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Updated: June 23, 2025
A watcher, had there been one, might have seen, just as the last rays of the setting sun touched the steely reaches of the estuary, turning them to lakes of crimson, something, somebody or bodies, truly, for they were locked together suddenly appear, streaking down headlong from out the heavens.
The landing-grid operator was holding it aloft, but Calhoun could move it in evasive action if he wished. He approved the liberty given him. He could use his emergency rockets to dodge. A second thread of smoke came streaking upward. Then other threads of white began just outside the landing grid. They rushed after the first. The original rockets seemed to dodge. Others came up.
The good mother was rather deaf, and not jealous, like her husband, of the honor of conversing with the Count. The happy party pressed me to remain with them longer this evening. I dared not I had not a moment to lose. I saw the rising moon streaking the horizon my hour was come. Next evening I went again to the forester's garden.
"You don't see, it may be," said Barbican, "but you can see, if you only reflect a moment. Have you not often seen the November meteors, for instance, streaking the skies, thousands at a time?" "Yes; on several occasions I was so fortunate." "Well, did you ever see any of them strike the Earth's surface?" asked Barbican. "I can't say I ever did," was the candid reply, "but "
He could see them sweeping in from the telescoping segments of the herds as the word went among them; he could see them streaking out of the foothills; and then, like wolves scattering for freer air and leg-room, he saw them dotting the tundra in their race for home and war, if it was war that lay ahead of them.
In the far corner of the room were two bronchos, one of which tried in vain to kick Mr. Cassidy, not realizing that he was ten feet away. The noise awakened the sleepers, who sat up and then sprang to their feet, their hands instinctively streaking to their thighs for the weapons which peeked contentedly from the bosom of Mr. Cassidy's open shirt.
Zackey, with the red earth of the mine still streaking his manly countenance, was rolled-up like a ball in his own bed in a dark recess of the room, and little Grace Maggot could be seen in the dim perspective of a closet, also sound asleep, in her own neat little bed, with her hair streaming over the pillow, and the "chet" reposing happily on her neck.
They were those of a man living in a world of dreams, for whom the outer world was as remote, and the inner world as pure, as the silver of the shining clouds that were streaking the peaks of Hecla. His face was my last memento of the mystery of the Outer Isles. The rest of our journeyings lay among scenes better known to tourists.
It's your birthday will be a planetary holiday long after we're married and our grandchildren think I'm as big a nuisance as your grandfather Sean O'Donohue! It's a fine grand marriage we'll be havin' " He kissed her again and whirled the boat about and sent it streaking for the mainland. From time to time he whooped. Rather more frequently, he hugged Moira exuberantly.
Don't think that I am going to sit here like a baby when Don is off streaking across the ice or doing the 'outer edge," retorted Dot, taking her skates from the bag and unbuckling the heel straps. Two sledges had finished unloading and the drivers called out to Mike. "Comin' back this trip?" "Nah! we're going to have a skate on the ice," shouted Paul, waving the men back to the forest.
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