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One cracked past as I was looking through my glasses to see if there were any evidence of life in the German trenches. "Your hat, sir!" Another moved a sandbag slightly, but not until after the hat had come down and the head under it, most expeditiously. Up to eight hundred yards a bullet cracks; beyond that range it whistles, sighs, even wheezes.
"Mars Joe, he ain't right well dis evenin'," he said, evasively, but when Sherman persisted he was ushered into a back room where sat the redoubtable captain, all the fierceness of his burnside whiskers, the austerity of his West Point manner, melted in the indignity of sneezes and wheezes. Sherman looked at him in frank dismay.
His frightful wheezes and choking gulps attracted the lawyer's attention to him, and the gun was suddenly leveled at his breast. "Stand back there, Crabbe!" ordered Everett. "You have nothing to do with this." But, as the lawyer spoke, Lem sprang forward with the fierceness of a wild beast.
An engine of money, appealing to the sensitiveness of money, it has no connection with the mind of the nation. And that it is not of, but apart from, the people, may be seen when great crises come. Can it stop a war? The people would, and with thunder, had they the medium. But in strong gales the power of the Press collapses; it wheezes like a pricked pigskin of a piper.
Saunders came from Lydd and had a look at it, but he says it's past repair er satisfactory repair, and it ud really save money in the long run if we bought a new one." Joanna was a little shocked. She had listened to the grunts and wheezes of the harmonium from her childhood, and the idea of a new one disturbed her it suggested sacrilege and ritualism and the moving of landmarks.
He also had a number of artful little schemes which he called 'wheezes', the most successful of these being a lecture on The Religious Teaching of Shakespeare', which he invariably delivered on a Sunday afternoon in the theatre of any town he happened to be in, and not infrequently when requested occupied the pulpit and preached capital sermons.
Leadbatter's steps and wheezes and grumblings had arrived in the passage, and Lancelot hastily stole back into his room, his heart continuing to flutter painfully. He heard the complex noises reach his landing, pass by, and move up higher. She wasn't coming in to him then; he could endure the suspense no longer. He threw open his door and said, "Is there anything the matter?" Mrs.
"Oh, hurry!" she cried. "Simon has wheezed all night and can hardly breathe." "A strange time o' year to have asthma, Simon," grinned Dr. Whiskers. "Wheezes mostly come in cold weather." "Too much woods smoke," gasped poor Simon. "Ah, I see! Well, let me rub this grease into your chest. You must take two of these pills every half hour until you stop wheezing." "Haven't any clock," growled Simon.
Strength, wind and nerve were gone from Satan; his hoofs pounded the ground with the stamp of a plowhorse; his breath came in wheezes with a rattle toward the end; the tail no longer fluttered out straight behind. Yet when the master leaned and called he found something in his great heart with which to answer.
He had for a long time cherished the belief that any exertion would prove fatal; but the prospect of having the hoodoo removed, together with a lively curiosity as to what means Amanda would employ to remove it, spurred him to persist despite groans, wheezes, and ejaculations.
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