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from the troupe in full blast! The lawyer Pippin suddenly stood beside the despairing pedler, as this ominous ditty was poured upon the night-winds. "Do you hear that song, Bunce?" he asked. "How do you like the music?" The pedler looked in his face with a mixed expression of grief, anger, and stupidity, but he said nothing. "Hark ye, Bunce," continued the lawyer. "Do you know what that means?
As he spoke, the dense mass before us seemed agitated by some mighty commotion; the flashing of blades, and the rattling of small-arms, mingled with shouts of triumph or defiance, burst forth, and the ominous cloud lowering more darkly, seemed peopled by those in deadly strife.
The fact that grave events were taking place, seemed to exert a sobering influence on the populace, and they gathered in a dense throng around the Senate House, whence ominous rumours pursued each other in quick succession. "The Senate was in session. Hannibal was before them. Decius Magius had been arrested at his demand." So ran the talk.
More ominous still is the fact that in almost every place yet investigated the majority of the men were confessedly living in immorality amid the temptations of the base camps in France.
And there's one other thing I haven't told you yet. I couldn't, until after you had agreed to join. This may make you change your mind, which you are still at liberty to do." The cadet's throat tightened, and he moistened his lips as he saw the admiral's face grow ominous.
"'Bird or devil?" he quoted. The owl hooted once more, the strange ominous cry carrying far in the silence of the night. "Devil it is," said Harry, "and quoth your evil majesty 'never more. I won't be scared by a big owl playing the part of the raven. It's not 'nevermore' with me. I've many a good day ahead and don't you dare tell me I haven't."
An ominous incident of the time was the veiled warning which Cornstalk, the great Shawanoe chieftain, gave to Captain Thomas Bullitt, head of a party of royal surveyors, sent out by Lord Dunmore, Governor of Virginia.
It might seem so, at least, if the fiction of Dostoevsky were not there with an example exactly opposed to the manner of Tolstoy. The serene and impartial day that arches from verge to verge in War and Peace, the blackness that hems in the ominous circle of the Brothers Karamazov it is a perfect contrast.
Black Milsom! the face of Lady Eversleigh, pale before, grew almost ghastly in its pallor, as that hated name sounded in her ears, ominous as a death-knell. "Black Milsom!" she exclaimed at last. "If my child is in the power of that man, she is, indeed, lost." "You know him, my lady?" cried Andrew Larkspur, with surprise. "Ah, I remember, you seemed familiar with the details of the Jernam murder.
It was when she saw his wife's face ruefully attached to the quarter to which, in the course of their session, he had so significantly addressed his own it was then that Maggie could watch for its turning pale, it was then she seemed to know what she had meant by thinking of her, in she shadow of his most ominous reference, as "doomed."
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