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They're all down yonder; git ye back, Miss, to the hoose be the side-door; mind ye, don't go round the corner; and I'll jest sit awhile among the bushes, and wait a good time for a start. And good-bye, Miss; and don't ye show like as if there was aught out o' common on your mind. Hish! There was a distant hallooing.
Sir Rowland then fell. A hollow plunge, echoed and re-echoed by the walls, marked his descent into the water. "Give me the link," cried Jonathan. Holding down the light, he perceived that the wounded man had risen to the surface, and was trying to clamber up the slippery sides of the well. "Shoot him! shoot him! Put him out of hish mishery," cried the Jew.
Suddenly it was broken by a swift, complete sound, a heavy boom-roar, and on the heels of this noise came a throbbing, whistling sigh that, at first faint as the sound of ocean on a distant beach, increased with incredible speed to a whistling swish, ending in a HISH of tremendous volume and a roaring, grinding burst.
Tom was watching the back-door through the side window, with eyes glazing with the intensity of his stare. Anthony Turnbull, holding his breath, listened at the room door. It was a false alarm. When he came back to the window looking into the yard: "Hish! Look thar!" said he in a vehement whisper.
And when it is dark, all in the hour of Triboogie, Hish creepeth from the forest, the Lord of Silence, whose children are the bats, that have broken the command of their father, but in a voice that is ever so low. Hish husheth the mouse and all the whispers in the night; he maketh all noises still. Only the cricket rebelleth.
I was standing in the centre of the room confronting her when she entered. 'Why did you lock the door, Madame? I demanded. She slipped in suddenly with an insidious smirk, and locked the door hastily. 'Hish! whispered Madame, raising her broad palm; and then screwing in her cheeks, she made an ogle over her shoulder in the direction of the passage.
It won't be, whatever it is, till two or three o'clock in the morning. I'll ha'e them a' here long afore; so keep a brave heart there's a darling. I suppose she heard, or fancied she heard, a step approaching, for she said 'Hish! Her pale wild face vanished, the door shut quickly and softly, and the key turned again in the lock.
Oh, the gold! the precious, precious gold! the green miser'll hoard ye soon! Hish! hish! God goes 'mong the worlds blackberrying. Cook! ho, cook! and cook us! Jenny! hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, Jenny, Jenny! and get your hoe-cake done!" Leg and Arm The Pequod of Nantucket, Meets the Samuel Enderby, of London "Ship, ahoy! Hast seen the White Whale?"
Both Bois-Rose and Tiburcio, interrupted while suffering the most vivid emotions, stood for some moments in a state of stupor, while Pepe was stretched out at full length, and supposed to be asleep. This was only apparent, however, for at the report he sprang to his feet as if he had heard the "hish" of the bullet as it passed close to his ears.
Don't think it over put it over. I tell you, Dave, there are big things in the air. They are beginning to move already. Have you noticed the strangers in town of late? That's the advance guard " "Advance guard of a real estate boom?" "Hish! That's a bad word. Get away from it. Say 'Industrial development." "All right, industrial development.
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