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In the stress and strain of conflict, when the air is dimmed with the dust of the contending forces and the vision grows confused, it is a saving sound to hear the ringing call of Duty, from the hills where One watcheth over the battlefield. When sore pressed by the foe, it may prove our victory to fall back against the strong stone wall of an external authority, that can hold our lines unbroken.
The streets were full of flowers and gay with flying flags; bells were ringing and bands of music playing; and at the earliest dawn the levee was black with a dense crowd of excited men.
Now and then there burst forth the ringing sound of laughter front an enclosed division of the place where were confined a whole bevy of Nubian damsels, flat-nostriled and curly-headed, but as slight and fine-limbed as blocks of polished ebony. They were lying negligently about, in postures that would have taken a painter's eye, but we have naught to do with then at this time.
His Lordship then addressed Georges in a voice as soft and unctuous as it had before been ringing and enthusiastic.
And meantime the dishonouring shout of the newspaper hawkers, that cry in which there was both smirch and buffet, seemed like the last knell of the day, ringing the nation's funeral at the outset of the night of pleasure which was beginning. Then Pierre once more remembered his morning and that frightful house in the Rue des Saules, where so much want and suffering were heaped up.
Then, in burning words, he exhorted all the followers of Serapis to fight and conquer for their god, or if need must to perish for and with him. He added a fervent prayer in a loud ringing voice a cry for help that came from the bottom of his heart, and went to the souls of his hearers.
The crowd of citizens following at a little distance, excited by the news with which the city was now ringing, mingled with Maurice's gentlemen and bodyguards and surged up almost into the Ambassador's doors. Carleton informed his guests, in the course of conversation, as to the general opinion of indifferent judges of these events.
Were they relying as we were relying on Dreadnoughts, or had they their secrets and surprises for us? To-night, perhaps, the great ships were steaming to conflict.... To-night all over the world ships must be in flight and ships pursuing; ten thousand towns must be ringing with the immediate excitement of war.... Only a year ago Mr.
He was gone with those broken sentences ringing in his ears casual and yet haunting meaningless and yet more than pregnant creeping through the magic music of the afternoon, as a death-motive breathes in a love-chant. After a night of little sleep and much thinking he determined to listen to nothing but the love-chant.
The awful groans and cries of Manuelito were still ringing in his ears, and, to himself, the old soldier confessed that his nerve was not a little tried by the fearful sights and sounds of the early evening.
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