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In his eagerness to escape the fall of the barn the German cadet had plunged into the hay open-mouthed, and now some of the stuff had entered his throat and was almost choking him. "Clap him on the back!" cried Dick, and Tom did as requested. Then came several gulps and Hans began to cough. But the danger from strangulation was over.
"What in Heaven's name do you mean by that?" "I mean what I say," said Mary staunchly, though she turned a still deeper red. "Oh, you might just as well be angry with yourself for being so blind and stupid." "Do you mean to tell me you were aware of something?" Mahony stopped short in his perambulations and fixed her, open-mouthed. "I couldn't help it. Not that there was much to know, Richard.
"Thank you, very much," returned Walter, "you are most kind and hospitable, but I cannot think of intruding upon your hospitality." And with a bow directed toward her and her spouse, he turned and left the room, the rest of his party following and leaving the little crowd of Germans gazing at each other and the waxen figures in wide-eyed, open-mouthed astonishment.
"I don't mind a bit." The evening was dark and rather foggy, so that the strange couple attracted little attention, except when passing beneath the street lamps. Then certainly people stood still and looked at William and his cart in open-mouthed amazement. At last they turned down a back street towards a door that stood open to the dark, foggy night.
Do not the entire audience, moved by one common impulse, declare him three times running, and in stentorian voice, to be this "jolly good fellow"? So say all of them. We have always listened with the most intense pleasure to the brilliant speech of our friend who has just sat down. When you thought we were yawning, we were drinking in his eloquence, open-mouthed.
Then was there much mirth, as the rogue thus waked on a sudden from his sleep let the water drip off him in dull astonishment, and stared at us open-mouthed; and it needed some patience till he was able to tell us of many matters which we afterwards heard at greater length and in fuller detail.
Awe-struck and open-mouthed we listened while the lady prayed aloud and with a good deal of pathos for many virtues and blessings which I do not now remember, and finally for my father and mother and for both of us shortly afterwards she rose, blew out the light and got into bed. Every word that she said had confirmed our worst apprehensions: it was just what we had been taught to say ourselves.
The big baas was lying across the table, a prone, stricken figure, with his head upon his arms. For a few seconds she stood in open-mouthed dismay, thinking him dead; for she had never seen him thus in life. Then she saw his shoulders heave convulsively, and promptly she turned and fled. Again the bungalow was empty and still, the hours dragged on unheeded.
"That was what made me fall into the water all right. But what I want to know is what was it?" "I don't know," said Betty, shaking her head. "I didn't see it." "Neither did I," Grace added. Mollie looked from one to the other of them open-mouthed. Then she turned to Amy, "You saw it, didn't you?" she asked. "You screamed, you know."
Davis uttered a sharp exclamation, and, falling back a step, stared at her open-mouthed. "We all make mistakes," urged Mr. Wotton, after a long silence, "and Ben's sight ain't wot it used to be. He strained it looking out for a sail when we was on that desert " "When when'll she be back?" inquired Mr. Davis, finding his voice at last. The old lady affected to look puzzled.
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