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In she got, and away we drove through a glare of lamps, and shop-windows, still open; gas everywhere, and cabs, busses, and carriages, still thundering through the streets. I was too tired and too depressed to look at those things. Madame, on the contrary, had her head out of the window till we reached the station.
The pond does not thunder every evening, and I cannot tell surely when to expect its thundering; but though I may perceive no difference in the weather, it does. Who would have suspected so large and cold and thick-skinned a thing to be so sensitive? Yet it has its law to which it thunders obedience when it should as surely as the buds expand in the spring.
Then he fired up and gasped and choked once or twice; and then he cooled down suddenly and laughed his nastiest laugh he was one of those men who always laugh when they're wild and said in a nasty, quiet tone: "You thundering, jumped-up crawlers! "Well, the sooner you begin the better," I said; and I chucked the boot into a corner and bolted.
McKay, ever on the alert, was not caught napping. "Throw torches away! Down!" he roared. A thundering volley crashed from the rifles of the outlaws, answered by a rattling fire from the revolvers of the Rangers. Tad heard an outlaw utter an exclamation of pain and knew that one at least of the bad men had been raked by a bullet. "Back!" came the command from the leader of the bandits.
To Kagax, who gloats over his killing except when he is afraid, it became an awful accusation. "Who has killed where he cannot eat? who strangled a brooding bird? who murdered his own kin?" came thundering through the woods. Kagax darted for his den. His hind feet struck a rotten twig that they should have cleared; it broke with a sharp snap.
We refused the marriage before the war began; we refuse it now; we would refuse it were Casimir's guns thundering without the walls." They were good courtiers these men of the Council for they sprang to their feet and cheered enthusiastically. And so the matter ended, for the time. Altogether, I was well pleased with the doings of the morning.
The Spaniards, with their bent towards the supernatural, heard in it the mighty voices of supernatural beings, announcing great events about to happen. In this they were confirmed when, next day, the battle came thundering in upon them, with all its horrors." "Is there any occasion." Dagobert said, "to go to Ceylon, or to Spain, to hear these marvellous Nature-tones of sorrow and complaining?
For an instant he could not move even his eyes. The familiarity of that whistle was terrible in its power to rob him of strength. Then he heard the rapid, heavy pound of hoofs, and again the piercing whistle. "Blanco Diablo!" he cried, huskily. He turned to see a huge white horse come thundering into the yard. A wild, gaunt, terrible horse; indeed, the loved Blanco Diablo.
He put this on the ground, rushed up to Doria, shook her by both hands, swung Susan in the air and kissed her, and was still laughing and making the welkin ring that is to say, making a thundering noise when I, having sped across the lawn, joined the group. "Hello!" said I, "how did you get here?" "Walked from the station," said Jaffery. "Came down by an earlier train.
The night mail went thundering northward, and he clutched even at the nettles which grew amongst the grass where he was crouching, as though filled with a sudden terror. Then there was silence once more silence which became deeper as the hour approached midnight. Passers-by were fewer; the birds and animals came out from their hiding places.
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