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"Very well," said he; "if you enjoy the publicity of the open hall, no one here will object. Is not that so, gentlemen?" Her two little fingers, which were turned towards Frederick, ran up and down the rail, making a peculiar rasping noise, which for a moment was the only sound to be heard. Then Mr.
Mamie Magen sighed, and "Esther," she said, in a voice which must naturally have been rasping, but which she had apparently learned to control like a violin "Esther dear, if you could ever understand what offices have done for me! On the East Side always it was work and work and watch all the pretty girls in our block get T.
He had just begun to wonder how long they must wait when Queex again went into action. Its clawed front legs upraised, it brought the pinchers deliberately together and sawed one across the other, producing a rasping sound which was almost a vibration in the air. Back and forth, back and forth, moved the claws.
He leaned forward as he spoke, his hands on the arm of the chair; and his eyes growing each instant smaller, seemed to read my soul. 'Because I have let him go, I repeated. 'And why? he said, in a voice like the rasping of a file. 'Because I took him unfairly, I answered. 'Because, Monseigneur, I am a gentleman, and this task should have been given to one who was not.
His deeply grooved, narrow, thin face was yet more elongated by the extension of a high forehead into a bald crown, for he wore his broad wool hat on the back of his head. There was something in his countenance not dissimilar to the facial contour of a grasshopper, and the suggestion was heightened by his persistent, rasping chirp.
Slipping from her horse's back, she groped her way forward, leading the pony, and trying to shout. For a rod or more she battled against the driving dust, then halted as before. Not another sound would the desert render up only the strange dry swishing by of the particles of stuff rasping the desert's surface as they passed and rose. "Barney!" she called, by a mighty effort. There was no response.
Foully murdered, with a score of wounds upon him and a rope round his neck, his poor friend had been cast from the upper window and swung slowly in the night wind, his body rasping against the wall and his disfigured face upon a level with the casement. "My God!" cried Alleyne, shaking in every limb. "What has come upon us? What devil's deed is this?"
'No! said lawyer Dempster, in a loud, rasping, oratorical tone, struggling against chronic huskiness, 'as long as my Maker grants me power of voice and power of intellect, I will take every legal means to resist the introduction of demoralizing, methodistical doctrine into this parish; I will not supinely suffer an insult to be inflicted on our venerable pastor, who has given us sound instruction for half a century.
Give it up, or this night thy soul shall be required of thee, and all the devils in hell shall play at ball with it in the midst of the flames." Several men, each convinced that finger had threatened him, rose to their feet and struggled towards the penitents' pew, the tears streaming down their drawn faces, their breath rasping as though they had been running.
"It was the bad Indians who fired through the window at me, and I fired at them: you were sleeping so soundly that you only half awoke; but you must keep still a few minutes longer." "I thought that was you on the roof," she added, in a lower voice. That there was someone overhead was certain. The rasping sound of a person moving carefully along the peak of the roof was audible.
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