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It was answered instantly by a grunt and a jump beyond the windfall and then the crashing rush of a bear up the hill, carrying something that caught and swished loudly on the bushes as it passed, till the sounds vanished in a faint rustle far away, and the woods were still again. All night long, from my tent over beyond an arm of the big lake, I heard the mother calling at intervals.
Then, lying flat on his face, he gave himself up for dead, while a thin hail of lead chopped and swished the bushes close on his right hand; afterwards he delivered his speech shouting, bent double, dodging all the time in cover.
After Virginia came the twins, who were usually called 'The Stars and Stripes, as they were always getting swished. They were delightful boys, and with the exception of the worthy Minister the only true republicans of the family. As Canterville Chase is seven miles from Ascot, the nearest railway station, Mr.
Then breathless voices rose, and skirts swished and French heels tapped the polished floor and solemn subalterns stalked about seeking ices and lost buckles and mislaid fans; and a faint voice said, "Oh!" when a jewelled garter was found, and a very red subaltern said, "Honi soit!" and everybody laughed. Presently I missed the General, and, a moment later, Dorothy.
All day they stayed there, idle, useless, on the shaded veranda above the street; and then, when the sun was low, they came forth like indolent butterflies to float up and down the street. They sauntered by in pairs, half-hidden beneath silk parasols, and their skirts swished softly as they passed. Rimrock eyed them sullenly, for a black mood was on him he was thinking of his lost mine.
For several seconds Koppy held the coward's faltering eyes, then turned with disgust to the others. "What will we do with him?" Morani's knife slid down his wrist and swished across his boot leg. And the others looked agreement. Werner shuddered began to bluster. "You asked what I thought. I told you. I didn't mean to give the whole thing up not much I didn't."
A surge of brown and pink and cream, and a dozen rainbow tints flashed past her; a long boot brushed her saddle on the off side. There was a sickening sound, as something hard swished and whicked home; her pony reeled from the shock of a horse's shoulder, and none too gently none too modestly the prince with the egret and the handsome face reined in on his horse's haunches and saluted her.
A horse, meditating in the shade of one of the hickories, lazily swished his tail. The warm sunshine made an oblong of vivid yellow on the floor of the grocery. "Could you see the whites of their eyes?" said the man, who was seated on a soap box. "Nothing of the kind," replied old Henry warmly. "Just a lot of flitting figures, and I let go at where they 'peared to be the thickest. Bang!" "Mr.
She was out of breath and rather pale through being lifted up and swished through the air so suddenly, but her saucer eyes and her funny mouth looked as cheerful as ever. "Good gracious, if you knew what I have just heard!" she said. They all scrambled up and called out together. "Hello! What is it?" "The nurse said the most awful thing," she answered them.
If the wind and cold had not made Carley so uncomfortable she might have found the scene picturesque. How black the night! She could scarcely distinguish the sky at all. The cedar branches swished in the wind, and from the gloom came a low sound of waves lapping a rocky shore. Presently Glenn held up a hand. "Listen, Carley!" he said.
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