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Updated: June 8, 2025
They saw the plight of the Humming-Bird and determined to beat her. Tom cast a despairing look up at the motor. There was nothing to be done. He could not reach it In mid-air. He could only keep on, crippled as he was, and trust to luck. Andy passed by his rival with an evil smile on his ugly face. Then the Antoinette flashed by.
And then to open out his mind, and moved with pity for the multitude of people, by his miraculous power he rose in mid-air and with his hands appeared to grasp the sun and moon. Then he walked to and fro in space, and underwent all kinds of transformation, dividing his body into many parts, then joining all in one again.
He held her out at arm's length in mid-air, he poised her on his shoulder, he tossed her up into the low myrtle trees, and dangled her by her little belt over the claret-colored pools on the barren; but he could not frighten her: she only laughed and grew wilder and wilder, like a squirrel. "She has muscles and nerves of steel," he said admiringly.
Nearer to the fort Advancing, they beheld it in mid-air, But not a living thing nor gate, nor door; Yet they remained one week, hoping to find Some hidden inlet, suffering cruel loss Hour after hour but none could they descry. At length, despairing, they returned, worn out, Scorched, and half-dead with watching, care, and toil.
Crash came the last chord, and the poor flute, nearly half a page behind, was left shrilly hanging, in mid-air, forsaken and companionless, an object of derision to gods and men. 'Ah! I took it a little fast! said the lady, triumphantly looking up at the discomfited clergyman. 'Mr.
Wapoos, the rabbit, had run his furry head into the snare, and his first frightened jump had "shot" the sapling to which the copper wire was attached so that he was now hung half in mid-air, with only his hind feet touching the ground. And there he was dancing madly while the noose about his neck slowly choked him to death. Baree gave a sort of gasp.
A new weapon? Only the officer made no move to touch it to Ross, the hand merely moved in a series of waves in mid-air. Then the Rover spoke. "He carries no unlawful magic." Vistur nodded. "He's no Foanna. And what need have I to fear the spells of any coast crawler? I am Vistur!" Again the yells of his supporters arose in hearty answer.
Full before us quivered and danced, in the noon-day heat and mid-air, the green heights of New Jersey; and by an optical delusion, the blue sea seemed to flow under them. The sailors whistled and whistled for a wind; the impatient cabin- passengers were arrayed in their best; and the emigrants clustered around the bows, with eyes intent upon the long-sought land.
And they stood still to listen to the rumble of the wagon, and the rude, hearty chant that at intervals accompanied it: "Blest be the day that Christ was born! The last sheaf of Sandal corn Is well bound, and better shorn. Hip, hip, hurrah!" "Good-evening, squire." The speaker had come quickly around one of the garden hedges, and his voice seemed to fall out of mid-air.
Sometimes, too, by the hour he had ground his ice crystals to powder in mid-air and hurled them to the earth, covering its surface with a robe of purest white, thus proving that, with all his rudeness and bluster, he is an old gentleman of aesthetic tastes.
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