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He broke off, listening. The other was listening too. There was the sharp cracking of a forest tree one of those mysterious creakings which haunt the woodland night. But there was another sound too. The trained ears of these men caught its meaning on the instant. It was the vague and distant sound of wheels upon the soft bed of the sandy trail. "A heavy wagon, an' two hosses," said Buck.
But he only narrowly escaped losing his brown traveling cap for his pains, as the stage gave a worse lurch than before, to introduce a series of creakings and joltings hitherto unparalleled. "I cannot endure this much longer," said old Mr. King, growing white around the mouth, and wishing he had strength for one-half the exclamations he felt inwardly capable of. Outside, honest Mr.
The whole deserted waterfront lay wrapped in the shroud of the fog, lulled by the lap of water against pilings and the faint creakings of small craft at their moorings. As the solitary canoe poked out for the open bay these minor sounds fell behind and were replaced by the steady purl of water under the bow.
"How long I lay listening to the creakings and groanings of the rickety old house, I cannot say, nor how long I remained in the doze which finally seized me as I became accustomed to the sounds around and over me.
After that, sounds were more confused, as if he were now at one door, now at the other; then creakings, as if on the stairs again, and after that, no sound at all. For fully half an hour, Gyp continued to sit up, straining her ears. Where was he? What doing? On her over-excited nerves, all sorts of possibilities came crowding. He must have gone downstairs again.
At the far end of the church, above the big door which was never opened and the threshold of which was green with weeds, a boarded gallery reached by a common miller's ladder stretched from wall to wall. Dire were its creakings on festival days beneath the weight of wooden shoes. Near the ladder stood the confessional, with warped panels, painted a lemon yellow.
There was a warning whistle, a straining of heavy chains, creakings and groanings from the derailed engine as if it objected to being pulled and hauled about, then the ponderous driving wheels began to turn slowly. "Stand clear, everybody!" cried the foreman. At that moment Bob came running up, using the back of his hand as a napkin for his lips. "There she goes!" was the loud cry.
Vague sounds and creakings came from the dusky ends of the church; the large clock on the left of the chancel throbbed slowly, with the heavy breathing of a machine asleep.
The floor here also was loose and every step was announced by creakings, while various other sounds were emitted as the boards resumed their accustomed places. "Here you be," said the woman at last as she stopped before the rooms at the end of the hall-way. "We're directly over the bar-room, aren't we?" inquired John as another noisy outburst came from below.
At length, just after two bells had struck and how dreadfully clamourous the strokes sounded in that heavy, stagnant air the helmsman reported that the ship was no longer under command; and presently she swung broadside-on to the swell, rolling heavily, with loud splashing and gurgling sounds in the scuppers, with a swirling and washing of water under the counter, frequent vicious kicks of the now useless rudder, accompanied by violent clankings of the wheel chains, loud creakings and groanings of the timbers, heavy flappings and rustlings of the invisible canvas aloft, with fierce jerks of the chain sheets, and, in short, a full chorus of those multitudinous sounds that emanate from a rolling ship in a stark calm.
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