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Aden, when visited by the Portuguese Balthazar less than 300 years ago, was a perfect garden; but it is now a vast conglomeration of black volcanic rocks, with so little vegetation, that, on seeing flocks of goats driven out, I thought of the Irish cabman at an ascent slamming the door of his cab and whispering to his fare, "Whish, it's to desave the baste: he thinks that you are out walking."
Then to pick one's way across the plashy meadows, and, after a ticklish pass of jumping from one reedy tussock to another, to get once more upon the firm soil, while the grass, dry and crisp under your feet, gives a pleasant whish, whish, as it does the duty of street-door-mat to your mud-beclogged sandals. Now for the stone wall.
Then whish, roar, eclipse, darkness and sulphureted hydrogen! we would dive into another tunnel and out again gasping on a breathtaking panorama of mountains.
I rose to try and get them out of the office; but a sober man with tied arms among a drunken crew is at a disadvantage. "Ha old wise sh head! To be sh shure! Whur d' y' hide it?" "Throw it out of the window," said I, without the slightest idea of leading him into mischief. "Whish whish ish the window, Rufush?" asked Louis imploringly.
Thou mayst get me my pipe, Paul, it is upstairs, under the pillow." While Paul was accomplishing this errand, the lady of the Mug, fixing her eyes upon Mr. Dunnaker, said, "Dummie, Dummie, if little Paul should come to be scragged!" "Whish!" muttered Dummie, glancing over his shoulder at MacGrawler; "mayhap that gemman " Here his voice became scarcely audible even to Mrs.
Your skates are steel, and your legs feel the same as stroke, whish! stroke, whish! stroke! stroke! stroke! stroke! away you go, gathering power, velocity, confidence, delight, at the unwonted exercise, till you feel as if you could go on for ever, and begin wishing that the whole world was ice, and human beings had been born with skates to their toes instead of nails.
Mind, I take no denial. If you're not there by the time named, there will be no banquet; no song, no supper, Mr. Whish!" White birds whisked in the air above, a shoal of parti-coloured fishes in the scarce denser medium below; between, like Mahomet's coffin, the boat drew away briskly on the surface, and its shadow followed it over the glittering floor of the lagoon.
Satisfied at last, he climbed back into the plane. A member of the ground crew took his place at the propeller. "Petrol off, sir?" "Petrol off." Whish! Whish! went the prop as the helper began pulling it over against compression. "Contact, sir!" "Contact." The motor caught, coughed, caught again and the prop whirled into an indistinct blur.
Then, smiling more than ever, he stooped, picked up his buckets, went on a few yards to where there was an opening into the next row, turned himself edgewise, and passed through with his buckets swung round, and was about to pass through into another green arcade, but stopped, smiling still, and put down his load once more with a louder rattle of the handles, while clank clank went the engine and whish whish and sputter the cloud of spray among the leaves.
This time he was cursing one of his horses, and she could hear the stinging whish of a whip, a wicked and sinister emphasis to the beast's snorting and frenzied thumping of hoofs. Her blue eyes dilated with fear; she knew in what pain and fright the horse must be lunging under those blows.
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