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Now the wasted brands do glow, While the screech-owl, sounding loud, Puts the wretch that lies in woe, In remembrance of a shroud. Now it is the time of night That the graves, all gaping wide, Every one lets out its sprite, In the church-way paths to glide. Before the gate of the palace the guards were now doubled.
"Well, cousin Indigo, what is the matter?" said Percy; "you look as if this world was a howling wilderness, and you wanted to howl too. What, crying over that bird? Poh! I can buy you a screech-owl any time, that will make twice the noise he could in his best days. Come, hurry, and put your things on!" Susy buried her face in her apron. "I'll compose a dirge for him," said Percy.
The Boy accordingly mounted the Pulpit, and with a very audible Voice read as follows. Sir Roger de Coverly's Country Seat Yes, for I hate long Speeches Query, if a good Christian may be a Conjurer Childermas-day, Saltseller, House-Dog, Screech-owl, Cricket Mr. Thomas Inkle of London, in the good Ship called The Achilles.
I have got my sap all boiled in, and as I felt kinder lonesome, I thought I would come across, and sleep by your shanty fire." The old man enquired why I seemed so much terrified, and my brothers told him that I would persist in calling a screech-owl, a catamount.
"I hope so," replied the other decidedly; "we shall then be able to get on the right trail for home. This is jolly miserable. O oh!" The girl's exclamation was one of horror. A screech-owl had just sent its dreadful note in melancholy waves out upon the still night air. It started low, almost pianissimo, rose with a hideous crescendo to fortissimo, and then died away like the wail of a lost soul.
He thought of the beautiful pale woman whom he loved, who had given him one last moment of ecstatic joy in life before death claimed him. Had she too gone to her rest? The little weapon gave a faint report. The screech-owl fluttered out of its cranny in the wall. With an apprehensive beat of its wings it sailed off over the deserted village and sent forth its piteous cry.
The bride, I now find, is no less a personage than the daughter of En-Noor, a full-grown desert princess. The Sfaxee and several other foreign merchants fired in the evening salutes in honour of the occasion. The drum was again kept beating all night, accompanied again by the crickets and the screech-owl. Oh for a quiet sleep! 28th.
Nor did the island deserve the harsh name bestowed upon it, and which originated in the following incident: A screech-owl had perched above the head of one of the Beagle's sailors who slept under a tree outside the hut, and awakened him with its lugubrious "whoo-woo-woah!" and so frightened the superstitious tar, that he believed himself hailed by one of the malevolent deities of weird Fireland!
The long, sallow visage, the goggle eyes, the huge under-jaw, which appeared not to open and shut by an act of volition, but to be dropped and hoisted up again by some complicated machinery within the inner man, the harsh and dissonant voice, and the screech-owl notes to which it was exalted when he was exhorted to pronounce more distinctly, all added fresh subject for mirth to the torn cloak and shattered shoe, which have afforded legitimate subjects of raillery against the poor scholar from Juvenal's time downward.
"I'm not in the least tired, show me the way to Talvig, where that old screech-owl lives, and I'll go there straight as a gun! Shouldn't wonder if she has not forced away her grandchild, in which case Miss Thelma may have gone after her." "I'll come with you!" said Errington. "Let's lose no time about it." But Gueldmar shook his head. "'Tis a long way, my lads, and you do not know the road.
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