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Updated: June 11, 2025
He could hear voices behind the shingle-bank. A double-sentry at the least had been left over the lugger. Well, they must go through with it now. "Knife ready?" he croaked. "Ye'." The grass was growing sparse about them. He began to hear his feet. So did the men beyond the bank. There was the click of a cocking musket.
The make-believe cream and milk went all over him. Such a wet, cross, disgusted rooster you never saw! "Too-ok, too-ok, too-ok," he croaked, as he shook the soapsuds from his feathers. Then away he marched, scolding to himself about little girls who played silly games. One afternoon the children were out in the orchard playing "lady." Mary and Betty were the mothers in the game.
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.
Knee deep in yellow swamp water the squire squatted, with his shotgun cocked and loaded and ready, waiting to kill the bird that now typified for him guilt and danger and an abiding great fear. Gnats plagued him and about him frogs croaked. Almost overhead a log-cock clung lengthwise to a snag, watching him.
Dundee remarked aloud to the parrot, who croaked an irrelevant answer: "Bad Penny! Bad Penny!" "I'm afraid, 'my dear Watson, that those words will not be so helpful in this case as they were when your mistress was murdered," Dundee assured his parrot absently, for he was studying the peculiar situation from every angle.
Once, a shy, suspicious, bright-eyed mouse rattled among the cinders, and ran into the wainscot, and then came out again, and stared at Sarah Bond, who, accustomed to such visits, did not raise her eyes to inquire into the cause of the rustling which in a few more moments took place upon a tray containing the remnants of some bread and cheese, her frugal supper. "Sarah," croaked Mr.
When the young man saw that terrible creature his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth, and his knees smote together with fear, for he thought that his end had now certainly come. "Who are you?" he croaked, as soon as he could find his voice. "I am the King of the Demons of the Earth, and my name is Zadok," answered the being.
For a moment he stood motionless, staring into the cool shadows of the wood, while a curious smile played over his face. And may be, in spite of his derisive critic, who still croaked from the edge of the pool, his thoughts were not entirely centred on his proposed modest endeavour. Then with a short laugh he turned on his heel, and strode back towards Rumfold.
As long as they believed that daemons transformed themselves into an animal's shape, they said, "The devil croaked at me this morning in the shape of a raven; and therefore my horse fell with me."
"'There's a dispersal sale to-morrow at the Goodloe farm, says Peewee. ''N' I hear there's some real nice stuff going under the hammer. General Goodloe croaked this spring. They cleaned him in a cotton deal last year 'n' now their goin' to sell the whole works studs, brood mares, colts everything; plows, too you want a plow? All you need is a plow 'n' a mule to put you where you belong.
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