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They turned slightly to their right, and crept through the mass of trees not yet levelled by the gun-fire of either of the combatants different, indeed, from the Bois des Caures and the Herbebois, where gigantic German shells had sent trees and earth hurtling skywards, had severed trunks in all directions, and had left but a tangled mass of fallen tree-tops and shattered stumps, smouldering here and there, and masking the trenches and dug-outs and redoubts obliterated during the earlier fighting, masking, too, the bodies of those gallant Frenchmen who had given their lives for the cause, and of the Germans, who had fought to achieve the ambitions of their Kaiser.
There had been a grey, slanting ghost-swish above, and his brother had vanished skywards from within an inch of his side. He had turned to stone before two ice-cold eyes, and realized the honest yard of snake behind them. A stoat had passed him with its mouth too full to snap and all within two fields. Mus ridiculus!
The freshness of the air, the raciness of the earth, the green of grass and trees, the laughing sunlight, one might have fancied it was the spirits of all these singing together in unison. "It's a skylark, sure enough," said Anthony, looking skywards. "But where the mischief is he?" And they gave eyes and ears to trying to determine, searching the empyrean.
She could only look skywards, and try to find a break in the dun clouds; or else over to the horizon, to see something ever so faint and small a something breaking the line of water and sky. The men on board apparently knew Mr. Dugdale, and he them. They worked with a respectful solemnity, as if aware of their sad errand.
The darkness was thick, but it seemed to her frowning eyes that he had foreseen the shot at the second before it was fired and had swung his shoulders to the side so that it cut by him without touching him. Again she fired; but now he was upon her and his hand had struck the pistol aside so that the questing bullet sped skywards.
George said, with a puff of his cigar, which went soaring up skywards. "How delicious they smell in the open air! I adore them. Who'd think the moon was two hundred and thirty-six thousand eight hundred and forty-seven miles off?" Becky added, gazing at that orb with a smile. "Isn't it clever of me to remember that? Pooh! we learned it all at Miss Pinkerton's!
'Oh, Lord, I ought to have recognised you by that synagogue beginning. 'Me, a Schnorrer! The little man swelled skywards. 'Me, Solomon Barzinsky, whose shop stood in Sudminster twenty years before you poked your nose in 'I beg your pardon. There! you see I'm a beggar, too. And Simeon Samuels laughed mirthlessly. 'Well, you've come to beg of me. And his fingers caressed his patriarchal beard.
I was glad that John was not at home; glad that the coach, with all its fine paraphernalia, was away, empty as it had arrived, before John came in. He did not come till it was nearly dusk. I was at the window, looking at my four poplar-trees, as they pointed skywards like long fingers stretching up out of the gloom, when I saw him crossing the common.
It was a very interesting flight; the weather good; our height about 1,500 feet; the machine a 50 horse-power Gnome "box-kite" Henri Farman, which at one period of our 35 mile an hour return journey elected to point itself skywards for an unpleasant second or two and fly "cabré"; I can see Hubert now anxiously forcing his front elevator downwards and shouting to me to lean forward in order to help to bring the nose to a more comfortable bearing!
Shouting and laughing, men and women ran back to the house, which in one hour they had stripped bare. Just before the dawn a great flame shot skywards, an orange ribbon across the purple robe of dying Night. Requiem "There was an awful row in the Bazaar last night," said Mr. Ephraim Perkins to his spouse facing him across the breakfast table. "They killed a woman and burned her house down."
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