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At the same time he uttered a few words to his comrades in their own jargon, and immediately the sailor was surrounded by a dozen men whose hands were armed with glittering knives.
Brave boys! brave boys! brave boys!" He repeated the last two words again and again in a husky voice, as he shook hands heartily with each of the men in turn, and then uttered a sigh of relief as he took his place at the tiller again. "Look here, sir," he said: "I don't see that we need go on flying through the water like this.
But there was one name she refrained from mentioning that of Garth Trent, and none of Elisabeth's quietly uttered comments or inquiries sufficed to break through the guard of her reticence concerning the Hermit of Far End.
The old man uttered a cry, and turned round; then, seeing his son, he fell into his arms, pale and trembling. "What ails you, my dearest father? Are you ill?" inquired the young man, much alarmed. "No, no, my dear Edmond my boy my son! no; but I did not expect you; and joy, the surprise of seeing you so suddenly Ah, I feel as if I were going to die." "Come, come, cheer up, my dear father!
She began to speak: "You must be feeling lonesome here all alone?" "Yes," answered Foma. "And do you like our place here?" asked the woman in a low voice. "It is nice. There are many woods here." And again they became silent. "The river, if you like, is more beautiful than the Volga," uttered Foma, with an effort. "I was on the Volga." "Where?" "In the city of Simbirsk."
As it was, she sate, pale and weary-looking, on the very edge of her chair; she uttered the formal words which Philip had told her were appropriate to the occasion, and she heartily wished herself safe at home and in bed.
He was one of those few trusty and privileged domestics, who, if his master unheedingly uttered a rash thing in a fit of passion, would venture to set him right.
The horses of both officers were wounded. On the way down the northern slope of the hill, with the few Union survivors, Captain Griffin met Major Barry, and in his intense anger and grief reproached him bitterly. The latter gloomily admitted that he had been mistaken. The major uttered an imprecation.
And a shout uttered Ares against her, terrible as the blackness of the storm, now from the height of the city to the Trojans calling clear, or again along Simois shore over Kallikolon he sped. So urged the blessed gods both hosts to battle, then themselves burst into fierce war.
But presently when he spoke, he found that his uttered words were not of the high and ethical character he had planned. "She will be very much disappointed, I know," he said at last; and though he told himself that a great deal of good might be done by a little perfectly plain speaking, still he did not know how to speak it nor exactly what it would be.
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