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Madame Virginie rose with a little shriek: "Alphonse! Oh, my God! Monsieur Alphonse is ill." He slipped off his chair; his shoulders went up and his head fell on one side. He remained sitting on the floor, with his back against the chair. There was a movement among those nearest; the doctor sprang over and knelt beside him. When he looked in Alphonse's face he started a little.
It may be that the jay in freedom disturbs other birds, as has been affirmed, but among a number smaller than himself my bird has never once shown the least hostility. He is interested in their doings, but the only unpleasant thing he has done is to shriek and scream to stop their singing.
Could any being in the form of man, as he beheld that young creature in all her maiden beauty, utter that word? Could those swarthy soldiers, savage as they looked, pull a trigger to deprive her of life? Yes! and the officer who perhaps was a husband, perhaps a father in a loud voice, which sounded to me like the shriek of a demon, gave the order to fire.
"Are they thinking of me? Are they happy?" And as these questions suggested many others, she sank into a profound reverie. Suddenly the wind gave a loud shriek without, and the branches of the trees in the garden creaked and groaned as the tempest buffeted them and tossed them to and fro. Dolores shivered, partly from fear, partly from nervousness.
"Stand back, whoever you are, or I must fire!" he shouted, at the same time leaping on one side, away from the spot where he had been lying. There was the sound of feet, as if a person was springing over the ground, a shriek, and the crash of a weapon descending. Yes, he was certain it had struck his saddle-bags.
I'll have you whipped." His cracked voice rose to a shrill shriek as he uttered the threat. The slumbrous fire in the woman's eyes flamed up for a moment. She rose, and drawing herself up to her full height, which was greater than the old man's, made some incoherent sounds, and bent upon him a look beneath which he quailed.
But events were moving swiftly, almost to the verge of confusion. He got no further. At that instant a piercing feminine shriek rose in some remote part of the house.
All this clamor of the streets, this going to and fro of people, the roar of traffic, the shriek of whistles, the ringing of bells had he not known them all in London when Lois was his friend and old Paul his neighbor? There had been many Poles by Thrawl Street and the harsh music of their tongue came to him as an old friend.
Suppressing a strong desire to shriek, and recovering himself, he touched his hat and said, 'Mr. Buckner, will you step up here, sir, if you please? "'What is she, Edwards? said Buckner, as he quickly mounted the hammock-rail. "One look, a dip down, a shiver, and, O Lord! what did he see but old Sadler standing straight as a ramrod, and heading right for the ship!
Loud as was the report of the gun, those who were appointed to the unpleasant duty of running aft with the rope on the main-deck, which swung Peters to the yard-arm, heard a shriek that even that deafening noise could not overpower. It was the soul of Ellen joining that of her husband and, before the day closed, their bodies were consigned to the same grave
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