Tea was ready on a low table, a swinging brass kettle hissing merrily, with an air of supreme homeliness.

The realm of Arabia was virtually his, and the constant succession of embassies promising obedience and expressing homage continued until the end.

The lower-deck ports lay completely under water, and several times the muzzles of the main-deck guns were plunged into the sea; so that the ends of the grating on which the remains of poor "Dolly" were laid, once or twice nearly touched the tops of the waves, as they foamed and hissed past.

This has been borne and the author despised, and indignantly hissed from the society of the respectable and virtuousbut the end is not gainednew themes of revilingnew subjects of abuse must be sought, and the party who wish to effect a revolution, are pledged to uphold and protect the agents however wicked.

General Walker, though a brave man, and cool in battle, will nevertheless dodge when a bullet hisses him fiercely.

We quote this treatise as Dante's, because the thoughts seem manifestly his; though we believe that in its present form it is an abridgment by some transcriber, who sometimes copies textually, and sometimes substitutes his own language for that of the original.]

Quick as a wink Robin sprang to his feet, and, at one bound, crossed the stream and the roadside, and plunged headlong into the thicket, without looking around, for he knew right well that that which had hissed so venomously beside his ear was a gray goose shaft, and that to tarry so much as a moment meant death.

The monster hissed aloud, and raged in vain, And writhed his body to and fro with pain; And bit the spear, and wrenched the wood away; The point still buried in the marrow lay.

They all extended their necks and hissed angrily at him.

He affects to introduce into his common talk Italian and French words; and often answers an English question in French, which language he greatly prefers to the barbarously hissing English.

" I tied up the dinghy and followed her inside, where the table was decorated with bread and butter and the remnants of the cold pheasant, while a kettle hissed away cheerfully on the Primus.

Once they were cornered they would whip their tails about and inflate their necks, hissing dangerously.

" "Just try it," Laura hissed at them dramatically from the head of the stairs.

They must have burned you like the deuce, for you hiss dreadfully.

For a minute or even more, the single log that was still burning in the fireplace hissed drowsily, and I could hear the vines tapping gently on the windows.

Throughout that period he had sat unemotionally behind his desk and listened in an aloof, cold, professional manner to the stories of their wrongs as they sobbed or hissed them forth.

When the water-snake got this reply he raised his head a whole foot from the ground, and hissed furiously: "Vish vash!

"I'd like to kill you, Carlyle," he hissed hatefully.

All day long I wandered up and down the valley, and when it grew dusk I crept into a little cave, and having blocked up the entrance to it with a stone, I ate part of my little store of food and lay down to sleep, but all through the night the serpents crawled to and fro, hissing horribly, so that I could scarcely close my eyes for terror.

"It wasn't fair," hissed Midshipman Page hotly.

It was only a little after nine o'clock, but the streets were almost deserted; the arc-lamps clicked and hissed lonesomely; rows of darkened windows and shadowy doorways ran away on both sides.

He followed them with his eyes a long while; then began to hiss loudly to himself, apparently pleased with the thought that had occurred to himthen he fell asleep.

Eustace was lying asleep in a chair before him with his face flushed and drooping on his shoulder, and his breath hissing noisily through his parted lips.

"But you'reyou're stupid," he hissed, passionately.

Inside the door a soda fountain hissed provocatively.