'Brother,' says Pug, and turned his head, 'The rabble's monstrously ill bred.' Now through the booth loud hisses ran; Nor ended till the show began.

The sharp hiss the steel runners made was louder, the wind began to scream, and she got something of a shock when she cautiously looked up.

Chain'd at his root two scion-demons dwell, Breathe the faint hiss, or try the shriller yell; Rise, fluttering in the air on callow wings, And aim at insect-prey their little stings.

Frequently there gathered around us a crowd of gaping peasants, and when the word "Americaine" came out, there were "Oh's" and "Ah" of astonishment, or as often, when our explanations were not believed, sibilant hisses that shaped themselves into the menacing word "Spion."

With an angry hiss it uncoiled itself and disappeared.

It was now past noon, and they were thinking of calling a halt for a short rest to the horses and a pipe to themselves, when Joe was heard to give vent to one of those peculiar hisses that always accompanied either a surprise or a caution.

Fire!" All along the line, the faint, sighing hiss of the strange weapons sounded.

From outside came the swift steady hiss of the rain on to the shrubs in the garden, and again the clock chimed.

Pergite porro, my good children,[60] and multiply the sins of your absurdities, till you come to the full measure of the grand hiss, and you shall hear how we shall purge rheum with censuring your imperfections.

It protests with frantic squeals, but these are stopped with a nip that crunches its skull, and the owl is away with it to the old tower, where the hungry children are calling, with weird, impatient hisses, for something to eat.

The pamphlet spreads, incessant hisses rise, To some retreat the baffled writer flies, 30 Where no sour critics snarl, no sneers molest, Safe from the tart lampoon, and stinging jest; There begs of Heaven a less distinguish'd lot Glad to be hid, and proud to be forgot.

After a time it will become cloudy and turbid; little bubbles will be seen rising to the surface, and their abundance will increase until the liquid hisses as if it were simmering on the fire.

Now landing, from their brandish'd tongues there came A dreadful hiss, and from their eyes a flame.

The sun, the moon, the stars, he made To all his creatures free; And spread o'er earth the grassy blade For worms as well as thee. Let them enjoy their little day, Their lowly hiss receive;

Whether this unnatural calm misled Red, he came up closer, braced his forelegs, and thrust his tawny muzzle almost into the other dog's face, drew back his lips from all those shining wicked teeth, and uttered a muffled hiss.

" The room was so silentthough there were more than twenty people in itthat nothing could be heard but the patter of the rain against the window-shutters, accompanied by the occasional hiss of a stray drop that fell down the chimney into the fire, and the steady puffing of the man in the corner, who had now resumed his pipe of long clay.

a fig for &c (unimportant) 643; bah!, never mind!, away with!, hang it!, fiddlededee!, Phr. a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn [Paradise Lost]; I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman [Julius Caesar].

On the grassy border of this lane a flock of geese were tranquilly basking, and, as Ted approached, a vigilant and pugnacious gander rushed towards him, flapping its wings and extending its long neck with portentous hisses.

At times through the darkness a white sheet appeared spread before the path and beneath the wheels of the buggy, which, when withdrawn with a reluctant hiss, seemed striving to drag the exhausted beach seaward with it.

[5640]Cyprian, a serpent hiss) "those amiable smiles, admirable graces, and sweet gestures," which their presence affords.

a fig for &c (unimportant) 643; bah!, never mind!, away with!, hang it!, fiddlededee!, Phr. a dismal universal hiss, the sound of public scorn [Paradise Lost]; I had rather be a dog and bay the moon than such a Roman [Julius Caesar].

"Fry" has here the unusual sense of "buzz, hiss.

And all at once the mutter merged into a vindictive hiss: "Him with his airs and graces, his fine clothes and greasy manners, putting on the lah-de-dah over them that's stood by him when he hadn't a red and was glad to cadge drinks off spiggoties in hells like the Colonel's at Colonhim!"

The lone winds creep with a snakish hiss Among the dwarfish bushes, And with deep sighing sadly kiss

and, as the briny spume closed over it, it went out with a spiteful, protesting hiss.