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But Raffles paid no attention to their fire; he was pointing downward through the bushes to where Corporal Connal stood with his back to us, shooing a last charger out of the mouth of the donga towards the Boer trenches. "That's his third," whispered Raffles, "but it's the first I've seen distinctly, for he waited for the blind spot before the dawn.
"Well, then," I said as Bhima Gandharva finished communicating this information to me, "we are all here." "How?" "There stand you, a philosopher; here I, a stranger; yonder, the policeman; and, heavens and earth! what a rat!" I accompanied this exclamation by shooing a big musky fellow from behind a bale of cotton whither I had just seen him run.
How tired the poor girl was of the dull life about her, the old woman's "skeleton hand" at the window opposite, drawing her curtains, "Ma'am shooing away the hens," the vacuous country eyes staring at her as only country eyes can stare, a routine of mechanical duties, and the soul's half-articulated cry for sympathy, without an answer! Yes, pray for her, and for all such!
In the interim, whilst I was disputing with the soldiers, one of them called Southall came in the ffould and asked a smith, as hee was shooing horses there, if he could tell where the King was, and he should have "a thousand pounds for his payns...." This Southall was a great priest-catcher.
That little minx is crazy about Gordon, though. I could see that." "Um!" "And the worst of it is that she just fits into the scenery here, and I don't. You know, father, I never could wax enthusiastic over shooing the cows to roost and things like that." "Um!" "I feel like a deaf person at a concert, here in this town." This remark brought a wry laugh from her father, and Helen smiled.
When Senator Winter demanded proscription and vengeance against the leaders of the Confederacy, the President shook his head: "No let down the bars let them all go scare them off!" He threw up his big hands in a vivid gesture as if he were shooing a flock of troublesome sheep out of his garden. "Triumphant now, you will receive our enemies with open arms?" the Senator sneered. "Enemies?
The infant's weight was considerable; it exceeded Tom's estimate, with the result that, in the desperate process of extracting the baby from the cradle, the cradle had been overset, and now lay on its beam-ends. 'Hsh hsh! Tom entreated, shooing and balancing as best he could. Then, without warning, Tom's spirit leapt into anger.
And when at eight-thirty you are playing the Victor, I am drinking a cocktail to you, and shooing away the Colonels and Admirals who interfere with my ceremony of drinking to my dear wife. VERA CRUZ, May 20th, 1914. DEAREST WIFE: I got SUCH a bully letter yesterday from you, written long ago from the Webster.
She felt, rather hopelessly, that he was wrong, but that he was right, too. The grounds were private property. She sat back and watched. Pink was angry. She could hear his voice, see his gestures. He was shooing them off like a lot of chickens, and they were laughing. The game had stopped, and the side lines were pressing forward.
Searching the forest behind him for any sign of danger, he moved away from the buck and remained standing, patient but alert, leaving the other to eat his fill. He worked hard and diligently with the hunter's knife, trying at the same time not to jerk the carcass, which might arouse the tiger, at intervals shooing away the cub.
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