This dame had something up her sleeve, and took care to see that your taxi man was given a long drive so she'd have plenty of time to croak Warren.

Then I repeated 'The raven himself is hoarse, That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.'

Suddenly the wind died down; the trees became mute; only the frogs croaked a final Hallelujah Chorus, because they alone knew.

"That's odd; so am I," croaked Professor Biggleswade.

If but one day shines clear, in reason's light In spectral dream envelopes us the night; From the fresh fields, as homeward we advance There croaks a bird: what croaks he?

When a poll-parrot can croak the cadenza A nightingale loves, he supposes he sings!

The mournful curlew, the dejected plover and the low-spirited snipe, who sought to join him in his suicidal contemplations, the raven, soaring through the air on restless wings, croaking his melancholy complaints were not calculated to add to the cheerfulness of the scene.

Most certainly," croaked that battered convivialist.

and croaking Night-Crowes in the aire!

The Whisky Jacks, that had been croaking out their hoarse cries all winter, seemed to get sulky and vexed that they were now so little admired, and so they flitted away farther north and buried themselves in the interior of the deepest forests.

I did dreame every night of't, and the Ravens With their unlucky throates never leave croaking Some danger to us all.

Wecertainlyhave!" "We got till noon to-morrow to be outa the county," croaked Jack dear, shifting his Adam's apple rapidly.

"Death!" croaked Adam Orleton, who sat to the right hand, and, "Young de Spencer's death!" amended the Earl of March, with wild laughter; but Ysabeau leaned back in her great chaira handsome woman, stoutening now from gluttony and from too much wine,and regarded her prisoner with lazy amiability.

"And if you'd let me croak this devil like I wanted to, it wouldn't have happened either.

"This is a sad and solemn occasion, paleface," croaked Dismal.

I knew you meant to croak Donnegan.

"Well, well, what is it?" croaked Dunwody hoarsely, half-rising on his crumpled pillow.

'Those fowls of omen I detest, That pry into another's nest, State-lies must lose all good intent; For they foresee and croak the event.

Sinne is a Raven croaking her owne fall.

A few days ago flags were flung out all over Berlin at the news of Hindenburg's victory; military attaches were saying that there had been nothing like this since Napoleon; up and down the streets the newswomen were croaking: "Sechsund-zwanzig tausend Russen gefangen... Hindenburg zahlt noch immer..." ("Twenty-six thousand Russians captured... and Hindenburg's still counting...").

Jim and little Billy licked my face, and Bella croaked out, "Glad to see you, Joe.

" "Your news grows stale," croaked a hag who was passing; "go to the Piazzetta and you shall see the head of one who prayed before the altar ten minutes ago.

"This is a very unfortunate business, hey?" croaked old Harding, as they spun along the road to the place where Mortlake, who was driving, declared Roy had made an appointment to meet the foreign spy.

I do not cite the rapid decline of modern civilized society, in a political or social view, in the most favored sections of Christendom; I do not sing dirges over republican institutions; I would not croak Jeremiads over the changes and developments of mankind.

" "Appearances are oftentimes deceitful," croaked Jones.