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"Apparently, a minute wound on the left wrist," I replied, and, stooping, I raised the already cold hand in mine. A tiny, inflamed wound showed on the wrist; and a certain puffiness was becoming observable in the injured hand and arm. Smith bent down and drew a quick, sibilant breath. "You know what this is, Petrie?" he cried. "Certainly.
Suddenly it flashed across Ethel's mind that the speaker was Girasole, and that the words were addressed to her. Her impression was correct, and the speaker was Girasole. He had heard the sibilant sounds of the whispering, and, knowing that Minnie could not speak Italian, it had struck him as being a very singular thing that she should be whispering. Had her sister joined her?
A dim light dawned in the blackness of the room and the musical voice breathed in his ear: "Your reward shall be easily earned. I did but test you. Strike and strike truly!" The whisper grew sibilant serpentine. Dr. Cairn felt the hilt of a dagger thrust into his right hand, and in the dimly-mysterious light looked down at one who lay in a bed close beside him.
It first manifests itself by a short, dry, croupy cough, and hoarseness of the voice. The first difficulty in breathing usually takes place during the night, and once it begins, it rapidly gets worse. Inspiration becomes noisy, sometimes stridulous or metallic or sibilant, and there is marked indrawing of the epigastrium and lower intercostal spaces.
The fetid air hung motionless but sibilant with stealthy footsteps and whisperings.... Preferable to this seemed even the infinitely more dangerous and odorous Coolootollah purlieus into which they presently passed nesting place though it were for the city's most evil and desperate classes. In time broad Machua Bazaar Street received them Pink Satin and the sailorman out for a night of it.
Leaves rustled faintly outside the window at my back: I construed their sibilant whispers into the dreaded name Fu-Manchu-Fu-Manchu Fu-Manchu! So wore on the night; and, when the ticking clock hollowly boomed the hour of one, I almost leaped out of my chair, so highly strung were my nerves, and so appallingly did the sudden clangor beat upon them. Smith, like a man of stone, showed no sign.
They had both become aware of a sort of sibilant breathing, and they looked round them in bewilderment. 'Where is it? asked Maude. 'Frank, I believe it's a mouse. 'Hope for the best. Don't frighten yourself unnecessarily. I fancy it comes from under these curtains. He approached them with his candle, and was suddenly aware of a boot which was projecting from them.
A Chinese "boy" of indeterminable age, wearing a slop-shop suit and a cap, was waiting outside the door, and when Sin Sin Wa appeared, carefully locking up, he muttered something rapidly in his own sibilant language. Sin Sin Wa made no reply.
Other detached feathers were sprinkled about the floor. Feebly the raven's wings beat the ground once, twice and were still. Sin Sin Wa uttered one sibilant word, withdrew his hands from his sleeves, and, stepping around the end of the counter, dropped upon his knees beside the raven.
Karl's hands twitched and his features worked nervously. "He knows me too well, knows that if ever I lay hands on him again " His voice was rising to an hysterical pitch when the other checked him with a sibilant hiss. At the same time his hand darted out and switched off the light. Karl uttered a startled ejaculation. "Sssh!" his companion repeated.
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