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Updated: May 31, 2025
The cough came droning through the floor. "If he'd only ah! I'd do anything for him, anything; anybody would. I saw Sophie look at him as she never looked at Magon. If she did if she dared to care for him " All at once she shivered as if with shame and fright, drew the bedclothes about her head, and burst into a fit of weeping.
A buzzing filled his ears; sparkling lights danced, quivering before his eyes. The blood seemed bursting his brain; far off and vague he heard the droning of the flame, the shouts and cries of the great horde of watchers. A whiff of steam hot, damp, terrifying passed across his face, in which the veins were starting from the oily skin. His eyes, half closed, bulged from the sockets.
Mother-of-pearl clouds hung over the southern mainland, and the wash of the lake, which was as pleasant as silence itself, diverted his mind from a distant thump of Indian drums. He knew how lazy, naked warriors lay in their lodges, bumping a mallet on stretched deer-hide and droning barbarous monotones while they kicked their heels in air.
Alternately they looked in the Boy's corner where the grub was, and then over their shoulders at the droning Mac and back, catching the Boy's eye, and returning his reassuring nods and grins. Mac, who had had no innings up to this point, was now embarked upon a most congenial occupation. Wrestling with the Lord on behalf of the heathen, he lost count of time.
I lay very still, my eyes watered with staring, and then the droning began again. I went forward an inch, then another and another down the slope, and at last I could have sworn that I saw dark blurs against the ground. I put out my hand, my weight went after, and I had crashed through a coating of ice up to my elbow in a pool.
Some one from weariness would begin droning a pre-Lenten first verse of a hymn ... 'When I consider thy heavens ... We sang fine, beautifully, and it was such a quiet life, and the smell was so fine; you could see the flaky snow out the windows well, now, just like in a dream..."
The coolness of night was over the awakening earth, although the mounting sun was speedily drinking up the dew and rousing the locusts into droning song. Not a leaf stirred.
To have had one ship, even the smallest, where they were would have been a godsend to the fleet. But two hundred yards, with the dome of force between, made the fleet just exactly as much protection for Sylva as if it had been a million miles away. The droning hum of the helicopter came across the broken ground. Now louder, now momentarily muted, its moments of loudness grew steadily more strong.
How often she glanced up at the clock on the wall during those long hours, when the minute hand was surely stuck at half-past three, and the regular tic-tac seemed to fill the quiet room with its sleepy droning. So hot, so still, so long were the hours of those summer afternoons! The silence was broken now and then by the sounds of a distant piano.
They each had bits of unstranded old junk in their hands, and, with a sort of stoical self-content, were picking the junk into oakum, a small heap of which lay by their sides. They accompanied the task with a continuous, low, monotonous, chant; droning and drilling away like so many gray-headed bag-pipers playing a funeral march.
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