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These ditches were no creditable engineering jobs, but they would, at need, carry a good deal of water down the slope. By this time the rain was falling heavily. In the distance heavy thunder volleyed, and the sky was growing blacker every minute. "One more job," called Dick. "Dave and Greg, tumble out with the shelter flap!"
A strong wind was blowing down the court and caught the ball and held its flight. It fell on the baseline. Kingscote made a remarkable recovery with a fine lob that forced Johnston back. Kingscote took the net and volleyed decisively to Johnston's backhand. Johnston again lobbed, and by a freak of coincidence the ball fell on the baseline within a foot of his previous shot.
And Bard, his glance probing among the shadowy rafters of the room, seemed to be searching there for the secret on whose trail he rode. Through the interims the rain crashed and volleyed on the roof above them; the cold spray whipped down on them through the cracks; the wind shook and rattled the crazy house; and the drawling voice of Nash went on and on.
The play was "The Charlatan," the work of that other apostle, whose outspoken Epistles to the English chronically relieve the dull decorum of London journalism; the man of whom Tennyson came near writing Buchanan to right of him, Buchanan to left of him, Buchanan in front of him, Volleyed and thundered. But that night it was the audience that volleyed and thundered, in unanimous applause.
All the voices said: Out of departed yesterday is grown to-day; Out of to-day to-morrow surely breaks; Out of corruption the inspired awakes; Out of existence earth-clouds roll away And leave all living, for there are no dead! After we had made room for Monty before the fire and some one had hung his wet jacket up to dry, we volleyed questions at him faster than he could answer.
I refused that, but he held on to me and, both of us being hurt in the leg on the same side, we staggered together down the goat-track. Down below we found the horse plunging in a frenzy of fear, and he nearly succeeded in breaking away from both of us, dragging us out into full view of the enemy, who volleyed us at long range.
A brass-plate embellished the great porte-cochere: "Pensionnat de Demoiselles" was the inscription; and beneath, a name, "Madame Beck." I started. About a hundred thoughts volleyed through my mind in a moment. Yet I planned nothing, and considered nothing: I had not time. Providence said, "Stop here; this is your inn."
She felt anguish for this Thai boy and all of the myriad throwaways of the planet who were volleyed here and there indiscriminately and if she had been more like a woman she would have cried even if the anguish was beyond tears. But one day at the swimming pool he stood there looking wistfully at those his age without stepping into the water.
Pete's shock of hair stood up as usual like a scrubbing-brush; he wore no hat, and his dull eyes looked about from one to another eager face. Ben had strolled back of a tall pile of starch-boxes. "Is it true an areoplane come down in Mr. Carder's field yisterday?" The question volleyed at the dwarf from a dozen directions.
Day was just breaking, and to the right he could see a tongue of fire flaming against the dark sky. "What is that, sir?" he enquired of an officer who passed. "That is Stromboli, signor, the great volcano of Lipari. It is always in eruption." Uncle John groaned. "Volcanoes to right of us, volcanoes to left of us volleyed and thundered," he muttered dismally, as he fell back in his chair.
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