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Updated: June 12, 2025
Jacob Brinker, who was his road-mate, brought the news. Jacob Brinker was the last of the seven, and he was nearly ninety when he died, outliving Tromp a scant two years. I well remember the pair of them, toward the last, worn and feeble, in beggars' rags, with beggars' bowls, sunning themselves side by side on the cliffs, telling old stories and cackling shrill-voiced like children.
Here and there hang cages containing bright-colored singing birds, parrots, and paroquets, not forgetting to mention the clear, shrill-voiced mocking-bird, which is a universal favorite. The Mexican macaw is pretty sure to be represented by a fine member of his species in these ornamental patios. He is a gaudy, noisy fellow.
Picture all this confusion, and add the fact that the female characters of the play were represented by shrill-voiced lads or half-shaven men.
'My betters, scoffed the lady in blue, looking Kitty up and down with a disdainful smile on her painted face; 'where are they, I'd like to know? ''Ere, 'old your tongue, bleated Spilsby, angrily, 'or I'll tell the perlice at the corner. 'And much I care, retorted the shrill-voiced female, 'seeing he's a particular friend of mine.
Sylvia looked at the tall, dingy houses, the frowzy little shops, the swarms of dirty-nosed children, shrill-voiced, with matted hair, running and whooping in the street, at the slatternly women yelling unobeyed orders to them out of half-glimpsed, cheerless interiors, smelling of cabbage and dishwater.
Nothing not a breath of air was stirring. The gray light that flooded down from the stars showed not a break upon the surface of Magdalena Bay. On shore, nothing moved. "Quiet there, forward," called Moran to the shrill-voiced coolies. The succeeding stillness was profound. All on board listened intently.
I had played cards into debt and I still remember burningly how I went flushed and shrill-voiced to my mother and got the money she could so ill afford to give me. I would not pay such a debt of honour now. If I were to wake up one morning owing big sums that I had staked overnight I would set to work at once by every means in my power to evade and repudiate that obligation.
"I think it is not far from Colon," was the reply. "Do you know who these foreigners are?" "Japanese, I think." Ned was silent for a time, as if studying some proposition over in his mind. The boys in the cottage were stirring in their sleep, and a shrill-voiced bird in the jungle was calling to its mate. "What are you trying to get at?" Frank asked.
They talked together for a moment, and then one by one, at regular intervals, detached themselves and began circling at full speed to the left, throwing themselves behind their horses, and yelling shrill-voiced, but firing no shot as yet. "They'll rush us," speculated Alfred. "We're too few to monkey with this way. This is a bluff." The circle about the two was now complete.
The wonder increased; the wonder of the single and infinitely multitudinous adventure of mankind. "So God perhaps sees it," he whispered. "Look at this man," said the Angel, and the black shadow of a hand seemed to point. It was a Chinaman sitting with two others in a little low room separated by translucent paper windows from a noisy street of shrill-voiced people.
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