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Blaze!” And then, half with horror and half with rejoicing, she uttered a series of irrational, incoherent sounds that were nothing more than “Hu-hu, oi-oi, hu-hu, oi-oi!” The fire from the papers flared up at once, and she ran down the steps with a roar and a bellow that are fearful to imagine, nerve-racking to hear. In a few minutes the house was a bedlam.
Butteridge'll know of it and come along on my track." Butteridge would be a terrible person to be on any one's track. Bert thought of the great black moustaches, the triangular nose, the searching bellow and the glare. His afternoon's dream of a marvellous seizure and sale of the great Butteridge secret crumpled up in his mind, dissolved, and vanished. He awoke to sanity again. "Wouldn't do.
A timid bear, a wolf who spends its desolate life in dismal protest against a solitary fate, the crashing rush of a startled caribou, the deliberate bellow of a bull moose, strayed far south from its northern fastnesses. These are the harmless creatures peopling the obscure recesses. For the rest, they are the weird suggestions of a sensitive imagination.
Now it chanced once upon the break of day that he heard a cry so terrible that one would have called it a demons cry; nor had he ever heard a brute bellow in such wise, so awful and strange it seemed. He called a woman who passed by the harbour, and said: Tell me, lady, whence comes that voice I have heard, and hide me nothing. My lord, said she, I will tell you truly.
He dashed out the first opening and started to run through the front row of rooms, shouting at the top of his voice. "Slade! Slade!" he yelled. "Cochise Apaches! Defend yourself!" From the inner rooms on his right came back an angry bellow. "What the devil?" Lennon twisted aside through a black doorway. Farther in he saw a glimmer of light.
With a cry that was more like the bellow of some beast of the field than any sound of a man's voice, Simone drove his horse against Vittoria, and, bending over his charger's neck, gripped the woman about the neck with both hands, and, lifting her out of her saddle, flung her across his crupper and held her there, squeezing at her throat.
Specimens of six distinct genera were found, including the large red howler, inert and easily located by its deep, roaring bellow which can be heard for a distance of several miles; the giant black spider monkey, very alert, and, when frightened, fairly flying through the branches at astonishing speed; and a woolly monkey, black in color, and very intelligent in expression, frequently tamed by the savages, who "enjoy having them as pets but are not averse to eating them when food is scarce."
When however it is found that the old man used to foam and bellow at persons who did not approve of his paradoxes, one is slightly inclined in spite of reverence for his moral strength to set him down as a nuisance, and to wonder how people managed to put up with him at times.
Carriages go past, and neither the sheep nor the shepherd turn to look. Suddenly there comes a hollow booming sound a roar, mellowed and subdued by distance, with a peculiar beat upon the ear, as if a wave struck the nerve and rebounded and struck again in an infinitesimal fraction of time such a sound as can only bellow from the mouth of cannon. Another and another.
He stopped when he was abreast of them to bellow again, then kept slowly on past them. They had seated themselves in the moonlight among the stumps of some freshly cut poplars. "Dis donc, what is the matter?" he asked at length, noticing her unusual silence, for she generally prattled on, telling him of the uneventful hours of her days. "Nothing," she returned evasively.
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