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My bones be stiff, and my blood's nothin' but water, and my eyes ain't seein' nothin'." "Don't they see things in the dark," asked the girl, superstitiously, "ghosts and things?" "Aye, Flea; and the things I see now I'll tell ye if they be good or bad mind ye, good or bad!" "Good or bad," repeated Flea. At length, after a silence, the girl broke forth. "Air Flukey in yer eyes, Screechy?"
Sorrowfully let us hear Wilhelmina yet a little, on this Lais Duchess, who will concern us somewhat. These Princes had been with us on their road thither, just before their Mamma last time. Her features are beautiful, but her complexion is faded and very yellow. Her voice is so high and screechy, it cuts your ears; she does not want for wit, and expresses herself well.
Just before he gets to the tree trunk which is his objective point, he makes momentum aid his muscles in the accomplishment of an upward curve. Crickets and katydids droned and fiddled all night, and when the katydids quit at daybreak, other grasshoppers and cicadas were ready to take their places in the screechy orchestra. Night and day they shrill their ceaseless music.
"He used to walk over there of a Sunday afternoon to visit his old acquaintance Andrew Brown, the first clarinet there; a good man enough, but rather screechy in his music, if you can mind?" "'A was." "And neighbour Yeobright would take Andrey's place for some part of the service, to let Andrey have a bit of a nap, as any friend would naturally do."
Bill won, and I lost. Then he said, in his screechy voice, "By golly! you see I've got two cards to your one, and can win every time." The big fellow was getting terribly worked up, for he knew that the corner of the baby card was turned up. Then he commenced getting out his money, and I was soon by his side. "Can you guess it?" I innocently asked. "If you can, tell me, so I can get even."
"Do as you are bid, bad Hanne!" cried I, being, like all solitary children, quickly made angry, "or I will tell my father to drive you before him when next he goes forth clad in red to the Hall of Justice." At which the poor old woman gave vent to a sharp, screechy cry and caught at her skinny throat with twitching, bony fingers. "Oh, but you know not what you say, cruel boy!" she gasped.
France, too, was slow to habituate herself to parliamentary institutions, and her history in the years 1887 to 1893 is largely that of a succession of political scandals and screechy recriminations, from the time of the Grévy-Wilson affair to the loathsome end of the Panama Company.
Then he turned to face the assailants. The scene on the roof had attracted a large number of spectators, who had gathered below and were exchanging surmises and advice on the merits of a case about which none of them really knew anything. Now a woman's voice rose from amid this gaping and chattering crowd, the sharp and screechy voice of an angry woman. She shouted to those who were on the roof,
When I went in and made my salutation, one man wheeled round square before me, stared straight into my oyes, and in an exceedingly high-pitched reedy or screechy voice and a sing-song tone returned my "good morning," and bade me call for the liquid I loved best at his expense. I declined with thanks, and in accordance with gaucho etiquette added that I was prepared to pay for his liquor.
It swaggered, scowling, back and forth on its short legs just as it had seen her do on her long ones, and now and then snarling viciously, exposing its teeth, with a threatening lift of its upper lip and bristling moustache; and when it thought it was impressing the visitors, it would spread its mouth wide and do that screechy cry which it meant for a roar, but which did not deceive.
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