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Then one night, seen from a distance, a vast flame licking the low clouds; and afterwards a black ruin where the great house had stood, and so the end of it all forever. During these years, she, herself, had been like a lily in a lake, never uprooted, but buried out of sight beneath the storm that tosses the waves back and forth.
These he inserts under the roots, imbedded as they usually are in loose sandy earth, and then, with a quick jerk, he tosses roots, trunk, and branches, high into the air, a wonderful exhibition of gigantic power. The hunters saw all these proof's of it, as they followed the spoor. The traces of the elephant's strength were visible all along the route.
I was lookin' for him to pass away complete; but he don't. He sets his jaw, tosses his violin on a chair, grabs the music rack, and swings it over his shoulder defiant. "Come on, you brute!" he breathes husky. "I don't know what you are; but " Just what happens next, though, is a cry of "Shame, shame!"
"What does it say, Poll!" asked Eleanor. "It means for us to turn to the left and follow the trail upwards!" said Polly, pointing to the signs. "I should think the ranchers would put up sign-posts to guide travelers!" said Barbara. "How long do you suppose a post would last in a mild little wind-storm that uproots trees and tosses them about like wisps of hay?" laughed Polly. "Oh, Polly!
"If I can sing his language," is his reasoning, "I shall understand, no doubt, what he sings!" After repeated attempts, charmingly comical, and much vain mending of the reed with the edge of Nothung, he grows impatient, is ashamed of his unsuccess before the "roguish listener." He tosses away the silly reed and takes his silver horn. "A merry wild-wood note, such as I can play, you shall hear!
Chauvelin was like a wily and sleek panther that is furtive in its movements, that will lure its prey, watch it, follow it with stealthy footsteps, and only pounce on it when it is least wary, whilst Heron was more like a raging bull that tosses its head in a blind, irresponsible fashion, rushes at an obstacle without gauging its resisting powers, and allows its victim to slip from beneath its weight through the very clumsiness and brutality of its assault.
They are his chief solace when on the road. He sows their seed all along the route. He tosses the core from the car winedow and from the top of the stage-coach. He would, in time, make the land one vast orchard. He dispenses with a knife. He prefers that his teeth shall have the first taste. Then he knows that the best flavor is immediately beneath the skin, and that in a pared apple this is lost.
First my lady, then my lord, then my lady again and at last my lord tosses him to his shoulder, and saith he, "Ho! thou little Jack Pudding! an thou art not still o' th' instant, I'll swear thou art a girl, an' thou shalt ne'er have a sword such as men have." And as I live, the child stinted, and waxed as solemn as an owl! Not another tear did he shed.
"You will be taken to the Commandante. I advise you not to forget yourself; you may find a lariat around your neck." With which admonition the major-domo leaves. He tosses Maxime a bunch of cigaritos, and offers him a light ere going, with some show of courtesy. Valois builds no fallacious hopes on this slender concession. He knows the strange Mexicans.
He shrugs his shoulders, indulges in an unconvincin' little laugh, snaps the case shut, and then tosses it careless down onto the table. "Perhaps you failed to notice the dust," says he. "The back part of the bottom drawer is where that belongs, Torchy or in the waste basket. It's quite hopeless, you see." "Huh!" says I as I turns to go. And this time I meant to get it across to him.
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