United States or Bouvet Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Again the hail came across the tumbling waters, but no reply was made. A shot rang out from the schooner. The boys could see the bullet ricochet from wave to wave and pass in front of the Fortuna. Another shot was fired. Glass tinkled. Jack fell to the floor. "Oh, Jack!" cried Tom, stooping over the boy lying prone upon the pilot house floor. "Oh, Jack, speak to me!"
"He backed away growling, but I caught him round the neck, roughed what little wind he had out of him, and left him doubled up with the two fives in his pocket. But hardly had the elevator started, when the two coins tinkled on the roof and fell down between the car and the shaft. As luck had it, the door was not closed, and I put out my hand and caught them. The elevator boy's eyes bulged.
One anxious scribe felt very dull that day; a sheep-bell tinkled near by, and called her wandering wits after it. The sentences failed to catch these lovely summer cadences. For the first time I began to wish for a companion and for news from the outer world, which had been, half unconsciously, forgotten. Watching the funeral gave one a sort of pain.
"But this is too serious." He tinkled the little silver bell. "Find out if Miss Avice will be down to breakfast." "Yes, sir." "If she's not coming down I shall go up," declared Mr. Milbrey when the man had gone. "She's stubborn," cautioned his wife. "Gad! don't I know it?" Jarvis returned. "Miss Avice won't be down, sir, and I'm to fetch her up a pot of coffee, sir."
Never mind her or him either. I will take care of the two of them!" A low laugh tinkled from the ancestress: "Ha, ha! you thought the fool would be scandalized, and instead he is only the more enamored." The girl flinched but kept her face to the window: "He is not the fool." "No? We can hardly tell, when we are in love."
Out they stepped, and then what do you suppose happened? If the wonderful palace had grown like a bubble, like a bubble it vanished. There the two stood on the sea-shore, with nothing to be seen but rocks and sand and water, and the starry sky overhead. The fisherman shook his cap of gold, and it jingled and tinkled, and was as heavy as lead. If it was not all a dream, he was rich for life.
As he scribbled, the telephone of the room tinkled its summons. He started toward it: then his invaluable intuition prompted him to walk into the adjoining room, where another instrument stood on a small table, handy to the bed. Only two people could possibly know he was there. Van Cleft could not have arrived, as yet.
The bell of the family cow tinkled somewhere over near the water of the little stream. He saw the great dipper in the sky, Sirius, Canopus, the vast galaxy of the Milky Way. "What is life anyway?" he asked himself. "What is the human body? What produces passion? Here we are for a few years surging with a fever of longing and then we burn out and die."
Then he saw them go in at the door; and when Robin would have entered also, the latch tinkled into its place, and he was excluded from his home. "Am I here, or there?" cried Robin, starting; for all at once, when his thoughts had become visible and audible in a dream, the long, wide, solitary street shone out before him.
Set out the speerits just to shelebrate the joyful occeesion, ye know ay, ay, just to shelebrate the joyful occeesion!" Janet brought a tray, with glasses, from the pantry. As she walked, the rims of the glasses shivered and tinkled against each other, from her trembling. Then she set a bottle on the table. Gourlay sent it crashing to the floor. "A bottle!" he roared. "A bottle for huz twa!
Word Of The Day