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The crackers went off in a thunderclap of noise and the pinwheels bursting out of the door spun madly around the room, hissing and spluttering. Anne dropped into her chair white with dismay and all the girls climbed shrieking upon their desks. Joe Sloane stood as one transfixed in the midst of the commotion and St. Clair, helpless with laughter, rocked to and fro in the aisle.
Who are you?" "I," said Roger, "am Mr. Hamlin, supercargo of this ship." "But where what in heaven's name has taken place? Where's Captain Whidden?" "Captain Whidden," said Roger, "is dead." "But when but what " "Who are you?" Roger fired the words at him like a thunderclap. "I I I am Mr. Johnston, agent for Thomas Webster and Sons," the man stammered.
"Yes, sir, and I trust you will be satisfied with what I have done." "Did you see the man?" "No, sir. Your instructions were to avoid all contact with him. I know, however, where to lay my hands on him." "You have done well. I wish my presence here to be like a thunderclap to him. And then I expect that in his terror he will make the avowal which will be my salvation."
In the middle of this, Flucker Johnstone came hastily in from the Old Town and told them he had seen the wife, Beeny Liston, coming through from Granton. The sympathy of all was instantly turned in this direction. "She would hear the news." "It would fall on her like a thunderclap." "What would become of her?"
It shakes me at once with laughter and recollected terror when I recall it. "WELL, HELLO YOU!" he called out in a voice of such stentorian power that we jumped as at a thunderclap. The effect on the strange brute was electric.
The story is, that the firm of Hobson Brothers and Newcome, yesterday refused acceptance of thirty thousand pounds' worth of bills of the Bundelcund Banking Company of India. "The news came like a thunderclap upon the London Board of Directors, who had received no notice of the intentions of Hobson Brothers, and caused a dreadful panic amongst the shareholders of the concern.
The brigands, one and all, leaped to their feet, snatching up their carbines, while from their throats issued a deep cry of revenge. Dead! The word thrilled them one and all with horror. The bold Mathias dead! Prepared as they had been by her manner for some dire Calamity, it came upon them like a thunderclap.
Although the impudence of this attack, this public proclamation of intimacy, as it were, was doubtless premeditated, and had its special object, yet Evgenie Pavlovitch at first seemed to intend to make no show of observing either his tormentor or her words. But Nastasia's communication struck him with the force of a thunderclap.
So long as so many jobs are an endless and, for the worker, an aimless routine, a kind of automatism using one set of muscles in one monotonous pattern, his whole life will tend towards an automatism in which nothing is particularly to be distinguished from anything else unless it is announced with a thunderclap.
Pray, Miss Violet, allow me to inquire how long you have been posing for this interesting tableau?" This question, in the gruff, sarcastic tones of Wilhelm Mencke, burst upon the lovers like an unexpected thunderclap, and, starting to her feet, Violet turned to find her sister's husband standing not six feet from her. Mrs.
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