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They lurked for me in the forest glades; leaped up, striking, under my feet; squirmed off through the dry grass or across naked patches of rock; or pursued me into the tree-tops, encircling the trunks with their great shining bodies, driving me higher and higher or farther and farther out on swaying and crackling branches, the ground a dizzy distance beneath me.
Ettinger's proposition was no fanciful dream; it was hard, unvarnished fact. And, as so often happens when a man sees a radiant possibility, he wondered that he had not seen it for himself long ago. Here was the golden opportunity his soul, in a mist, had yearned for! He shot out his hand gripping Ruf Ettinger's until the little man squirmed.
Against that which did not conform, against all that squirmed for some expression beyond the tick-tock of life, he was a force an apostle with a sword. Men pretending virtues as relentless as his own were often inclined to eye him askance. Virtue breeds skepticism among the virtuous. But there was a difference about Hazlitt. The basis of his philosophy was twofold.
They clambered, squirmed and wriggled to the deck, forcing us steadily backward, though we emptied our pistols into them. There were all sorts and conditions of horrible things huge, hideous, grotesque, monstrous a veritable Mesozoic nightmare.
The tag end of grey fur stirred itself; there was a little growl, a little bark, and a little grey dog squirmed out of his nest and went waddling away across the rug. "Mercy on us! What's that?" Theodora gasped, as the little creature shook himself with a vehemence which fairly hoisted him off his hind legs, then flew at the nearest claw of the tiger skin and fell to worrying it. "That?"
Every second the pursuing footsteps were coming closer. Stubbs squirmed about uneasily. "Say," he said at last; "hear those fellows coming? I'm going to get away from here." Again he took to his heels; and there was nothing for Hal to do but follow, for he did not wish to lose sight of the little man.
Crewe, glancing about him; "not one of your prominent citizens in Ripton would venture to offend the powers that be by consenting to introduce me to-night, or dared come into this theatre and take seats within thirty feet of this platform." Here Mr. Crewe let his eyes rest significantly on the eleven empty rows, while his hearers squirmed in terrified silence at this audacity.
Again the ghost's hand moved slowly toward its mouth, and again the light tap upon his chest and two bullets lay upon the ground at his feet. His head felt strange and large, and inside his skull things were moving long, gray maggots that twisted, and writhed, and squirmed, like fishing worms in a can. He laughed flatly, a senile, cackling laugh.
"Peace, why did you take him without saying a word?" she reproached, sinking into the nearest chair, and hugging her small son close to her breast. "I didn't " Peace began. "I think he must have run away," volunteered the Lilac Lady, staring fixedly at Elizabeth's face with almost frightened eyes. "He squirmed through the hedge while I was alone in the garden.
"It's Max Veltman," said Hal, catching sight of a wild, strained face. "What is he up to?" The former "Clarion" man squirmed through the front rank and crawled slowly under the ropes. Above the murmur of confused tones, a voice of terror shrilled out: "He's got a bomb." The mass surged back from the spot.
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