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Updated: August 7, 2024
Suddenly he began to croon a long-forgotten sailor's chanty. Perhaps, in some dim way, a notion of his true predicament had dawned on him, for there was a sinister purport to the verse.
The voice of the reader was heard in the chamber of death. "The minister's come, Thamas." "Come or gang," said Thomas, "it's muckle the same. The word itsel' oot o' his mou' fa's as deid as chaff upo' clay. Honest Jeames there'll rise ance mair; but never a word that man says, wi' the croon o' 's heid i' the how o' 's neck, 'll rise to beir witness o' his ministrations." "Hoot, Thamas!
I heard the cushie croon Thro' the gowden afternoon, And the Quair burn singing doon to the vale o' Tweed." There is in the country of Scott no pleasanter walk than that which Dr. Brown took in the summer afternoon.
Or at night he would croon from Moore: "When the drowsy world is dreaming, love, Then awake the heavens look bright, my dear, 'Tis never too late for delight, my dear, And the best of all ways To lengthen our days Is to steal a few hours from the night, my dear!" When storms would come she would cower down in the bottom of the cart and cry and pray. Storms terrified her.
And at that thought she drew herself into herself, and trying to harden her heart again, went to bed, but not to sleep; and bitterly she cried as she thought over the old hag's croon: "Quick joy, long pain, You will take your gift again." It might have been five o'clock the next morning when the clarion rang down the street.
At first he thought that it was a 'cello or the lower notes of a violin, but presently he became aware that it was a woman singing in a half-voice without thought of what she sang as women croon to a child, or over their work, or when they are idle and their thoughts are far wandering.
But, strange to say or not, as thou wilt have 't, he did seem to love Keren more than he did th' mother that bore him, a-crying for her did she but so much as turn her back, and not sleeping unless that she would croon his lullabies to him.
Their first meeting, it is said, were at the chambers of Mr. Wallis, Dr. Goddard, and Dr. Croon, Henry Shingsby, Esq., and many others.
A quiet, darkened stable conduces rumination. Loud talking, shouting, or laughing are not looked upon with favor in our cow barn. On the other hand, continuous sounds, if at all melodious, seem to soothe the animals and increase the milk flow. Judson, who has proved to be our best herdsman, has a low croon in his mouth all the time.
He knew only that the puppy-dog, given him only the previous morning, was safe back in his arms. While the boat's crew bent to the oars, he steered with the sweep between his arm and his side in order that he might hold Jerry with the other arm. "You little son of a gun," he crooned, and continued to croon, over and over. "You little son of a gun."
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