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As the daylight made them manifest to the Persian, they set up the loud and martial chorus of the paean "the rocks of Salamis echoed back the shout" and, to use the expression of a soldier of that day , "the trumpet inflamed them with its clangour." As soon as the Greeks began to move, the barbarian vessels advanced swiftly.
His brows hung heavily over the dull fire of his eyes; his hair itself seemed like Medusa's, just quivering into savage life; the fingers spread out white and claw-like upon the strings as he curved his violin to his chin, whereof it became, as it were, a piece. The bow shot out and down upon the instrument with a great clangour.
"Call him again!" said Herbert, who, with the ever-fertile mind of tender youth, was never destitute of practical suggestions. "Bright boy! run at once and ring the bell just outside his door." As the child departed to make the clangour, so much more delightful to his own ears than to those for whom it was intended, Eva observed: "But he came in so late last night, papa, and looked very tired."
In one or two of the shop windows could be discerned a light glimmering feebly as through the thickest fog. All the ordinary sights and sounds of morning the vehicles plying for hire, the cracking of whips, the cries of the fish and fruit vendors all were gone. The deathly stillness was broken only by a clangour of the town clock, tolling the hours into a darkened world.
The music and the mirth of the fete, the fire and bright hues of those lamps had out-done and out-shone her for an hour, but now, again, her glory and her silence triumphed. The rival lamps were dying: she held her course like a white fate. Drum, trumpet, bugle, had uttered their clangour, and were forgotten; with pencil-ray she wrote on heaven and on earth records for archives everlasting.
No sooner was its voice heard upon the present occasion than the whole line was in motion. A wild cry of joy from the advancing batallions rent the air, and was then lost in the shrill clangour of the bagpipes, as the sound of these, in their turn, was partially drowned by the heavy tread of so many men put at once into motion.
At the sight of them he longed for the hour of battle, and he watched with eager gaze the sun climbing the sky; and, after hours of suspense, he heard the trumpet's sound and the clangour of the hollow shields, struck by the hard-pointed spears. Putting on the helmet, and fastening the shield upon his left arm, and taking the spear in his right hand, he stepped out bravely to the fight.
Why did she marry him? Not the sea, nor the sky, nor the great mysterious midnight, when he opens his casement and gazes into starry space will give him answer; no Œdipus will ever come to unravel this riddle; this sphinx will never throw herself from the rock into the clangour of the sea-gulls and waves; she will never divulge her secret; and if she is the woman and not a woman of thirty, she has forgotten.
They entered upon a scene of indescribable confusion and clangour. "Ricky," cried Poppy, bending over him, "won't you speak to me? It's Poppy, dear. Don't you know me?" "No, 'e don't know yer, so you needn't arsk 'im." Poppy placed her minute figure defiantly between Rickman and her rival of the open door.
But, just as they were descending upon the wheat-field, up flew the wood-pigeons with such a terrible clangour of their strong wings, and facing towards them, showed such a determination to fight to the last breath, that the peewits, who were never very celebrated for their courage, turned tail, and began to retreat.
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