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Physical science, particularly physiology, from its intimate acquaintance with the human organism, is admirably adapted for the function of a danger-signal, so to speak, to warn the ignorant and indifferent that a life undisciplined and ill-regulated cannot but end in irretrievable disaster.
It was the danger-signal of a rattlesnake the harsh alarm that is unmistakable even when heard for the first time, and the sinuous green thing was poised in the centre of the tent, with head thrown back in the attitude to strike. It had been startled by Holden's sudden movement on awakening, and now was armed to repel its supposed enemy.
This would have been a matter of little consequence had the line been worked on the block system, because, in that case, the danger-signal would have been kept up, and would have prevented the excursion train from entering on that portion of the line until it was signalled "clear;" but the block system had been only partially introduced on the line.
Then he returned to the canoe, took out his old gun, put a fresh cap on the nipple and disappeared quickly over the edge of the bank. For a week Kazan and Gray Wolf had been wandering about the headwaters of the McFarlane and this was the first time since the preceding winter that Gray Wolf had caught the scent of man in the air. When the wind brought the danger-signal to her she was alone.
I'm sure something happened at Amsterdam in the morning, she was so different. What did you do to her?" "I bullied her a little," I said. "I thought as much. How could you?" "I believed it would be good for her." "So it was. But it wasn't good for you." "She has been angelic since." "That's the danger-signal. Poor man, you couldn't see it?"
"What?" "See what others don't." Sir Thorald, a trifle disconcerted, applied himself to caviare and, later, to a bottle of Moselle. "She's a beauty, they say " began Ricky, and might have continued had he not caught the danger-signal in Molly Hesketh's black eyes. "Lorraine de Nesville," said Lady Hesketh, "is only a child of seventeen. Her father makes balloons."
At last Stern judged the time was come to descend. "Bark away, old boy!" he exclaimed. "The louder the better. You're our danger-signal now. As long as those poor, dull anthropoid brains keep sensing you I guess we're safe!" To Beatrice he added: "Come now, dear. I'll help you down. The quicker we tackle that raft and away, the sooner we'll be home!" "Home!" she repeated.
Christopher's attention was fixed on a distant speck that might be a danger-signal and he did not answer her or notice the nearer signal of danger in her white face. She was in the grip of her old wild passion again, on fire with her need of assurance, and in a gust of anger she caught at the wheel that seemed to claim his mind.
When surprised she utters a well-known danger-signal, a peculiar whine, whereupon the young ones hide under logs and among grass. Many persons say they will each seize a leaf in their beaks and then turn over on their backs. I have never found any support for this idea, although I have often seen one of the little creatures crawl under a dead leaf." Resistance in common by social animals.
Her cheeks were very hot, and the danger-signal was flashing in her eyes. Ten minutes later she went upstairs, and had a vivacious dialogue of whispers with Mrs. Peckover.
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