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I let him go a few steps higher, and then I let him have it with both lungs. "Buona sera, eccellenza, signori! I roared after him. And a scream came down in answer such a scream! A dozen different terrors were in it; and the wheezing had stopped, with the old scoundrel's heart.
Sister Hyacinthe was one of the very few who still had their eyes open, anxious as she was respecting La Grivotte, who now lay quite motionless, like a felled animal, breathing painfully, with a continuous wheezing sound.
The pretty waitress of the inn showed me the way, and a wheezing old man half gardener and half butler introduced me to the rooms where Cowper had passed so many a dreary hour, and where he had been cheered by the blithe company of Cousin Lady Hesketh.
Every trifling personal belonging was carefully saved and packed in a little box to follow the letter. All of this was done amid much boisterous jesting. And there was the usual hilarious singing to the wheezing accompaniment of an old mouth-organ. But of reference to home, or mothers, or comradeship, nothing. Rarely a night passed without its burial parties.
He was on the point of warning Clementina lest she too should be worse than startled, when he was arrested by the voice of John Jack, the old gardener, who came stooping after them, looking a sexton of flowers. "Ma'colm, Ma'colm!" he cried, and crept up wheezing. "I beg yer leddyship's pardon, my leddy, but I wadna hae Ma'colm lat ye gang in there ohn tellt ye what there is inside."
She looked up as if she had expected him, noted his dark face, and lowered her head again. "Black Pussy's gone, Lem. I've got a cold settin' on me here," she whispered, wheezing as she laid her hand on her chest. "I hope it'll kill ye!" grunted Lem. "What did you leave the toolhouse fer, when I told ye to stay?" "What toolhouse, Lemmy?" The dazed eyes looked up at him in surprise.
Damn the woman with her whining, wheezing letters, 'Do give me time I'll pay in time. Might have known it would end in her bunking." "I don't think you ought to speak of her like that," Joan attempted; "after all, it is only that she does not happen to be here this morning. She would have let me know if she had not been coming back."
What prevented Mr. Sponge wheezing away, will appear in the next chapter. The reason Mr.
They were covered with dust and dirt, and had not been worked for a twelvemonth; but nothing discouraged, we washed some of the thickest of the cobwebs away, examined the screws, filled the dry and cracked boxes with water, adjusted the hose, and then applied the brakes. A low, wheezing sound was heard, which resembled the breathing of a person troubled with asthma, but no water was ejected.
And then there was a sound, a thin, wheezing, soaring yet stifled sound, the cry of a conquered hysteria. "Did you see that, Ralph?" "I did. I heard it." "He couldn't, could he?" "Oh, Lord, no.... They appreciate him, too, Barbara." "That isn't the way," she said. "We don't want him appreciated that way. That rich, gross way." "No. It isn't nearly subtle enough.
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