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The party dismount at the churchyard gates, and as the coffin enters they raise the Irish cry, a blood-curdling wail that makes your muscles creep, while a cold chill runs down your spine, and you sternly make for home. You may as well see it out, for you can hear the "Keen" two miles away against the wind.
Deliver us from such terrors as these! In visiting Dungeon Rock, however, like most places of a similar character, we find there is no especial reason for fear, notwithstanding the indicative name, and the many blood-curdling traditions connected therewith. It was a fine autumn day, when, together with some friends, we mustered courage to pay our respects to this now famous spot.
They say he was in the battle of Harlem Lane, and beat the rally for our troops when Knowlton fell. The Vly boys are great friends with him." "But, I thought you were at daggers drawn with the boys of the Vly Market, Peter? Surely, you told me blood-curdling tales of the fights between them and you Broadway boys?"
"Realize," said Belton, "that I am carefully weighing each remark I make and am fully conscious of how much my statement involves." Bernard bowed his head in solemn thought. Viola's recent death, the blood-curdling experiences of the day, and now Belton's impressive words all united to make that a sober moment with him; as sober as any that he had ever had in his life.
During luncheon he takes his place under the table, and from there emits blood-curdling howls with sufficient frequency to make conversation extremely difficult. This he varies by nosing about the visitor's legs and growling. I am not fond of dogs under the best of circumstances. I always labour under the presumption that they will bite.
I asked this question with one of those cold, hollow, heartless laughs, such as croupiers are supposed to indulge in when they toss a five-franc piece back to a poor devil who has just lost his last hundred Napoleons at baccarat I have never seen this done and have never heard the laugh, but that is the way the storybooks put it particularly the blood-curdling part of the laugh.
The hero could hear the ghost's footsteps and its blood-curdling laugh, but he was afraid to turn his head, and when he did very, very, very, slowly the muscles of seven little necks stiffened obedient to Sally May's suggestion he saw a terrible but here Rosamond broke in with an hysterical cry, "Please, Sally May, I can't bear any more" and Sally May's spell was broken.
The man stumbled about seeking her, cursing with blood-curdling blasphemy. Suddenly he tripped and went sprawling. The gun clattered from his bruised fingers; it struck the woman's knee. Swiftly her hand closed upon it. The hot barrel burned her palm. She was on her feet in an instant. Her left hand fumbled in her blouse, and she found what had been there all along the flash-lamp.
The two friends, huddled trembling in their precarious position on the limb, saw the great lion halt in his restless pacing as the blood-curdling cry smote his ears, and then slink quickly into the jungle, to be instantly lost to view. "Even the lion trembles in fear," whispered Mr. Philander. "Most remarkable, most remarkable," murmured Professor Porter, clutching frantically at Mr.
Liz held the Barnacle with difficulty; the dog bared his teeth at the sheriff and uttered a series of most blood-curdling growls. "You come botherin' around here," said Liz, desperately, "an' I'll let him fly at ye!" Both the girls of Central High, and their brothers and boy friends, in the camp across the lake, had believed the Barnacle to be "all bluff."
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