One knife went right through him, and grated with a harsh squeak on the cobble-stones beneath.

Maria, as he uttered it, squeaked distressingly.

He was so scared that he could only squeak very faintly, but he did manage to ask the boy to let him go, only the boy didn't understand guinea pig language, as I do, and, even if he had, I doubt very much if he would have let Buddy go, for he was a bad boy as I have explained.

Mrs. Dusty and young Queenie walked arm in arm behind them, and whenever they saw a soldier they squeaked loudly, and addressed him invariably as "Colonel Mawmajuke.

'No toys like that,' he said again, repeating his last words, and Elzevir answered: 'May it please your worship, we are sailors from over sea, and this boy has a diamond that he would sell.' I had the gem in my hand all ready, and when the old man squeaked peevishly, 'Out with it then, let's see, let's see,' I reached it out to him.

" "Heaven pity Him!" said Katie, and rocked and her chair squeaked savagely.

The hinges of the little-used front door were rusty and had squeaked startlingly.

Branching to the right, at the foot of the stairs, was another passage from which the cellar was reached after you had used all your strength to push open a huge iron door that squeaked uncannily on its stiff hinges.

" The music was in full swing; it was chiefly brass; but now and then, in softer moments, one could hear a violin squeaking uncertainly.