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Updated: June 2, 2025
They scuttled inside the walls, and squeaked behind the wainscots, and seemed to hold carnival at the back of the oak panelling, often disturbing the girls at night with the noise. This was particularly noticeable in the room where Lindsay and Cicely slept. They were sometimes awakened by sounds like the rolling of barrels overhead, as if heavy objects were being clanked about up in the ceiling.
The lanterns hanging in front of the Chinese cellars were extinguished one by one, and everyone apparently turned in. The fog became thicker and thicker, and covered the pavement with moisture. Suddenly the door of Hung Wapu's cellar squeaked; it was opened cautiously and a low clatter came up from below.
"When you meet this Umslopogaas, as you will meet him, he who is called the Woodpecker and the Slaughterer, say these words to him, "'A bat has been twittering round the hut of the Opener-of-Roads, and to his ears it squeaked the name of a certain Lousta and the name of a woman called Monazi.
"How do you do?" "Pretty well, mother. How do you do, father?" "Glad to see you," replied Captain Somers, as he seized his son's hand. "Bless my soul, Tom!" squeaked gran'ther Greene, shaking in every fibre of his frame from the combined influence of rhapsody and rheumatism.
Carbines thumped, bridles jingled, leather squeaked, the horses' hoofs clattered on the sandstone ledges. They emerged from the last of the reddish defiles and proceeded to climb up, up, up into the pines. The going was steep, and the horses puffed and groaned. Gazing back, they might see the Sioux a mile behind, and below, bunched in council, and looking and gesturing.
A key squeaked in its little-used lock, and the representatives of the law stared at each other for one dazed, dragging moment. Suddenly Harkness flung his muscular form against the door again and again until it broke from its hinges.
Mary, said Mr Pecksniff in his tenderest tones, indeed they were so very tender that he almost squeaked: 'My soul! I love you! A fantastic thing, that maiden affectation! She made believe to shudder. 'I love you, said Mr Pecksniff, 'my gentle life, with a devotion which is quite surprising, even to myself.
All dressed up, and your hair quite smooth, and brushed up at the sides, and oh, so shiny! What do they put on it to make it shine like that? Don't you hate having your hair brushed?" she ran on, without waiting for an answer. "How your boots squeaked when you came down the aisle! When mine squeak, I walk in all the puddles till they stop. Think I'll get over the fence."
Hurrying back to camp, I loaded a cartridge lightly with a pinch of dust shot, spread some crumbs near the big log behind my tent, squeaked the call a few times, and sat down to wait. "These mice are strangers to me," I told Conscience, who was protesting a little, "and the woods are full of them, and I want that trout." In a moment there was a rustle in the mossy doorway and Tookhees appeared.
Also, a window sash squeaked, and the courtyard resounded with sudden bustle the culinary regions vomiting the elderly lady and the tousled, half-clad Jonah; and an open window the upper half of the red-headed Peter. "Men, harness up as quickly as possible!" the latter cried, his voice charged with a plaintive note.
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