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He did not attempt to cry them down; the effort would have been in vain. Suddenly a wild, happy light came into his anxious, searching eyes. He gave a mighty shout and raised his hands, commanding silence. Selim, clinging to his side, also had seen the sky-rocket which arose up from the château and dropped almost instantly into the wall of trees.
'Ah, your majesty, they have been scattered day and night upon the sea, except when the sky was overcast, slyly answered Maie. 'I'll teach you! roared the sea-king; and with that he gave the fiddle such a 'puff' that it sent the old woman up like a sky-rocket on to her island. There Prince lay, as famished as ever, gnawing the carcase of a crow.
Toward morning a shot fell apparently just where they were at work; and that being accompanied by what we afterward ascertained caused more horror and consternation among the enemy than any thing else, a common signal sky-rocket, made them resign the ground entirely to us. The last shot, too, that was fired from the pinnace had killed three men.
The following conditions were drawn up; and a lad, with a white handkerchief tied to a sky-rocket stick, was hoisted over the benches into the besieging quarters. The young gentlemen shall be permitted, as in times past, to discharge their fireworks round what remains of the bonfire, between the hours of nine and eleven o'clock. Ans.
I thought one old lady was staring hard at you, as if she meant to claim acquaintance, but you shot out of the shop like a sky-rocket. 'Luckily there's no danger of that. No one will come to molest us here. 'Depend on it, they are meditating a descent on his lordship. 'You shall appear in my name, then. 'Too like a bad novel: besides, you don't look respectable enough for my tutor.
In the fading light I caught a glimpse of her face, and I was out of the shadow and by her side like a sky-rocket. "'Let her go! I said shortly. 'Before I mop out the gutter with you. "The man turned on me. "'Who the devil "'That's enough!
Suddenly Harboro sat more erect. A shout had arisen over in the corral, and a murmur higher and more sinister than the dominant note of the place grew steadily in intensity. It came to a full stop when a pistol-shot arose above the lesser noises like a sky-rocket. "He's getting his work in," commented Harboro. He spoke to himself. He had forgotten Sylvia for the moment. "He? Who?" inquired Sylvia.
'How many meals d'ye reckon to eat between this and Tim Brady's? I went on, just poking my fun at him, when would ye believe it? the old fellow fired up like a sky-rocket, and asked me if I grudged him the bit of food he ate, and Heaven knows what besides. 'Is it Dennis O'Moore you're speaking to? says I, for I've not got the squire's easy temper, GOD forgive me!
Draped down to the wheels with bunting of dark blue or of orange and black the tally-hos drew up before the portico and were soon topped with eager, ardent youth. As they were whirled away up the Avenue there broke out upon the autumn air the sharp "Brek-a Coex-Coex-Coex" of Yale, or the sky-rocket of Princeton.
A Russian Princess Galitzin, too, demands to see me in the heroic vein; "Elle vouloit traverser les mers pour aller voir S.W.S.," and offers me a rendezvous at my hotel. This is precious tomfoolery; however, it is better than being neglected like a fallen sky-rocket, which seemed like to be my fate last year. We went to Saint Cloud with my old friend Mr.
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