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The one was a delicious drawl; the other had been the guttural rasp and click of the kitchen and the bazaar. So she moved off, and, in a little, the second woman disappeared into the crowd. Most likely it was no more than some question of the programme or dress, but the prompt, feline stealth and coolness of it, the lightning-quick return to and from world-apart civilisations stuck in my memory.
But others were of different sort; simple fellows unused to pain, accustomed to the bill-hook, perhaps, or rasp of the knuckles in a quick-set hedge, or making some to-do at breakfast, over a thumb cut in sharpening a scythe, and expecting their wives to make more to-do.
It gave out a noise that reminded Rick of a wood rasp rubbing over a piece of broken pine. The cat was purring! Barby had stamped her foot angrily at the sight of Dismal being forced to retreat to the house, but the cat was too much for her. "You beautiful thing!" she exclaimed, and picked the creature up. It responded by purring louder. Rick grinned.
It was the moment of test, whereby the lone white man was to live or be lost. "Ten fella three times, Billy," Sheldon said encouragingly, though there was a certain metallic rasp in his voice. Billy scowled, looked up and looked down, but did not move. "Billy!" Sheldon's voice exploded like a pistol shot. The savage started physically.
To reach it he passed the gates of 'Sylvania, and observed above the lawn wall a board announcing that the house was to be let furnished. A few steps further revealed the cottage which with its quaint and massive stone features of two or three centuries' antiquity, was capable even now of longer resistance to the rasp of Time than ordinary new erections.
I ordered him to strip, and we made a second exchange as quickly as possible. The rasp of his own "greyback" shirt and the squeak of his boots seemed to bring him to himself. He put his hands before his eyes and said "Wot was it? I ain't mad, I ain't sunstrook, an' I've bin an' gone an' said, an' bin an' gone an' done.... Wot 'ave I bin an' done!" "Fwhat have you done?" said Mulvaney.
With infinite labor, Drew turned his head. He felt the rasp of grit on the skin of his burned cheek, and that small pain became a part of the larger. He opened his eyes, setting his teeth against a wave of nausea, and tried to understand what had happened to him. Water washed over his legs and boots, numbing him to the waist.
I repeated it once more when Britton returned from town and assured me that they had not missed the train. "That's what I'd like to say, sir," said he. "Well, say it," said I. And he said it so vociferously that I know it must have been heard in the remotest corners of heaven. The merry song of the hammer and the sweet rasp of the saw greeted my delighted ear as I entered the castle.
'There! said Mrs Prig, 'that's the way he's been a-conductin of himself, Sarah, ever since I got him out of bed, if you'll believe it. 'Instead of being grateful, Mrs Gamp observed, 'for all our little ways. Oh, fie for shame, sir, fie for shame! Here Mrs Prig seized the patient by the chin, and began to rasp his unhappy head with a hair-brush.
The katydids rasp away in the fall as long as there is warmth enough to keep them going; as the heat fails, they fail, till from the emphatic "Katy did it" of August they dwindle to a hoarse, dying, "Kate, Kate," in October. Think of the stillness that falls upon the myriad wood-borers in the dry trees and stumps in the forest as the chill of autumn comes on.
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