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Priscilla kept at her spinning while this harangue went on, but the drone of the wheel did not prevent her noting a sigh and a catch of the breath that interrupted the discourse now and then. She flushed as she replied, "Why does not Captain Standish come to me himself? If I am worth the winning I ought to be worth the wooing."
We have been here for five weeks for a change, and it has done me some little good; but I have been forced to live the life of a drone, and for a month before leaving home I was unable to do anything and had to stop all work. We return to Down to-morrow. Hooker has been here for two or three days, so that I have had much talk about his Address. I am glad that you will be there.
Now musket shots flashed on board the cutter in quick succession, and sundry balls whizzed over the poop, intended for the helmsman by their side. Captain Jack gnashed his teeth, as the menacing drone of one of them came perilously close to the beloved head by his cheek. "Look out, every man. We'll run her down!" he called. His voice was like the blast of bugles.
Guns were roaring near and far, and in the air above was the long, sighing drone of shells as we raced forward, bumping and swaying over the uneven surface faster and faster, until, skidding round a rather awkward corner, we saw before us a low-lying, jagged outline of broken walls, shattered towers and a tangle of broken roof-beams all that remains of the famous old town of Ypres.
They did so, and all stole silently through the black forest in the direction of the mysterious sound. Clearer and clearer it came through the frosty air; but it was a foreign sound to the savage ear. Now it seemed to them almost like a distant water-fall; then it recalled the low hum of summer insects and the drowsy drone of the bumblebee. Thump, thump, thump! was the regular accompaniment.
With a martyr look, yet a satirical glance, Averil opened the piano; and Henry settled himself in the master's arm-chair, as one about to enjoy well-earned rest and entertainment after a hard day's work. 'I say, what doleful drone have you there! 'I am trying a new chant for the "Nunc Dimittis". 'Nothing but that day and night! Give us something worth hearing.
"Now, now, like a good girl go on." "My friend Cora my darling little mamma I never knew nothing about anything except me and my mamma, we it worried her that I didn't have it like like other girls I you see you see, mister?" "Yes, yes, I see." Her voice, so jerked up with sobs, quieted down to a drone finally, to a low drone that talked on and on through an hour, through two.
"Like MAlpin's drone and small pipes, I suppose," said Oldbuck. "Well? Pray go on." "Well then, Patrick replies to Ossian: Upon my word, son of Fingal, While I am warbling the psalms, The clamour of your old women's tales Disturbs my devotional exercises." "Excellent! why, this is better and better.
"I have an appointment at the House of Commons then." "Excellent!" Selingman declared. "I go there with you. Your House of Commons always fascinates me. I hear you speak, perhaps? No? What does it matter? I will hear the others drone. I go to fetch a car." Maraton held out his hand. "I have a car," he observed. "It is waiting now at the back entrance.
She depreciated her sketching powers. 'I am impatient with my imperfections. I am therefore doomed not to advance. 'On the contrary, that is the state guaranteeing ultimate excellence, he said, much disposed to drone about it. She sighed: 'I fear not. He turned the leaves, comparing her modesty with the performance. The third of the leaves was a subject instantly recognized by him.
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