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Again, I say, poor fellow! The woman opened the door, went to the other side of the room, and sat down on an old box and began darning an old neck-handkerchief. The silence was soon broken by the moans of the fast-dying man, and again he muttered, as he tossed to and fro, with baked white lips: "Je m'etoufee! Air!" There was no resisting that prayer, it seemed so like the last.
"But on the noontide of the moon, and when The wind is winged from one point of heaven, There moans a strange unearthly sound, which then Is musical-a dying accent driven Through the huge arch, which soars and sinks again. Some deem it but the distant echo given Back to the night wind by the waterfall, And harmonized by the old choral wall.
He would have hurled himself into the fight with bare fists, unmindful of the bursting of shells, the moans of the wounded. Oh no, he was not a coward. Not what those two men thought. He saw them wink scornfully and make fun of the unhappy old uncle of a reserve officer who sat in the corner like a bundle of misery. What did they know of his soul's bitterness?
Now, bring the heavy rods and beat him till he dies." The dreadful order was obeyed, and for a while nothing was heard save the sound of heavy blows and the smothered moans of the miserable Saturius. "Wretches," yelled the Imperial brute, "you are playing, you do not hit hard enough.
Come back when you grow a new fleece! and when I get home the wind moans down the chimney, 'O-o-o-gh-h! wha-a-t have you do-o-one with your summer's w-a-A-a-ges!" "Aw, sit down you're delayin' the game," said the Stockman. The Banker shoved over three stacks of patriotically assorted colors and made a memorandum.
I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another instance. Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have stayed in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal.
The wild sounds which you hear are the unseen dashings of its never-ceasing waves, and the moans of those who have fallen victims to its merciless currents." Miss Church-Member is now induced to frequent the haunts of vice in the "Wicked Valley." The blessed work of Warning as given by rescue bands from the King's Highway. The heedless throngs passing by. The experiences at this place of Mr.
As with one accord, a long wail arose from them, swelled to despairing volume, ascended to desperate heights. "Now!" Frank ordered. They had thought the girls securely tied. Clara fought like a leopardess, scratching and biting. Lulu struggled like a caged eagle, hysteria mounting in her all the time until the room was filled with her moans. Peachy beat herself against the wall like a maniac.
His looks, his gestures and his cries all conspire to entreat you to take pity on him. These are the only weapons of defence which Nature hath given him. While other animals assemble in herds, or in pairs range through these boundless wilds, the sloth is solitary and almost stationary; he cannot escape from you. It is said his piteous moans make the tiger relent and turn out of the way.
You have put us all into the blues by the uncanny cries and moans that have proceeded from your fiddle! What is the matter with you? I could not answer him, Philip was picking up and replacing my violin in its case, after which he laid his hand on my arm. 'Come into the library with me. I followed him; he stirred up the fire, which was nearly out, and then drew me to him.
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