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"Ghostly servants are all asleep," said Meagle gravely, "but I'll wake them up before I've done with them. It's scandalous keeping us out here in the dark." He plied the knocker again, and the noise volleyed in the emptiness beyond. Then with a sudden exclamation he put out his hands and stumbled forward. "Why, it was open all the time," he said, with an odd catch in his voice. "Come on."
His opponent then attempts to return the serve that is, to strike the ball either on the fly or the first bound and knock it back over the net somewhere within the playing space as determined by the lines. In this way the ball is volleyed or knocked back and forth until one of the players fails either to return it over the net or into the required space.
Wingle, Bud Shoop, and several of the men were holding a heated conference with old man Loring when Sundown dashed into the Concho. Trembling with rage and fear he leaped from his horse. "They killed the boss!" he cried hoarsely. "Up there in the woods." "Killed who? Where? Slow down and talk easy! Who's killed?" volleyed the group. "Me boss! Up there on the trail with his head bashed in!
Her guns spoke together; and at the same time something slim and long cut cleanly through the water and passed by, missing the Firefly's side so narrowly that the boys felt their knees weaken under them. The periscope shook as the guns volleyed again, wavered uncertainly, and sank from sight. "We hit her!" said Beany at the rail.
For some time Alan volleyed upon the door, and his knocking only roused the echoes of the house and neighbourhood. At last, however, I could hear the noise of a window gently thrust up, and knew that my uncle had come to his observatory.
I saw it in your eyes." "You saw that I admired you." "Yes, but a man mustn't admire a man." "I suppose I had an idea you were a woman." "What! when I had the heels of my boots raised half an inch," Sir Julius turned one heel, and volleyed out silver laughter. "I don't come much above your shoulder even now," she said, and proceeded to measure her height beside him with arch up-glances.
The rain pattered lustily without; the wind wailed in the chimney; the lightning flashed, the thunder volleyed. And Peter looked at the Duchessa and blessed the elements.
And with the emptying of their long guns the Americans drew their short ones, and in a concerted ripping crash the forty-fives volleyed death and dismay into the oncoming cannibals. The rush was checked. For a few seconds the Red Bones wavered and milled about. Into their mass poured a cloud of arrows and blowgun darts from the silent but no less deadly weapons of the Mayorunas.
The latter volleyed back in the same jargon, and as she did so, Tony's astonished eye detected in her the doubleted page who had handed him the letter in Saint Mark's. "What!" he cried, "the lad was this girl in disguise?" Polixena broke off with an irrepressible smile; but her face clouded instantly and she returned to the charge.
With the prompt French instinct for the politics of the street, the man with the black moustache had already run across to a corner of the cafe, sprung on one of the tables, and seizing a branch of chestnut to steady himself, shouted as Camille Desmoulins once shouted when he scattered the oak-leaves among the populace. "Frenchmen!" he volleyed; "I cannot speak!
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