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With a roar of Boeotian hilarity, it tore up the hillside as if it were a storming party, and half a day the sacred woods were vocal with silly catcalls and snatches of profane song.
Overwhelmed with horror the girls pressed on, and at Eva's terrified exclamation, "Let us, O let us go!" the man did his best. But they made slow progress through the crowd, whose yells, hisses, and catcalls pursued them to the entrance of the neighbouring Town Hall.
As the whistle sounded for the end of the period, boos and catcalls from the grandstand filled the air. Tom's face was an angry red as he faced Roger again on the side lines during the rest period. "You hear that, Roger?" he growled, nodding his head toward the stands. "That's what they think of your smart playing!" "What do I care?" replied the blond cadet arrogantly.
His eyes began to glisten, his voice gained in volume and steadiness. He gradually made himself heard more continuously, until the hissing and catcalls became less frequent, and finally ceased. After a struggle of fifteen minutes, he finished strong. Like some ill-favoured terrier, he had persisted in spite of odds, and had worried his great antagonist into wondering submission.
It came unhesitatingly clear and in a voice of high enthusiasm. "Isn't it the most wonderful poem he ever wrote?" The gallery broke into screams, catcalls, hisses and protests against Joan's shameless recantation.
If I could only see something!" Cutty put his hands upon the shoulders of this chance acquaintance and propelled him toward the curb. There were cries of protest, curses, catcalls, but Cutty bored on ahead until he got his man where he could see the tin hats, the bayonets, and the colours; and thus they stood for a full hour.
Of course Warwick is run by a clique it always has been and I 'd like to see them turned out for once." Leigh was no longer astonished at the sudden swinging of the pendulum. "They did n't swallow it," he said grimly, "and it took Emmet's personal appeal for fair play to make them stop their hissing and catcalls.
"Let's keep out of that, fellows," advised Dick, to his chums, who grouped themselves about him. "Groans and catcalls won't smooth or soothe any hard-feelings." "I don't blame any of the fellows for what they're doing to the snobs," blazed Dan Dalzell indignantly. "I don't say that I do, either," Dick replied quietly.
The two drinks made him very merry almost idiotically so, and he began to take a most lively and prominent part in the proceedings, particularly in the music and catcalls and side remarks. The chairman was still standing at the front, the twins at his side.
It wounded his dignity, and he locked himself up in silence. Then, although the crowd begged him to go on, and tried to provoke him to it by catcalls, jeers, and shouts of: "Let him speak! The king! The king! his humble subjects hunger and thirst for words of wisdom out of the mouth of their master his Serene and Sacred Raggedness!" But it went for nothing.
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