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Updated: June 2, 2025
The unhuman hoots and wails and whistles came through for nearly a minute, and stopped. "Stay on duty!" snapped the G.C. speaker. "That's no language known on earth. Those are Martians!" Thorn looked up to see Sylva standing by the Watch-plane door. Her face was pale in the growing darkness outside.
No man has less need to quote the brilliant utterances of others than John Bright; for he possesses himself the power to speak in epigrams, and to make sentences which remain long in the memory. Once in his life he found himself in opposition to the workingmen of his district, and during the excitement of an election he was greeted with hoots and hisses.
Martin paid small heed to this shrill torrent of words, but with anxious face was pulling on his long outer hoots, and selecting the stoutest oaken staff of the number stacked in the corner, inviting his guests to arm themselves in like fashion.
You see his medicine wasn't calculated to head off bears. The chief, therefore, was in a bad way. Dr. Darwood was commanded to make the chief well, and, so the story goes, after examining Hoots, he at once saw what was the trouble with the old man.
"I know more what's due than to call a minister a fule to his face, but whiles it's necessary to say it behind his back." "Now I call him a hero, after what he's said to-day." Alec was enjoying the humour of poking up the giant of conventionality. "Hoots, man; it's yourself ye regard as a hero! Set yerself up as a Juggernaut on a car and crush him under the wheels!"
Over our whole social system, complacent Imbecility rules supreme snuffs out the searching light of Intelligence with total impunity and hoots, owl-like, in answer to every form of protest, See how well we all do in the dark! One of these days that audacious assertion will be practically contradicted, and the whole rotten system of modern society will come down with a crash."
A cricket that has climbed up one of the tender shoots strikes a low note, which is like the drowsy chirrup of a roosting bird. It is the first touch of a fiddler in the night's orchestra, and will soon be taken up by thousands of other crickets, bell-tinkling toads, croaking frogs in the valley, and the solitary owl that hoots from the hills.
The effort necessary gave a tone of defiance to his words. 'What for willna ye speik to me, grannie? he said. 'I'm no a haithen, nor yet a papist. 'Ye're waur nor baith in ane, Robert. 'Hoots! ye winna say baith, grannie, returned Robert, who, even at the age of fourteen, when once compelled to assert himself, assumed a modest superiority. 'Nane o' sic impidence! retorted Mrs. Falconer.
Do I hear you, gentle reader, exclaiming, like the Scotsman when he first saw a hippopotamus, "Hoots! There's nae sic a animal!" It is simply your ignorance.
The buzzing of his bee was for the present interrupted by the return of Blue Peter with his wife. She threw her arms round Malcolm's neck, and burst into tears. "Hoots, my woman!" said her husband, "what are ye greitin' at?" "Eh, Peter!" she answered, "I canna help it. It's jist like a deith.
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