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Updated: June 6, 2025
"I only hope we shan't see the creature again on shore," said Halliday. "We have not much further to go to reach it," observed Boxall. The last few yards we had taken we had rapidly shoaled the water. "Thank Heaven, we are ashore at last!" he added, as the light surf which rolled up slowly went hissing back and left our feet uncovered. A few paces more, and we were standing on dry sand.
I had almost reached the little flat by the Ny, at the point where I had last seen my comrades the evening before, when, to my astonishment, the roar of cannon broke forth again, and the shells came hissing over my head and bursting all around me.
"You may snap and snarl at me as much as you like; I don't mind it; but you shall not abuse my sister." "Abuse your sister, you wretch!" said she, the words hissing from her mouth. "I should like to know!" "You will know if you touch Flora again," I answered. Somehow I felt as though Mrs.
The timber could now be discerned, only a short distance in advance, and in a few minutes they would gain the bank. What was that? A strange rustling, hissing sound, as of cattle trampling through dry reeds, a sound which quivered and shook, even in the breath of the hurrying wind!
In ancient Gaul certain glass or paste beads attained great celebrity as amulets under the name of serpents' eggs; it was believed that serpents, coiling together in a wriggling, writhing mass, generated them from their slaver and shot them into the air from their hissing jaws.
Gradually, her brain began to rouse into activity again, and strove confusedly with the thoughts which crowded on it. "That would be stealing. He can't mean it. Stephen can't be a thief." Half-formed, incoherent sentences like these floated in her mind, seemed to be floating in the air, pronounced by hissing voices. She pressed her hands to her temples, and sprang to her feet.
With a foreboding of something very dreadful in his heart, the watchman, still trembling with terror, opens the gate irresolutely and runs back with his eyes shut. At the turning into the main avenue he hears hurried footsteps, and someone asks him, in a hissing voice: "Is that you, Timofey? Where is Mitka?"
Destroy thou them, Oh God; let them fall by their own counsels." "Eight! seven!" Like moans these exclamations resounded in the distance. The steamer began to hiss angrily, and slackened its speed. The noise of the hissing of the steam deafened the pilgrim's words, and Foma saw only the movement of his lips. "Get off!" a loud, angry shout was heard. "It's my place!" "Yours?"
We have relinquished the old names and have no new ones for them; but they are here, inextinguishable, threading the day and night air with their dire squib-trail, if we would but see. Hissing they go, and we do not hear. We feel the effects. Upon the counsel of Mrs. Lawrence, Aminta sent a letter to Lord Ormont at his hotel in Paris, informing him of the position of affairs.
And the Leopard changed, and was a Serpent with many folds, sleek, curled, venomous, hissing. Noorna bin Noorka cried in wrath, 'This is thy shape, O Karaz; change! or thou'lt be no other till Eblis is accepted in Paradise. And the Serpent vanished.
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