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The others hastened to the spot, and gazed with horror-stricken eyes at a number of minute molehills showing distinctly in the felting, and each one presenting a sharp point when investigated by the touch. "It's nails!" croaked Elsie deeply; and at that cook gave a groan of dismay. "It is, for sure! Them dratted tacks!
These frogs came safely to Oxford; and the day after their arrival, a stupid housemaid took off the top of the bottle to see what was inside; one of the frogs croaked at that instant, and so frightened her that she dared not put the cover on again. They all got loose in the garden, where I believe the ducks ate them, for I never heard or saw them again. From 'Curiosities of Natural History'
"How sour is it?" he inquired. "I'd hate to say," the Muley Cow replied. "I insist on your telling me," he croaked. "I insist; for I've a right to know." "Well," said the Muley Cow, "the corn from the silo is not quite as sour as your temper, Mr. Crow. And that's all I can say." That seemed to be enough for him. He asked no more questions, but flew off in a terrible rage.
"I am dying," answered the engineer, and a faint pink froth bubbled to his lips as he spoke. Hovey merely laughed; he spilled Klopp's share of the gold across the surface of the table, a gleaming pile. "How are you, Klopp?" he repeated. "I will live," croaked the dying man, and instantly his clutches were among the hundreds of coins, and his red mouth grinned with a ghastly joy.
Yet when she saw him there on the steamer, she pitied him; he looked wearied and bewildered; even his wife, with her twitching head, and her prophecies of evil, croaked hoarsely out, while she clung to Mrs. March's hand where they sat together till the leave-takers were ordered ashore, was less pathetic. Mela was looking after both of them, and trying to cheer them in a joyful excitement.
At night you had often to ride from picket to picket in dense darkness, trusting to the horse to find his way, or sometimes dismounting to feel with your hands for the track, while the great Southern fire-flies offered their floating lanterns for guidance, and the hoarse "Chuck-will's-widow" croaked ominously from the trees, and the great guns of the siege of Charleston throbbed more faintly than the drumming of a partridge, far away.
"Fired after thirty years!" he croaked. "Fired!" There was unmistakable finality in Bryce's tones. "You're hired again, however, at a higher salary, as mill-superintendent. You can get away with that job, can't you, Dan?
She croaked at him, there is no other word to describe the inarticulate sound which issued from her lips, then swept forward, and the man retired, no doubt thinking the stranger's manner on a par with her appearance.
Half an hour later the choking cloud dusts rose like smoke from the different trails that led north or south or west to the heart of the Hills. "The picnic is over," he suggested gently at their noon camping place. "Yes, thank Heaven!" "You remember your promise?" "What promise?" "That you would explain your 'mystery." "I've changed my mind." A leaf floated slowly down the wind. A raven croaked.
The owls clapped their wings and screamed; the ravens croaked, and the adders hissed. From the darkness of her cave the voice of the enchantress came forth it came forth as a voice from the grave, saying "Who amongst the children of mortals dareth to call upon the name of Elgiva? or, what deed of sin bringeth thee hither?"
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