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Now he ordered every man aboard ship, except the engineering force necessary to operate the engines, into the torpedo chamber forward. "Whirr-r-r!" the roar of machinery reverberated throughout the hold. The Dewey struggled again in mad convulsion -but all to no avail. The shifted cargo of humans and equipment made no difference; the submersible remained fast.
"That's ripping," said the boys in a breath. "Come and find Billy." Billy was dragged from the recesses of the stable. He grinned widely with joy at the prospect of the picnic. "All the ponies ready at five, Billy," ordered Jim. "Yours too. We're going to make a day of it and we'll want bait. Now, you chaps, come along and get lines and hooks ready!" "Whirr-r-r!"
Just as I got near it, I heard a whirr-r-r over my head, and looking up, I saw a flock of wild duck. They seemed to pause a moment, and then dropped downwards. I couldn't see where they alighted, but of course I knew it must be in the creek. "Well, I didn't pause," said the Hermit. "I just made my way down to the creek as quickly as ever I could, remaining noiseless at the same time.
It was all splendid. 'Now I must also give them a treat, thought the merchant's son. And so he bought rockets, crackers, and all the kinds of fireworks you can think of, put them in his trunk, and flew up with them into the air. Whirr-r-r, how they fizzed and blazed! All the Turks jumped so high that their slippers flew above their heads; such a splendid glitter they had never seen before.
Despite the cold, and her bruises, and her tears, Barbara smiled. In the forest she could behold the prince coming on his way; and he would not see her, for she would hide among the trees and vines. "Whirr-r-r, whirr-r-r!"
The rainy weather had kept Charlie in the house, and he was lounging on a couch in my room, enjoying a pleasant semi-doze, when the monotonous whirr-r-r of the spinning-wheel first attracted his attention. "Lulie," he asked, rising into a sitting posture, "what is that infernal noise on the back gallery?" "The spinning-wheel, Charlie.
The violent spout thus set free dashed against the wheel with its full force, turning it round with a whirr-r-r! that sent the saw up and down so fast as to render it almost invisible. We stood aghast! What fearful termination to the machine impended we could not guess. A moment later and the crank broke, entangled itself with the wheel and stopped it.
She rested in the velvety snow at the foot of the pine-tree, and the vine chafed her body and limbs, and the little flower sang sweet songs to her. "Whirr-r-r, whirr-r-r!" There was that noisy wind again, but this time it was gentler than it had been in the city. "Here you are, my little Barbara," said the wind, in kindly tones. "I have brought you the little snowflake.
"Whirr-r-r! whirr-r-r! whirr-r-r!" said the wind, and it tore through the streets of the city that Christmas eve, turning umbrellas inside out, driving the snow in fitful gusts before it, creaking the rusty signs and shutters, and playing every kind of rude prank it could think of.
Flip flap again up jumped the bird. "Mark cock," cried Forester, from the other side of the wood, not having seen any thing, but hearing the sound of the timber doodle's wing somewhere or other; and at the self-same moment bang! boomed the full report of Harry's right hand barrel, the feathers drifting off down wind toward Frank, told him the work was done, and he asked no question; but ere the cock had struck the ground, which he did within half a second, completely doubled up whirr, whirr-r-r! the loud and startling hubbub of ruffed grouse taking wing at the report of Harry's gun, succeeded and instantly, before that worthy had got his eye about from marking the killed woodcock, bang! bang! from Forester.
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