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"The locusts are all in one corner!" shouted Crayford. "What's the use of that? They must spread." "Spread your locusts!" bawled Mr. Mulworth. He lifted both his arms in a semaphore movement, which he continued until it seemed as if his physical mechanism had escaped from the control of his brain. "Spread your locusts, Jimber!" he wailed. "Spread! Spread! I tell you spread your locusts!"
"By George, Harry," said Jones, the signalman, "there's a bolt!" The semaphore signalled again: "Number 1411". "WITH ARMS!" Jones said, translating as he read. "Come here, Harry! here's a go!" But Harry did not reply, and, looking down, the watchman saw a dark figure suddenly fill the doorway. The boasted semaphore had failed this time, at all events.
The First Lieutenant laughed, a sad, hard laugh without any laughter in it. "I don't amuse children, I'm afraid. In fact, I frighten them. They don't like my face. No, no " "Mr. Hornby," interposed the Skipper's Missus reproachfully, "that isn't quite true, is it? You know Jane prays for you nightly, and Corney wouldn't for worlds sleep without that wooden semaphore you made him "
As the captain's voice could not be heard half-way to the bow, even with the aid of the ancient speaking-trumpet, that instrument is supplanted by semaphore signals by day, and coloured lamps by night; the electric telegraph is also used in connection with the engine-rooms. There are ten anchors, four of them being Trotman's patent, weighing seven tons each.
Such was not his purpose, however, for, having attained his greatest possible altitude, he partially sat down and elevated his right arm after the manner of a semaphore. This semaphore arm remained rigid for a second, threatening; then it vibrated with inconceivable rapidity, feinting. But it was the treacherous left that did the work.
When the rays of its electric headlight pierced the Western night they shouted like boys, ran to the telephones, and while the roundhouse, the superintendent, and the master-mechanic were getting the news the Special engine steamed slowly into sight through the whirling snow and stopped at the semaphore.
He looked down at her curiously out of the tail of his eye but he said never a word. Indeed, Mary Rose gave him little opportunity for speech as she had so much to say. When they reached the corner where Anna Paulovitch waited across the street like a stolid figure of Patience, Mary Rose waved her hand. Anna Paulovitch responded like a semaphore. "That's Anna!
We shall now review our semaphore alphabet. Lineup! Troop, attention! Right dress!" When the meeting was over, Marjorie and Lily sauntered slowly back to their room. "I was so happy about Frieda," said Marjorie, a shade of discouragement creeping into her voice, "till Ruth threw such cold water on the project. Do you believe it will work out all right, Lil?"
I remember bracing myself to meet the shock. An end, thought I, of Duncan Meredyth. I saw Boyce leap aside like a flash and appear to stand stock-still. The next second I saw Marigold semaphore a few yards in front of the car and then swing sickeningly at the horse's bit; and then the whole lot of them, Marigold, horse and rider, come down in a convulsive heap on the greasy road.
He corrected this mistake of her eager haste to show her intelligence, and, taking the telescope, pointed out the other semaphore, a thin black outline on a distant inland hill. He then explained how HIS signs were repeated by that instrument to San Francisco. "My! Why, I always allowed that was only the cross stuck up in the Lone Mountain Cemetery," she said. "You are a Catholic?" "I reckon."
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