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"The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came!" Then, with appropriate ceremonies, they offered up the mouse to the Jabberwock, and then, joining hands, they danced around it, howling and shrieking. "More! more!" growled Cricket, in awful tones, that were supposed to come from the yawning throat of the Jabberwock.
Lothrop Wilson, mild by nature, and rather prone to whiffling in times of difficulty, frowned, with conscious effort; but that was only because he knew, in his own soul, how loyally he loved the under-dog, let justice go as it might. Then there was Eli Pike, occupying himself in pulling a rein from beneath the horse's tail.
A word to his orderly conveyed across the parade ground, roused the sleepy bugler of the guard, and the air was filled with the "Assembly." Sixty men of the Houssas paraded in anticipation of a sudden call northwards. "My children," said Hamilton, whiffling his pliant cane, "soon there will come here a member of government who knows nothing.
p. 278 shatterhead. The Countess of Winchilsea, Miscellany Poems , 'Pri'thee shatter-headed Fop'. p. 278 Craffey. Craffy is the foolish son of the Podesta in Crowne's City Politicks . He is described as 'an impudent, amorous, pragmatical fop, that pretends to wit and poetry. He is engaged in writing Husbai an answer to Absalom and Achitophel. p. 278 whiffling. Fickle; unsteady; uncertain.
By Heaven, but that I find in me a reluctance to practise their acts of nocturnal rapine, I would rather take the jack and lance, and join with the Border-riders. Something I will do. Here, degraded and dishonoured, I will not live the scorn of each whiffling stranger from the South, because, forsooth, he wears tinkling spurs on a tawney boot.
"What always astonishes me about young people is the way they think they're not seen poor dears!" Still there was silence. "John! Are you thinking?" For a considerable sound of breathing, not mere whiffling now, was coming from the Colonel to his wife a sure sign. And indeed he WAS thinking.
Some pigeons, white, and blue-grey, with a lovely mingling and interplay of metallic lustres on their feathery throats, but with none of that almost grotesque obtrusion of over-driven individuality of kind, in which the graciousness of common beauty is now sacrificed to the whim of the fashion the vulgar fancier initiates, picked up the crumbs under the windows of lady Margaret's nursery, or flew hither and thither among the roofs with wapping and whiffling wing.
It was the whiffling energy of the tornado that alone saved her. As if disappointed in not destroying its intended victim at one swoop, the tornado "let up" in its pressure, like a dexterous wrestler, making a fresh and desperate effort to overturn the vessel, by a slight variation in its course. That change saved the Swash.
And we, too, some day would no longer love, having become part of this monstrous, lovely earth, of that cold, whiffling air. To be no longer able to love! It seemed incredible, too grim to bear; yet it was true! To become powder, and the wind; no more to feel the sunlight; to be loved no more! To become a whiffling noise, cold, without one's self! To drift on the breath of that noise, homeless!
Formed out on the heart of the Atlantic, they sailed forward, swift and fleecy at first, like the skirmishing white shallops of a great fleet; then, in serried masses, darkened the sun. About four o'clock they broke in rain, which the wind drove horizontally with a cold whiffling murmur. As youth and glamour die in a face before the cold rains of life, so glory died on the moor.
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