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Updated: May 19, 2025
But the lift continued to bring up the blue armor-piercing shells; five times more and then it stopped. During a momentary pause in the firing on both sides, the buzzing and whirring of the electric apparatus of the lift could be distinctly heard. Then the lift appeared once more, this time with a red explosive shell. "Aim at the forepart of the Satsuma, 1950 yards!"
Well, after I had been through rooms and rooms of whirring machinery infinitely ingenious and diversified that made my head ache they took me to a shed where stood in a sort of giant peace the great engine that moved it all. 'God! was my instant thought, and somehow my headache fled.
Perhaps you were not the only person in this house who went out to-night with a latchkey. Now do you guess?" "No, I don't," the girl had to answer, though a dreadful idea was whirring an alarm in her brain.
Then he opened the big door and I was surprised to observe that it led into the outer air. What gulf of darkness are we about to plunge into? I asked myself, peering through the doorway; and as we stepped out I heard again that ominous whirring. Close upon his heels I followed in a narrow path, through what seemed to be a large courtyard, overgrown with thick grass.
Soon he could distinguish small dots like ants moving in and out about the black spot, and he knew these dots must be men. A whining, whirring sound came along the rails to him from behind. He faced about just as a handcar shot out around the curve from the north, moving with amazing rapidity under the strokes of four men at the pumps.
He rose; she sprang lightly to her feet; there came a whirring flutter, a twittering shower of sweet notes, soft wings beating almost in their very faces, a distant shadow against the sky, and the woodcock was gone. Quieting the astounded dog, gun cradled in the hollow of his left arm, he turned to the girl beside him: "That sort of thing wins no cups," he said. "It wins something else, Mr.
What do you mean? Mr Deasy asked. He came forward a pace and stood by the table. His underjaw fell sideways open uncertainly. Is this old wisdom? He waits to hear from me. History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. From the playfield the boys raised a shout. A whirring whistle: goal. What if that nightmare gave you a back kick?
and as Ned stood dazed by the enchantment of his environment, he was brought to earth with a jar by the whirring of rattles almost under his feet. Every muscle of the boy was tense with excitement as he stood motionless, knowing that death, in a horrible form, was within striking distance of him.
She felt the trunk lifted over the men's heads, and the whirring of an automobile told her that she was being placed in the machine. "Well, you didn't care much for your pet room this time, Mr. Wrentz," smiled the clerk as Wrentz asked for his bill. "Indeed I did, but a message has called me back to New York."
The result was the same: the distance between them seemed to increase instead of diminishing; and he smiled ironically to think of the form his appeal had taken "If you see anything that seems to need explaining." Why, she saw nothing nothing but the greasy floor under her feet, the cotton-dust in her eyes, the dizzy incomprehensible whirring of innumerable belts and wheels!
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