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The sails were rolled up in long rolls, and some people in a loft of a warehouse near were hoisting them up with tackles, and pulling them in at the windows. At another place two porters were engaged wheeling something in wheelbarrows across from a slip to the warehouse, stopping by the way at a little platform to have every wheelbarrow load weighed.
In autumn they collect together again, and flocks of fifty or more are commonly seen. Now and then a much larger flock comes down into the plain, wheeling to and fro, and presently descending upon an arable field, where they cover the ground. The wayside is open to all, and that which it affords may be enjoyed without fee; therefore it is that I return to it so often.
If Leila heard she neither turned nor made sign of comprehension. "We will dine at the Santa Regina," he said to Sylvia. "Agatha is there and I'll find somebody at the club to " "Why bother to find anybody?" said Leila, wheeling on him, exasperated. "Why not dine there with Agatha alone? It will not be the first time I fancy!" "What do you mean?" he said fiercely, under his breath.
And presently young Randall Holmes went by on a motor bicycle. He caught sight of me, disappeared, and then suddenly reappeared, wheeling his machine. He rested it by the kerb of the sidewalk and approached the railings. He was within a yard of me. "Would you let me speak to you for half a minute, Major?" "Certainly," said I. "Come in." He swung through the gate and crossed the lawn.
In the lifecraft he closed the port and slammed on full drive away from the ship. Then, wheeling, he shucked Barbara out of her suit like an ear of corn and shed his own. He picked up a fire-extinguisher-like affair and jerked open the door of a room a little larger than a clothes closet. "Jump in here!" He slammed the door shut. "Now strip, quick!"
He walked the deck for hours every day; he watched the foaming green waters, and the gulls wheeling in the sky, and the sun setting over the sea, and the new moon showering its fire upon the waves. Gradually the air grew warm, and ice and snow became as an evil dream. A land of magic it seemed to which Thyrsis came the beauty of it enfolded him like a clasp of love.
"Not so fast, Wade Fuller's animal is there the only animal in all creation that can make a noise like that! Look through the telescope see those dots wheeling about there above the flashing lights? The only animal that can make that racket is man! There are men over there and they aren't in a playful mood! Turn on the invisibility while we can, Morey and let's get nearer!" "Look out here we go!"
Sea-gulls have curiously rook-like habits in some respects, following the plough like them, and in spring wheeling for hours round and round in the sky as the rooks do. The blackbirds and thrushes that had been singing freely previously suddenly ceased singing about December 15, and remained silent for a month, and as suddenly began singing again about January 15.
He jerked and curveted him with a brutal playfulness, and after a few minutes' turning and wheeling, during which everybody had leisure to admire the perfection of his equitation, he cantered round to a point exactly opposite his enemy, and pulled up his impatient charger.
"Are you quite sure it's what you want?" he asked demurely. "Yes quick!" Nevertheless, it was some minutes before the rifle cracked again. The wheeling bird suddenly struck the wind with its wings aslant, and then fell like a plummet at a distance which showed the difficulty of the feat. Falkner started from her side before the bird reached the ground.
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