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The basket leaped aloft, as the winch that had been jammed by a trivial accident to the control took hold of the steel cable. Up it soared, still pursued by dwindling screams of rage, by now futile rifle-fire. Before it had reached the trap in the lower gallery, the main propellers had begun to whicker into swift revolution, all gleaming in the afternoon sun.
Often the recesses of the pines have been full of a gentle tinkling whicker as of muted tin pans that practised in the hope of some day becoming real phonographs, voices of young and old bluejays holding family councils interspersed with quiet joviality, but there has been none of the strident clamor which is the autumn voice of the bird.
"Wa'al," said David with a grin, "I ben a little down in the mouth lately 'bout Polly seems to be fallin' away some don't weigh much more 'n I do, I guess;" but Miss Clara only laughed at this gloomy report. "How is my horse Kirby?" she asked. "Wa'al, the ole bag-o'-bones is breathin' yet," said David, chuckling, "but he's putty well wore out has to lean up agin the shed to whicker.
The child sat still for a little time and Miss Allardyce closed her eyes; the pain was nearly making her faint. She was roused by Wee Willie Winkie tying up the reins on his pony's neck and setting it free with a vicious cut of his whip that made it whicker. The little animal headed towards the cantonments. 'Oh, Winkie, what are you doing? 'Hush! said Wee Willie Winkie.
Shelley and Leon were quieter now. May nudged me, and I saw that his arm around her was gripping her tight, while her hand on his head was patting him and fingering his hair. Ca-lumph! Ca-lumph! came the funniest sound right on the stone walk leading to the east door, then a shrill whicker that made father drop his pencil.
"There's where you fool yerself," replied Sam, "an' there's where many a hunter is fooled. That last one's the call of a Screech Owl. You see it's softer and whistlier than the Coon whicker." They heard it again and again from the trees. It was a sweet musical sound, and Yan remembered how squally the Coon call was in comparison, and yet many hunters never learn the difference.
Coyotes began to yelp in the mysterious sea around him. Chicken felt lonesome. He had lived in Boston without an education, in Chicago without nerve, in Philadelphia without a sleeping place, in New York without a pull, and in Pittsburg sober, and yet he had never felt so lonely as now. Suddenly through the intense silence, he heard the whicker of a horse.
He tossed a valise into the rack, and I gave up the corner seat so that he might sit facing Grim, he acknowledging the courtesy with a smile like the whicker of a sword-blade, wasting no time on foolish protest. He knew what he wanted knew enough to take it when invited understood me, and expected me to understand him a first-class fellow.
When he awakens in the middle of a long winter night he may send his mind out to the snowy fields I've done it a thousand times! and visit each part in turn, stroll through the orchard and pay his respects to each tree in a small orchard one comes to know familiarly every tree as he knows his friends stop at the strawberry bed, consider the grape trellises, feel himself opening the door of the warm, dark stable and listening to the welcoming whicker of his horses, or visiting his cows, his pigs, his sheep, his hens, or so many of them as he may have.
It was a devils' anthem, glorifying hellishness suggestive of the gnashing of a million teeth, and the whicker of drawn blades more shuddersome and mean than the wind of a winter's night. And it ceased as suddenly as it had begun. Another ruffian fired at the roof, and while the crack of the shot yet echoed seven other of the arena guards stepped forward with long horns and blew a blast.
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