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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.
"We ought to be safe," Agathemer whispered. "But we may get skewered even as we are. Volleyed arrows drive deep." I heard many a volley and, after the first, since I was listening for it, I heard faintly before each volley the deep boom of thousands of powerful bows, twanging all at the same instant.
With a sound as of a hundred scoured saucepans, the orifice of a ventilator spat upon his shoulder a sudden gush of salt water, and he volleyed a stream of curses upon all things on earth including his own soul, ripping and raving, and all the time attending to his business.
The roar of cannon, the explosion of shells, the rattle of musketry, now ragged as if from detached squads, and now volleyed as from full ranks, mingled with the shrill cheers or rather demoniac yells of the Rebels, pealing their banner cry of "Hell," in their successive charges, and the gruff hoarse shouts of our troops, as they duly repulsed them, formed a most martial accompaniment to our march.
And now, too, in his darkest hour, it was Greek that surged in him iambics of thunderous wrath such as those which are volleyed by Prometheus. But as he sat down to his writing-table, and unlocked the dear old album, and dipped his pen in the ink, a great calm fell on him. The iambics in him began to breathe such sweetness as is on the lips of Alcestis going to her doom.
She's layin' there now, high and dry on the beach." "Didn't the boat that smashed them, lay to?" volleyed the girl. Again the Mexican began to speak excitedly: "Sangre de Christo, no," he chattered, "The boat, she was very big, Señorita, and she did not stop." "Nonsense, Manuel. You were crazy with fright. Don't talk like a fool. Go home and go to bed.
Of course, it was only to be expected that a man with an upper lip like that should come to grief with all those married old maids and elderly women of the opposite sex. Canons to right of him, canons to left of him, canons in front of him but rumour says it was John himself who volleyed and thundered.
Thin ribbons of bright paper volleyed rocket-wise from table to table and fell in festoons from overhead wires. Dancers forced their way through showers of breaking strands, and swayed rhythmically on, trailing broken shreds of kaleidoscopic color. Like punctuations of sound came the popping of balloons and corks.
The only peculiarity of his play was that he never volleyed, but let the balls hop; but if they rose an inch from the ground he never missed having them. There was not only nobody equal, but nobody second to him. It is supposed that he could give any other player half the game, or beat him with his left hand. His service was tremendous.
The door was opened, and the young woman stood on the sill and volleyed forth a series of French execrations that made Tom wince, though he did not understand a word she was saying. Despite her protests, he brushed her aside and stalked into the house. He went rapidly from room to room, upstairs and down, from garret to cellar, the girl following him with her chorus of abusive reproach.
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