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"Puff! bang! whiz-z-z-z! splutter! crash!" "Puff! bang! whiz-z-z-z! splutter! crash!" "My God!" said Lowe, hissing the words slowly and terribly, "they have opened upon us from another battery!" The scene seemed to dissolve. A cold dew broke from my forehead. I grew blind and deaf. I had fainted. "Pitch some water in his face," said somebody. "He ain't used to it. Hallo! there he comes to."
But as the water would not boil all at once she stood there watching the little blue and yellowish flames of that unsatisfactory Thorhaven gas splutter under the kettle. All sorts of thoughts went scurrying about her mind as the clock measured the seconds tick-tock! tick-tock! over her head. How silly of Wilf to begin to talk about marrying at all.
They began to cough, and choke, and splutter, and finally found themselves beside the dogs, where the four of them had a lively time. The other boys yelled with delight, and pointed their fingers at them, "A sneezing concert. Thank you, gentlemen. 'Angcore, angcore'!" Miss Laura laughed too, she could not help it, and even Billy and I curled up our lips.
It’s all gone, and I can’t have you sick on my hands." But Mr. Yellett continued to splutter and flare and use violent language, whereupon the matriarch went into the tent and returned with a drink of condensed-milk and water, "to wash down the nasty taste," she told him, soothingly.
Then you can imagine the times that he had with his companions, ducking under the rollers; or coming in on top of a comber and landing with a swash and a splutter as the big wave went whirling far up the beach; or standing up on his tail and scratching his head as the old people did; or playing "I'm the King of the Castle" on slippery, weedy rocks that just stuck out of the wash.
"Go after the potato salad, will you, Billie? There's a good boy! Wrinkles has refused." "He can't carry the salad with those gloves," interrupted Florinda, raising her eyes from her work and contemplating them with displeasure. "Hang the gloves!" cried Hawker, dragging them from his hands and hurling them at the divan. "What's the matter with you, Splutter?"
“Well, Kiddy Upton’s brother is no myth, is he, Wes?” At that Westby began to splutter. “Conceited chump! He makes me tired. Of all the fresh things—to sit up there and talk about the ‘kids’ in Kiddy’s dormitory!” Carroll laughed in his silent, irritating way. “He certainly put you down and out—a good hard one. Why, even Kiddy was sorry for you.” Westby went on fuming. “Sorry for me!
He entered snorting and puffing, flung his hat on the settle, his stick into the corner; then, dropping into a seat by the fire, he began taking off his gaiters with much snuffling and mumbling and repeated inarticulate explosions of breath. This cat-like splutter always indicated deep feeling in Mr. Blee, and Phoebe asked with concern what was the matter now. "Matter?
From the doorway of Brigade Headquarters I looked into the night and listened to the whistle of shells passing overhead from eastward into our lines. Our own artillery was silent. No sound came from our near infantry lines, not the crack of a rifle, not the splutter of a machine-gun.
Ah! here's our pearl of divers. What luck? she asked, as the heels went down and a dripping head came up. Josie could only choke and splutter at first, being half strangled; but though her hands had failed again, her courage had not; and with a resolute shake of her wet hair, a bright look at the tall lady, and a series of puffs to fill her lungs, she said calmly: "Never give up" is my motto.
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