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Just to sit on when you're tired, I reckon." The sibilant burring of a rattler in the brush set his neck and back tingling. "And what snakes was made for, gets me! They ain't good to eat, nohow. And they ain't friendly like some of the bugs and things. I'm thinkin' that that there snake what clumb the tree and got Mrs.
But he does get so interested in the shop. That machine means more to him, whatever it is, than anything else about the place." There came a harsh burring sound from within both the shop and the house. Haines seemed surprised. "Visitors," he said. "He seldom has one; and I never knew any to come at night before." They saw the figure of Locke cross one of the shed windows toward a door.
"We will see thee safely home, and improve the occasion by cracking a few more bovine skulls if we meet them, the northern burring brutes. Their lingo sickens me, but here we are." So speaking, he opened the door of the vaulted chamber he called his "den." It was sparingly furnished, and bore no likeness to the sort of smoking divan an undergrad of the tone of Ralph would affect now in Oxford.
It was going from manner to manner, from habit to habit, and in the minds of these London spectators there surely floated dim images of the traditional kilts, the burring speech, the grouse, the canniness, the oat-meal, all the elements of a romantic Scotland. The train swung impressively around the signal-house, and headed up a brick-walled cut.
"You think so?" said Fleur shortly. "Worries," repeated Monsieur Profond, burring the r's. Fleur spun round. "Shall I tell you," she said, "what would give him pleasure?" But the words, "To hear that you had cleared out," died at the expression on his face. All his fine white teeth were showing. "I was hearin' at the Club to-day about his old trouble." Fleur opened her eyes. "What do you mean?"
For a moment, even amid the smoke of the car, he seemed to scent clover, and hear the stiff swishing of the corn and the dull burring of the bees. "I wish sometimes," he said, leaning forward to look at his bride, "that I had been born something else than a farmer. But I can no more help farming, Annie, than a bird can help singing, or a bee making honey. I didn't take to farming.
We made a sally and levelled a few of the burring brutes before the town guard came up and spoiled the fun. What a pity we can't fight like gentlemen with swords and battle axes!" "Why not, if you must fight at all?" said Martin, who had been taught at Kenilworth to regard fists and cudgels as the weapons of clowns.
They rushed in amongst us, pouring blessings on our heads, in their strange burring west-country speech, and embracing our horses as well as ourselves. Preparations were soon made for our weary companions. A long empty wool warehouse, thickly littered with straw, was put at their disposal, with a tub of ale and a plentiful supply of cold meats and wheaten bread.
THE DYNAMO. To the man who has been all his life thinking of the steam engine as the highest and almost only embodiment of controlled mechanical power, another machine, both supplementary to the steam engine and far excelling it, whose familiar burring sound is now heard in almost every village in the United States and has become the characteristic sound of modern civilization, must constitute a source of continual question and surprise.
The young generation had almost no Irish accent, but all had sifted down to the peculiar burring nasal whine of the backwoods Canadian. Mr. and Mrs. Raften met Yan at the station. They had supper together at the tavern and drove him to their home, where they showed him into the big dining-room living-room kitchen.
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