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Max seemed to have finished what he had to say about the day's exploits, and Gracie rose and went to her father's side. He drew her to his knee with a slight caress. "What has my little girl been doing all day?" "Playing in the sand most of the time, papa. I'm so glad those horrid sharks didn't get a chance to bite you or anybody to-day. Such big, dreadful-looking creatures Maxie says they were."
Two men in hideous masks seized them, and carried them up and up, till Ninon, in horror, thought that they were to be thrown from the top of the tower. But worse than that awaited them; for soon they entered a large circular room, in which, on a sort of throne, sat a dreadful-looking man, clad in sable. He had human form and features, but reminded one of the more disgusting kind of wild beasts.
She hissed at him angrily, and made a threatening gesture with her hands, which sent him slinking back to the darkness. "What is it, Ruby?" called out a strong voice from above. She started. "Oh, are you there, Nigel?" "Yes. What's the matter?" "It was only a dreadful-looking dog. What are you doing up there?" "I was looking at the stars. Aren't they wonderful to-night?"
"See, what grand fellows are these!" exclaimed Arthur. I gazed up. On a rock close above us stood a couple of large birds, which were unmistakably vultures. "Dreadful-looking creatures," cried Ellen. "They make me shudder. They seem as if preparing to pounce down on some little innocent lambs to carry them off." "It would prefer a dead mule, I suspect," observed John.
Upon this they all cried out, "O mamma, DO come here! the bird is gone and left her nest?" And when they cried out, they saw five wide little red mouths open in the nest, and saw that the hairy bunch of stuff was indeed the first of five little birds. "They are dreadful-looking things," said Mary; "I didn't know that little birds began by looking so badly."
Just as the cab was reaching home I looked out and saw a dreadful-looking man coming from our door. He stared at me so horribly, so suspiciously, that I waited in the cab till he was well away. I had a latch-key and let myself in quietly. I went into the drawing-room. The lights were on, but the fire was low and no one was there.
He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed. I never saw in my life a more dreadful-looking figure.
A few yards above the centre of the tower there are angular projections stretched-out, dreadful-looking figures, a cross between vampires and hyenas and you feel glad that they are only made of stone, and in the next place that they are a good way off.
Know by these signs that the Oro, god of the Mountain, who has slept a while, is awake, and ill will it go with them who question his power or dare to try to harm those who dwell in his house. Bring food day by day and await commands. Begone!" The dreadful-looking body was bundled into one of the canoes, that out of which Bastin had emerged.
I had a horrid vision of plaster jackets and invalid couches, and those long flat, dreadful-looking chairs which you meet being wheeled about at Bournemouth. It seemed impossible to connect such things with Vere! "It can't be so bad! It can't be really serious," I cried vehemently. "It was all over in such a second, and we were there at once; everything was done for her!
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