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Updated: May 23, 2025
Mind, I am not going to have them racketing about the house and garden, disturbing you, and worrying the maids. 'Aunt Jane! cried Gillian indignantly, 'you don't think that is the way mamma brought us up to spend Sunday?
"Aloha," Joe Burke said and took his stand beside them. Every Story is a Love Story A red MG came racketing around the corner. It passed, stopped, and reversed, one front fender swinging freely. "Where you going?" The driver had wild eyes and a two day growth. "Woodstock." "Get in, get in." Patrick lowered himself into the small seat, holding his AWOL bag on his lap.
Since the reason could not be explained without going into family history, Soames merely answered: "Racketing about. There's too much of it." "I like that little Mrs. Val; she is very quiet and clever." "I know nothing of her except This thing's new." And Soames took up a creation from the bed. Annette received it from him. "Would you hook me?" she said. Soames hooked.
There was a yell, a scream, that echoed out, reverberated, and went racketing through the house, and Jimmie Dale leaped forward over a table, sending it crashing to the floor. The man had reeled back against the wall, clutching at a shattered wrist, staring into the flashlight's eye, white-faced, jaw dropped, lips working in mingled pain and fear. "Harve Thoms you, eh?" gritted Jimmie Dale.
A quiet country house instead of a season's racketing was quite to her taste, and she felt dear Henry, as ever, was showing the marked common sense for which she humbly worshipped him afar off. Meryl looked at her father inquiringly and with a thoughtful air. Diana remarked, rather disgustedly, "O, uncle, what rot!
Come back, miss!" ordered the station-master, seizing the arm of an indignant Britisher. "It's no use trying to stop them; they go like this sometimes, quite mad, generally when they've sighted a thief or somebody against whom they have some grudge. Let them pass, sir; let them pass." The station-yard was packed with vehicles, motors, omnibuses, and scores of rattling, racketing native carts.
A coastal collier, racketing into port in the quiet of evening, brought the tale of a seaplane that narrowly missed crashing into her deck house. Long after it was out of sight the crew heard its engines droning overhead. Then for a while there was silence during which a curious pinkish glow appeared to the starboard and died away.
"Nothing, since yesterday noon, and very little then. I didn't eat anything at the Cote Dorion, I remember." He lay back on the couch and closed his eyes. The throbbing in his head presently stopped, and he felt that if he ate something he could go to sleep again, it was so restful in this place a whole day's sleep and rest, how good it would be after last night's racketing!
There was a flash in mid-air, the roar of the report went racketing through the silent house, and the revolver, spinning from the other's hands, struck against the wall across the room. And then Jimmie Dale had the boy by the shoulders, and was shaking him violently. Clarie Archman was like one stunned, numbed, and bereft of his senses. "It's all right you're clear!
Mother Bunch's sister ruled, like a true monarch, over this mad revelry, which her very presence seemed to inspire, such influence had her own mirth and animation over all that surrounded her. She was a tall girl of about twenty years of age, light and graceful, with regular features, and a merry, racketing air.
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