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The veins on the negro general's bull neck began to swell, and he turned and called Manuel, "Pale Toad!" A moment after, his raucous voice insulted the Englishman with the description, "Snake that does not even hiss!" Stuart expected to see violence follow these words, but the Cuban only moved restlessly under the insult; the Englishman smiled.

But the driver comes at you honking, squawking, and you turn out. You have to, unless the Ford does; and Fords don't. A Ford will send a twin-six swerving sharply to the edge of a ditch, and even Casey Ryan must swing his leaders to the right in obedience to that raucous command. Once Casey didn't.

As soon as the raucous horns blared out and the tom-toms began throbbing in their maddening, syncopated rhythm, the pandemonium that ensued, when thirty men, whirling themselves in circles with a prodigious clatter of metals, began shrieking like devils possessed, as they leaped into the air, was quite sufficient to account for the terror of the Cingalee servants, who ran and hid themselves, convinced that they were face to face with real demons escaped from the Pit.

He came a step nearer to Mainwaring and bent forward toward him, and there was something so strange and ominous in his bearing that the lieutenant instinctively drew back a little where he sat. "Captain Scarfield sent something to you," said Eleazer, almost in a raucous voice, "something that you will be surprised to see."

The days were still hot, but at night there was a bracing something in the air that stirred the blood, and Peter found a sharp, new note in the voices of the wild. The wolf howled again in the middle of the night. The loon forgot his love-sickness, and screamed raucous defiance at the moon.

Adler was swaying in his place with excitement. "Three whalers," he repeated, "close in. They've put off oh, my God! Listen to that." The unmistakable sound of a steamer's whistle, raucous and prolonged, came to their ears from the direction of the coast. One of the men broke into a feeble cheer. The whole tent was rousing up. Again and again came the hoarse, insistent cry of the whistle.

His power lay not so much in his gesture, which was poor, stilted, and rarely in harmony with the, words, not so much in his speech, which was raucous and sibilant, with marked pauses for breathing, as in his personality and the emphatic assurance and force of will which emanated from it.

In his most raucous tones he continued this lament for his master until at last Hardy gathered him up and held him to his breast. "Ah, Kitty, Kitty," he said, and at the caressing note in his voice the black cat began to purr hoarsely, raising his scrawny head in the ecstasy of being loved.

From these places, as de Batz strode rapidly by, came sounds of loud voices, rendered raucous by outdoor oratory; volleys of oaths hurled irreverently in the midst of impassioned speeches; interruptions from rowdy audiences that vied with the speaker in invectives and blasphemies; wordy war-fares that ended in noisy vituperations; accusations hurled through the air heavy with tobacco smoke and the fumes of cheap wines and of raw spirits.

Before she realised what was happening her escort flashed past and wheeled in behind her, shooting steadily at the horde of men who poured in upon them, and, with a groan, Gaston seized her bridle and urged the horses back in the direction from which they had come. The noise was deafening, the raucous shouting of the Arabs and the continuous sharp crack of the rifles.