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At intervals, too; I could distinguish the sound of big waves "seas," as the sailors call them breaking against the vessel with awful crash, as if a huge trip-hammer or battering-ram had been directed with full force against the timbers of the ship. I had no doubt that the vessel was in danger of being wrecked; and under this belief you may fancy my situation.
The idea is so wonderful that, although hope causes his heart to beat like a trip-hammer, he remains silent. When the time comes, Craig, Sr., will speak; he knows this of old.
The king was confounded in his sleep, and when he awoke, his heart beat like a trip-hammer, and his fear was exceeding great. In the morning, when he arose, he sent and called for his wise men and his magicians, and told them his dream. One of his wise men, Anoko by name, stood up, and said: "Know, O king, this dream points to the misfortune which Abraham and his descendants will bring upon thee.
Amid the throngs swarming down the gangways he suddenly saw his daughter, and he gave a little gasp of surprised pleasure, and a mist swam before his eyes and a great lump came into his throat and his heart beat as a trip-hammer. It was the same Peg that had gone away a month ago. The same little black suit and the hat with the berries and the same bag and "Michael" in her arms.
Though Antwerp was to all intents and purposes a besieged city for many weeks prior to its capture, it was not until the beginning of the last week in September that the Germans seriously set to work of destroying its fortifications. When they did begin, however, their great siege pieces pounded the forts as steadily and remorselessly as a trip-hammer pounds a bar of iron.
She had seen that Tom had thrown aside caution, and she had come up to join him. "That man I know him!" the young inventor exclaimed. "It is Feldman the one who wanted to be changed from the trip-hammer to the airship department. But who is that with him?"
He felt the warm body trembling, and the thought that it was not entirely from the cold set his heart beating like a trip-hammer. What he felt was so strange to him that he stepped back in a vague alarm, and then laughed. She stood with an expectant smile. "Jack, how am I to risk you in the arms of all the strangers in that dance? "It's late. Listen!"
I came thoughtfully back across the hall; an invisible trip-hammer appeared to hit the floor beside me at every step; I attempted to step aside from it, over it, away from it; but it followed me, pounding into my room. "Wind?" suggested Allis. "Plaster cracking? Fancies? Dreams? Blind headaches? I should like to know which you have decided upon?"
Dull and distant they were, and somewhere above them momentarily more distinct receding gone! Detroit Jim pulled Andersen's head toward him, and whispered: "Sidewalk! People going by! We've never sat right here before! We wouldn't hear them if they weren't walking on stone, or slate, or something hard!" The old man's heart pounded like a trip-hammer.
Bliss told him he had a bare chance of recovery, 'Then, said he, 'we will take that chance, doctor. When asked if he suffered pain, he answered: 'If you can imagine a trip-hammer crashing on your body, or cramps such as you have in the water a thousand times intensified, you can have some idea of what I suffer. And yet, during those eighty-one days was heard neither groan nor complaint.
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