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The objects at present on the table are, a pestle and mortar, and a saucepanful of the dry bones of animals in plain words, the dinner for the day. By way of ornament to the dull brown walls, icicles appear in the crevices of the timber, gleaming at intervals in the red fire-light. No wind whistles outside the lonely dwelling no cry of bird or beast is heard.
The painter, who was plainly enough a drunken rapscallion fellow, in strolling about the country, getting his lodging and skin full of ale, now here, now there, by daubing Turks' Heads, Foxes and Hounds, and Pigs and Whistles, as signs for rustic ale-houses, had seen ride by one day a young lady of such beauty that he had made a sketch of her from memory, and finding where she lived, had hung about in the park to get a glimpse of her again, and having succeeded, had made her portrait and brought it back to town, in the hope that some gentleman might be taken by its charms and buy it.
They believed I did it, and the result was just what any man of reflection could have foreseen: I had to order a hundred and ten whistles I think we had a hundred and ten children in the house then, but some of them are off at college now I had to order a hundred and ten of those shrieking things, and I wish I may never speak another word if we didn't have to talk on our fingers entirely, from that time forth until the children got tired of the whistles.
She knows that the young pupils are growing discouraged, and that the time has come to hearten them. Chip, chip! "watch, I'll show you," she whistles Cheeeep! with a sharp up-slide at the end, which I soon grow to recognize as the signal to strike.
I no longer knew where I was going, but was like a train going at full speed through a dense fog, and which in vain disturbs the perfect silence of the sleeping country with its puffing and shrill whistles; when the driver cannot distinguish the changing lights of the discs, nor the signals, and when soon some terrible crash will send the train off the rails, and the carriages will become a heap of ruins.
But wait! the wheel's going down down down....Good thing I have you to hold to poor Miss Sapphira, she can't come, now! Listen at all the street-criers, getting closer, and the whistle-sounds I wish we had whistles; the squawky kind. See my element, Abbott, the air I've breathed all my life the carnival.
"Miss," said he, holding out a big revolver in his hard fist, "you take this yer gun, an' ef any one whistles, or otherwise disturbs you, let a hole into him straight away, an' we'll see him buried decent."
In order to form a logical opinion of a creature's mental capacity, it has to demonstrate some perceptible mental capacity to start with. You can't get very far studying a creature's habitat and social structure when most of its habitating goes on under twenty feet of mud." "How about the language?" "We get by with squeaks and whistles and sign language. A sort of pidgin-Venusian.
The instructor kicks on full rudder, and the world whirls below like a top, and the air whistles, swish, swish, swish, in the wires at every turn. Stick forward, opposite rudder, and she comes out so fast that your head swims. That is the spin. "Now you try it," says the instructor.
Leave word with Adolphe Keller that instead of going to see him, I shall expect him at the Bourse; and order breakfast served immediately." These commands amazed Cesar. "He whistles to that formidable Adolphe Keller like a dog! he, du Tillet!"
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