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So she sat serene through a five-second stage wait while Quan frantically spun the pages of his book to find the place he ought to have been following of course, but he'd yielded to the temptation of trying to do something else at the same time and had got lost and then dry-throated, incapable of a sound for a couple of seconds more hours they seemed after she had been identified as the culprit who had failed to come in on a cue.
And as Hazel, dry-throated, whispered 'Foxy! and caught her up, the hounds came over the ridge like water. Riding after them, breaking from the wood on every side, came the Hunt. Scarlet gashed the impenetrable shadows.
It touched down here, sir, three weeks ago, and we supplied it with food and missiles and some of us joined it. It went off to try to find you." "I'd better go after it," said Bors, dry-throated. "It could blunder into trouble. At best " The youthful leader of Deccan's revolt grinned widely. "It's got plenty of missiles," he told Bors. "It can take care of itself! And it has plenty of food.
Diane held tightly to Baird's hand, in the radar room. He said evenly: "There'll be volunteers. The Plumies are pretty sporting characters putting up a fight with an unarmed ship, and so on. If there aren't enough other volunteers, the skipper and I will cut them free by ourselves." Diane said, dry-throated: "I'll help. So I can be with you. We've got so little time."
The stars came out over a strange, silent, astonished, confounded, stupefied Ascalon that night. The wolf-howling of its revelry was stilled, the clamor of its obscene diversions was hushed. It was as if the sparkling tent of the heavens were a great bowl turned over the place, hushing its stridulous merriment, stifling its wild laughter and dry-throated feminine screams.
There, my Daddy," she said, with a studied calm which did not conceal the dry-throated swallow which accompanied the words. "I guess it was how I thought. You were scared. Scared to tell me." She shook her head. "It's it's not very brave, is it? I wonder why you were scared? You needn't have been. Folks don't need to be scared of anything.
A man stood in the doorway, naked but for the wisp of skirt at his waist. Hamilton got up quickly, for he recognized the chief of Sandi's spies. "O Kelili," said Hamilton in his easy Bomongo tongue, "why do you come and from whence?" "From the island over against the Ochori, Lord," croaked the man, dry-throated.
It was therefore with legitimate excitement that one rainy morning after daybreak they saw that distinct shape of a solitary island standing up against the encircling strip of silver which ran round the skyline and separated the grey and green of the billows from the grey and mauve of the morning clouds. "What can it be?" cried MacIan, in a dry-throated excitement.
Sally was white and scared. Joe's father patted her shoulder reassuringly. "He'll make it, all right," said Sally, dry-throated. Joe's father nodded. "Of course he will!" But his voice was not steady. "Nothing could happen to him now!" said Sally fiercely. "Of course not," said Joe's father. A loudspeaker close to them said abruptly: "Nineteen miles."
A week of the dust-filled air of Meloa had left its mark on Captain Duke O'Neill. It had spread filth over his uniform, added another year to his face, and made waking each morning a dry-throated torture. Now he stopped at the entrance to the ship where he had been reassigned a berth for the night shift. An attendant handed him a small bottle, three biscuits, and a magazine.
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