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"Not so much as a bug," replied the doctor positively. "Yet I thought when the vapour lifted a bit that I saw something moving." "When was that, sir?" "Ten or fifteen minutes back." "We'll see soon enough, sir," put in Forsythe. "The wind is driving it down to the south'ard." Sullenly, reluctantly, the forbidding mass moved across the headland. All glasses were bent upon it.
The very violence of the assault has checked its advance by piling up a mighty breakwater of boulders right across the mouth of the bay. Gathered upon sullenly firm based rocks these great round stones roll and roar and crash when the full force of the Atlantic billows comes foaming against them. They save the islands east of them.
"I can invest my money to better advantage than upon you." "Then, if you will not do that," said Eben, sullenly, "I will leave you to suggest a plan." "There is only one plan I can think of, Eben. Go back to your old place in the store. I will dismiss the Carr boy, and you can attend to the post office, and do the store work."
The surprised man obeyed sullenly, casting an anxious eye about in the slender hope of interruption, and when they reached the orchard where even that chance ended Parish Thornton spoke again: "When us two tuck oath ter sottle matters betwixt ourselves I didn't skeercely foresee what was comin' ter pass.
“Our king!” he cried. “The procurator says he is our king!” As the thunder peals, a roar surged back: “We have no other king than Cæsar.” “Think of Sejanus,” the high-priest suggested. The thrust was so well timed it told. Pilate looked sullenly about. “Fetch me water,” he ordered. A silver bowl was brought, and borrowing a custom from the Jews he loathed, he dipped his fingers in it.
A cloud of dust rising sullenly in the still air marked the approach of the column. The Huns were moving rapidly, although there were no sounds to indicate that they were fighting a rear-guard action, while there were no signs of any advance guard. "We've got them cold," exclaimed Wilmshurst, gleefully, then, "No. 1 Section, volley firing, ready."
Without expressing either surprise or displeasure at the change in Waverley's manner, Major Melville proceeded composedly to put several other queries to him. 'What does it avail me to answer you? said Edward sullenly. 'You appear convinced of my guilt, and wrest every reply I have made to support your own preconceived opinion. Enjoy your supposed triumph, then, and torment me no further.
The firing of the alarm-gun went on at intervals, low and sullenly, and their suspicions became a certainty. The sinister gentleman in cinder gray roused himself. "Is there a constable here?" he asked, in thick tones. "If so, let him step forward." The engaged man of fifty stepped quavering out of the corner, his betrothed beginning to sob on the back of the chair. "You are a sworn constable?"
It is the only way one can succeed," ventured Mrs. Brewster, more to fill up an embarrassing gap in the conversation than for anything else. John turned sullenly and stamped away. He continued down the trail to the Cliffs and was soon lost to sight. The girls then coaxed Anne to come away with them as they had a plan to ask her about. Mrs.
Two huge pine-trees preserved its memory; the wind was for ever droning and sullenly murmuring in their high gaunt green tops.
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