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With a threatening gesture of his hand, he turned from the door, and Ferrier heard his heavy step scrunching along the shingly path. He was still sitting with his elbows upon his knees, considering how he should broach the matter to his daughter when a soft hand was laid upon his, and looking up, he saw her standing beside him.
He looked at the pistol dubiously, pointed it at a heavy casting of iron resting in one corner of the room, and turned the ray at low concentration, then pressed the trigger-button. The casting gave out a low, scrunching grind, and slid toward him with a lurch. Instantly he shut off the power. "This isn't any ordinary pistol. It's got seven or eight times the ordinary power!" he exclaimed.
All at once I began biting something hard, there was a sound of a scrunching. "Ha, ha! He is eating the shells," laughed the crowd. "Little silly, do you suppose you can eat that?" After that I remember a terrible thirst. I was lying in my bed, and could not sleep for heartburn and the strange taste in my parched mouth. My father was walking up and down, gesticulating with his hands.
The position was a terribly strained one, and time after time his teeth slipped and met with a scrunching jar upon the metal. Then he leaped up and swung head downwards, gripping the bars with all four feet. In this position he could at least nip the cross-piece, and worry it with his teeth. Every muscle of his small body was strained to the utmost.
Next morning, when the locomobile was pulled out, a strange rattling, scrunching sound was heard on the threshold of the shed. "Something has got under the wheels," said the foreman. Paul looked. There, in a heap of little fragments, broken in half, and pressed quite flat, lay Elsbeth's flute.
The snow had equalised the race. And this was the end the hare not hurt at all. He would look again at her presently. It had been a pretty sight: Nature's working; no real cruelty in any of it. Such were the thoughts that were passing in the tall man's mind. All turned homeward after that, the Over-Lord's feet scrunching the snow as he took great strides, a smile lighting up his face.
Tack-tap, tack-tap, tack, tack, tack, tack, tap as if the devil was hammering nails into the hills. Then a hurricane of tacking, running round all Ladysmith, running together into a scrunching roar. From the hill above Mulberry Grove you can see every shell drop; but of this there was no sign only noise and furious heart-beats.
"Easy there!" screamed Matthews from his perch forwards, not to be outdone; while the boatswain was singing out for a "fender" to guard the ship's bows from scrunching against the dock wall, and Tom Jerrold overseeing the men at the bollard on the wharf calling out to them to "belay!" as her head swung a bit.
"She gave me a knife my last birthday," said Edward, moodily, never budging. "It wasn't much of a knife but I wish I hadn't lost it." "When my legs used to ache," I said, "she sat up half the night, rubbing stuff on them. I forgot all about that till this morning." "There's the fly!" cried Harold suddenly. "I can hear it scrunching on the gravel."
The girl cried out, but didn't know it, and crouched low; the horn added a squawk of frenzy to a wild clamour of yells; all prefatory to a scrunching, rending crash as, in the very mouth of the gateway, a front fender of the incoming car ripped through the rear fender above which Sofia was sitting.
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