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A hush fell upon the burgher crowd as it pressed back respectfully to gaze; and to the din of human voices succeeded now the clatter of hoofs upon the kidney-stones of the square, the jangle of hawkbells, the baying of hounds, and the occasional note of the horn that had first brought warning of the Duke's approach.
Thus to muse in the dim arcade of the jungle absorbing the sounds of the birds, and of the murmuring sea, while a horse did all the work, in holiday humour, was the very bliss of the tropical farmer. In the midst of a soothing, inarticulate soliloquy the "pony dot" burst out into a furious jangle. Tom yelled.
He may come any time after the 1st of March. The birds congregate in large flocks, and frequent groves and parks, alternately swarming in the treetops and filling the air with their sharp jangle, and alighting on the ground in quest of food, their polished coats glistening in the sun from very blackness as they walk about.
Instead of the clang of street car bells and the jangle of nerves tangled from too many humans in town, you hear the flow and the sing and the laughter and the trebles of the glacial streams rejoicing in their race to the sea. You climb the rough hills; and your town lungs blow like a whale as you climb; and every beat pumps inertia out and the sun-healing air in.
"Yes; something that happened to-night," said I, staring at the programme, but seeing nothing, nothing. "Well," said Ethel, "this is not the place for them," turning her eyes to the stage again. The concluding acts of the opera were a jangle of chords and discords, and the hum of voices was like the murmur of a far-off sea. My eyes remained fixed upon the stage.
At last I heard across the lignum the jangle of a brass bell, and the 'plock, plock' of an iron frog, and presently my quarry appeared in sight a couple of hundred yards ahead. To do the boundary-rider justice, he was driving the cattle quietly and considerately. He looked round on hearing the clatter of horse's feet, but my Mazeppa aspect seemed neither to surprise nor disconcert him.
Referring particularly to cows, you may have observed the jangle, jangle, made by the motion of the head in cropping the grass, varied now and then by the confused jumble caused by the animal flinging her head over the back of her neck or fore part of the body to drive away the insects plaguing her.
And before the thought had assumed coherent shape in her mind, she cried out, "Ah! no further! no further!" The echo of her own beseeching words, the jangle of the horses' bells, the mad movement of the poplars alongside, were all she had for answer, as they dashed on. No word came from the silent shape in front.
He was in Confederate field uniform, the insignia on his collar that of a major, a tall, broad-shouldered man, with abundant hair and an aggressive expression. The woman glanced up, but he closed the door, shutting out a jangle of voices, before speaking. "What was it? You sent for me?" She rose to her feet, and came a step forward, my heart leapt into my throat, my fingers gripped the rail.
"The operator here is a witness. I 'll send the money to-night, and have a tenant in the house Tuesday. Good night, Deacon." "If yer " The rest of the sentence faded into the jangle of the line, but Donaldson broke in again. "Say, Deacon, were you really in bed at this time of night?" "Gol darn " "Careful! Careful!" "Wall, ye need n't think cause ye 're in N' York ye can be so all-fired smart."
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