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He heard the snarls and growls of bestial combat, and it was with a feeling of no little horror that he realized that the sounds coming from the human throat of the battling man could scarce be distinguished from those of the panther. The first momentary shock of terror over, the girl released her grasp upon the Englishman's arm. "Cannot we do something?" she asked.
Michael was still howling when the short club smote him. The shock and hurt of it made him break off and yelp an involuntary cry of pain. "Knock his block off, dearest," Mrs. Davis counselled. And then ensued battle royal. Davis struck shrewd blows that could be heard, as were heard the snarls and growls of Michael. The audience, under the sway of the comic, ignored Dick and Daisy Bell.
The immense man, brandishing his recovered certificates, plunged forward to encounter them, shouting in Arabic, hustled them back, kicked them, struck at the camels with a stick till those in front receded upon those behind and the street was blocked by struggling beasts and resounded with roaring snarls, the thud of wooden bales clashing together, and the desperate protests of the camel-drivers, one of whom was sent rolling into a noisome dust heap with his turban torn from his head.
And then the thread kinked horribly, and got all twisted up in disagreeable little snarls that took all Polly's patience to unravel. "It's because you're in such a hurry," said Mrs. Pepper, who was getting Phronsie's clothes. And coming over across the room she got down on one knee, and looked over Polly's shoulder. "There now, let mother see what's the matter."
How strangely we lose our premise! If this could not be reasoned out so clearly, I should get all tangled up; as it is, I don't keep out of snarls." "Just think of poor me who seem to have no reasoning faculty at all in these matters. What should I have done without you to help me out?" queried Kate.
The discharge had killed four or five of the wolves, but, undismayed, the remainder assailed him the more furiously. The most active of them could easily spring as far up as his feet! Never was terror more strongly depicted in the human face than it was displayed in Joe's when he saw the whole pack rushing towards him! They sprang up with fearful snarls and yells.
He wants to make all the friends he can against a rainy day his rainy day. He's thinking of being king; but he won't be. I do know that." Frank gave him an angry look, and turned away; but his companion caught his arm. "Don't go, Frank; that was only one of my snarls. I'm not so generous and ready to believe in people as you are."
Then came a shouting and an insane snarling within the passage; the bolts were not withdrawn. 'It is the gentleman, it is the strange gentleman, called the girl. Then came again the furious shouting snarls, and the landlord's mad voice: 'Stop out, stop out there. The door won't be opened again. 'The strange gentleman is here, repeated the girl.
Thousands of strings of cash were laid bare by this action, and with the quickness of lightning hundreds of furious hands tore and snatched, while hot voices smote the air in snarls and gasps. They wanted this money would lose their lives for it. In an instant the pawn-shop hall had been turned into a sulphurous saturnalia horrid to witness. That gave you a grim idea of mob violence.
"An' if you watch close you can see the coyotes. They're gray an' they move.... Can't you hear them?" Helen's excited ears, so full of throbs and imaginings, presently registered low snaps and snarls. Bo gave her arm a squeeze. "I hear them. They're fighting. Oh, gee!" she panted, and drew a long, full breath of unutterable excitement. "Keep quiet now an' watch an' listen," said the hunter.
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