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We could see again how the broad stream, flowing down, squeezed and squashed like mud, had taken all fantastic shapes, now like gnarled tree roots; now like serpents in a coil; here the human form, or a part of it, a torso or a limb, in agony; now in other nameless convolutions and contortions, as if heaved up and twisted in fiery pain and suffering, for there was almost a human feeling in it; and again not unlike stone billows.
When his lordship and Jack mounted their hacks in the morning to go to the cross-roads at Dallington Burn, it was so dark that they could not see whether they were on bays or browns. It was a dull, murky day, with heavy spongy clouds overhead. There had been a great deal of rain in the night, and the horses poached and squashed as they went.
He noted the murderous twitching of its short, flat finger-tips, the monstrous muscles of its hideous thumb, and the great, clumsy hollows of its clammy palm. It closed in upon him; its cold, slimy, detestable skin touched his coat his shoulder his neck his head! It pressed him down, squashed, suffocated him! He saw it all in the glass and then an extraordinary thing happened. Mr.
Being no great marksmen, their shots are not often effective; but every now and then, a great shout from the besieging army of bumpkins makes known the downfall of some unlucky squab rook, which comes to the ground with the emphasis of a squashed apple-dumpling. Nor is the rookery entirely free from other troubles and disasters.
Several men in the stalls, sitting on the nape of their necks, had covered their faces with pocket-handkerchiefs, which I thought infinitely ridiculous, bursting as they were with beef and beer. My musical left was only a little less good-looking than the white officer. He kept a rigid profile towards me and squashed up into a corner to avoid sharing an arm of the stall with me.
The water was running into the cistern with a soothing, peaceful sound. Shosshi consented to go and see Mr. Belcovitch. Mr. Belcovitch made no parade. Everything was as usual. On the wooden table were two halves of squeezed lemons, a piece of chalk, two cracked cups and some squashed soap. He was not overwhelmed by Shosshi, but admitted he was solid.
"You've just got to win," said Giddings, who was admitted to the secret of Cornish's embassy, "not only because Lattimore and all the citizens thereof will be squashed in the event of your slipping up; but, what is of much more importance, the Herald will be laid in a lie about your Wall Street pull. Remember that when foes surround thee!"
When the wolf in sheep's clothing heard the bellow of the ass in the lion's skin, fancying that the monarch of the forest was near, he ran away as fast as his disguise would let him. When the ox heard the noise he dashed round the meadow-ditch, and with one trample of his hoof squashed the frog who had been abusing him.
"No, it's no good talking to Mum," said Erebus presently in a despairing tone. "Well, we must leave her out of it and just squash the Cruncher ourselves," said the Terror. "But you can't squash the Cruncher!" cried Erebus. "Why not? We've squashed other people, haven't we?" said the Terror sharply. "Never any one so thick-skinned as him," said Erebus.
I make six false starts, bite all my best finger-nails, screw my hair into a wilderness of cork-screws and give it up. No doubt a real Lady Writer could write on, unruffled and unhearing, while the iceman squashed the cucumbers, and the roast burned to a frazzle, and the Spalpeens perished of hunger.
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