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And his motto was, "Shun a Radical as you do the devil!" and he was very glad to see them all there very glad; and he wished to give them a toast, "The Queen! God bless her!" and wait a minute! with her Majesty's name to couple he was sure that gracious lady would wish it that of "Owd Bob o' Kenmuir!" Then he sat down abruptly amid thundering applause.
A grip of iron had closed suddenly round each of my ankles, and there in the light of the fire I saw two hands which, even in that terrified glance, I perceived to be covered with black hair and of an enormous size. 'So, my friend, cried a thundering voice, 'this time, at least, we have been too many for you.
One of the traders' whale-boats was lying close to, and the chest was, by the merest chance, dropped into her just as the brig came down again on the coral boulder with a thundering crash and smashed a big hole into her timbers under her starboard counter. In a few minutes she began to fill.
Louder and louder rolled the music he drew from the keys; now it burst forth into a tremendous jubilee, then again it died away in melancholy complaints and gentle whispers, and again it broke out into a swelling, thundering anthem. At length Haydn concluded with a sonorous and brilliant passage, and then with youthful agility jumped up from his seat.
Away to the eastward the night express came thundering on, and one of its passengers, looking from his window, saw the lurid blaze, just as once before he had seen the bonfire crazy Nina kindled, and as he watched, a horrible fear grow strong within him, manifesting itself at last in the wild outcry, "'Tis Grassy Spring, 'tis Grassy Spring." Long before the train reached the depot, Arthur St.
"To the northward advanced, in serried columns of black, the beetling clouds that were turning the day into night, the distant booming of aërial artillery thundering forth the preluding cannonade of the charge.
Alice was in one boat, well up in front beside the captain-owner, while Ruth occupied a similar position in the other craft. "You may start, if you please," said the manager, with a nod at Russ and another at the skippers. A moment later the air was filled with the thundering, rattling exhaust of the motors as the boats swept away from the float. The motor race was on.
The President saw squads of police reserves, who had been for the past six months arresting pickets for him, battling with a crowd that was literally storming the theatre in their eagerness to do honor to those who had been arrested. Inside there was a fever heat of enthusiasm, bursting cheers, and thundering applause which shook the building.
But he seemed no longer the bold and tranquil patriot. He was surrounded by shrieking female forms, clinging to his knees; and his trembling hands were lifted to heaven, as if imploring its pity. "Stop!" cried Wallace, in a voice whose thundering mandate rung from tower to tower. "The instant he dies, Lord Aymer de Valence shall perish!"
This, and not the empty forts, not even the busy guns, was the wall that defended France, this line of men. If it broke there would come thundering down again out of the north all the tornado of destruction that had turned Northeastern France into a waste place and wrecked so much of the world's store of the beautiful and the inspiring.
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