Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 7, 2025
In the wonder of it he stood silent, and the moment was weighted with an appalling silence. It came to them both in that instant the tick-tick-tick of the watch in his pocket! Without taking her eyes from his face she asked: "What time is it. John?" "Joanne " "I am not afraid," she whispered. "I was afraid this afternoon, but I am not afraid now. What time is it, John?"
The sparks flew up some twenty paces in front of us, and even after the fight we could not tell whether they came from our own guns or from those of the enemy. At intervals we heard the tick-tick-tick of a small Maxim, but owing to the dark we were not mown down.
She put on her coat and hat, standing near the fireplace to catch the last waves of heat, with her foot upon the fender and her eyes fixed upon the purplish glow, so rapidly fading to mauve and to grey. She was tense with expectancy. She had no consciousness of anything but her strained hearing. Tick-tick-tick.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking