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"I reckon I'm going. You'll hear from me again. Next time the shoe will pinch the other foot." "It will be the foot that kicks you out of camp in that case," answered the Professor. "Hooray!" howled the fat boy. "Three cheers for Professor Zip-zip!" "Be silent!" thundered Professor Zepplin. "Yes, you had better look out or he will take it out of you after Mr. Darwood has gone," warned Tad.
Pearlie Schultz looked down at the leading lady kindly and benignantly, as a mastiff might look at a terrier. "Lonesome for a bosom to cry on?" asked she, and stepped into the room, walked to the west windows, and jerked down the shades with a zip-zip, shutting off the yellow glare. She came back to where the leading lady was standing and patted her on the cheek, lightly.
It was a stupendous picture, as he stood like a colossus clutching his deadly weapon, and looking over his long brown beard at the skulking and cowardly foe. He stood without a motion without even winking although the leaden hail hurtled past his head, and cut the grass at his feet with that peculiar "zip-zip" so well remembered by the soldier who has passed the ordeal of a battle.
The river was so narrow that every movement on either side was visible, and, lying flat upon the ground, we fired for hours at any signs of life, and were continually answered by the zip-zip of bullets as they flew past our heads, or buried themselves in the rails above us.
"I would go if I thought I could get anything by going. Special information with reference to a Plan of Attack. Oh! if you knew how I'm dying to be really under fire. To hear bullets zip-zip isn't that the sound? as they strike the ground or walls, and shells scream overhead!" She clasped her sunburnt little jewelled hands in affected ecstasy.
Drew saw a shell strike earth not far away, bounce twice, still intact, and roll on toward the Confederate lines. The zip-zip of the Miniés had not yet begun. And this waiting was the hardest part of all. Drew tried to pin all his powers of concentration on a study of the ground immediately before him, the slope up which they would have to win in order to have it out with the now hidden enemy.
As he thus sat and mused, listening to the zip-zip of the vessel as it cut through the water, his mind naturally drifted off to her of the street crossing incident. He wondered what had become of her. Why had she left the railing in such a hurry, and what was the cause of the sudden pallor that had come upon her face?
Into the silence of the wood came the sharp crack of rifles, the zip-zip of bullets, the shouts of men who had given up the game of invisibility. It was a sharp encounter one night when the Loyal North Lancashires held the village of Vaux, and our men brought back many German helmets and other trophies as proofs of victory.
We crawled a hundred yards farther along to a place where the ditch was a little deeper, and we were screened by some bushes, but I think the General's red hat must have been marked down, because for the next hour we lay flat listening to the zip-zip of bullets that passed barely overhead. Just before we moved the Germans started to shell Missy with heavy howitzers.
As Alleyne stooped to raise him, the air seemed to be alive with the sharp zip-zip of the bolts, and he could hear them pattering on the deck like apples at a tree-shaking. "Raise two more mantlets by the poop-lanthorn," said Sir Nigel quietly. "And another man to the tiller," cried the master-shipman. "Keep them in play, Aylward, with ten of your men," the knight continued.
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