any longer I rolls over on a dievan that's what they call a hotel sofy an' get Cupid in my arms an' make a sound as if he was stranglin' me. Bill gets Cupid by the collar an' jerks him off, an' then I stands up an' sez in a hurt an' dignified voice, "It seems darned funny to me that I can't welcome an old friend without you interferin'."
Like a dacent Christian, he made it in the shape o' a cross, an' whin the Dey found that out he chopped the poor man's head off so he did, worse luck! but it's that they're always doin', or stranglin' ye wid a bow-string, or makin' calf's-futt jelly o' yer soles. What! `Ye don't belave it? Faix, if ye go ashore ye'll larn to belave it.
"I'd dive to the bottom o' hell to find him if I knowed he wuz thar But what's the use to talk; that devil killed him! I've waked up many a night stranglin' with a dream when I seed the drunken brute burnin' an' beatin' an' torturin' him to death. The feller you've heard about ain't him. 'Tain't no use to make me hope an' then kill me " "He's not dead, I tell you. I know."
To carry the weight of the ship it's smaller! fifty tons maximum!" "I see...," said Sally, frowning. He looked at her suspiciously, but there was no mockery in her face. "It'd take a six-hundred-ton rocket to get a full-sized man to the moon," he said with sudden flippancy, "but a guy my size could do the same job of stranglin' in a fifty-ton job.
The grand jury set special an' returned a lot of indictments an' you're one of 'em, but the districk attorney, he claims he can't go ahead until he digs up the cripus delinkty " "The what?" "Oh, that's a nickname the lawyers has got fer a pilgrim." "Wasn't one stranglin' enough for spreadin' out Purdy? What do they want of the pilgrim?"
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