Then, the oppressive stillness is broken by a little eldritch scream of wind, that sweeps 'round the house, and dies away, remotely.

Everybody screamed with laughter, but I must say it seemed to me rather silly.

"Wind," he screamed at the top of his voice, and jumped for the halliards.

The ridiculous command, 'Do not touch,' cannot be imposed on him while he is screaming in his cradle or protesting in his dinner chair; and so all manner of thingsreels, rings, boxes, tins, that is to say a variety of surfacesis offered to him, to his great delight and advantage.

'SCAT!' cried I, more emphatically than before, but was answered only by an extra shriek from the chairman, and a fiercer scream from the whole assembly.

" "O Willie!" said his mother, laughing, "she screamed for a whole hour, and was so hungry after it that she emptied her bottle without stopping once.

For, in the midst of the ordinary forest sounds, the falling of burs, piping of quails, the screaming of the Clark Crow, and the rustling of deer and bears among the chaparral, he is quick to detect your strange footsteps, and will hasten to make a good, close inspection of you as soon as you are still.

Both men evidently heard the challenge, but she screamed to them again and again.

He is the mocking-bird of squirrels, pouring forth mixed chatter and song like a perennial fountain; barking like a dog, screaming like a hawk, chirping like a blackbird or a sparrow; while in bluff, audacious noisiness he is a very jay.

His horse, doubtless also struck by a ball, dashed off screaming through the wood.

" They sat slapping at the mosquitoes till a whistle screamed on the Lower River.

The roar of the loud report travelled all over the wide lake, creating a great commotion among the feathered people, and they rose up with a general scream into the air.

"Mr. Trius," Apollonie screamed after him with all her might, "if you touch the child you will have to reckon with me, do you hear?

Men, women and children fought desperately with each other to get on board, and in that moment of supreme anguish human nature was seen in one of its worst moods; but who can blame these stricken people? APPALLED BY THE HORROR OF WAR "They were fleeing from les barbares,' and shells that were destroying their homes and giving their beloved town to the flames were screaming over their heads.

But the Snow Spirit answered not, only the wind screamed around the eglu, and his screams were terrible and sad.

The wind screamed about the ruined walls, the smoke eddied round them, and now and then a shower of snow fell on their heads, but they had some shelter and could, if forced, wait for morning.

There came a little, choking scream out of the darkness, and at that I jumped forward into the dark.

This was followed by a bustle among the servants, and screams as of a person in a hysteric fit.

It screamed above him.

Oh, my friend, another is screaming under the lash, in the shed-room, but for what I know not.

And the screaming of the maid afar off in the dark did end very sudden; but in a moment there did be other screamings in diverse places, and the hoarse shoutings of the great men and the thudding of mighty feet that ran this way and that, a-chase.

She heard the insistent scream behind her, but now she did not heed it, for in front of her, stock-still in the trail, was a man.

Her mighty young with morning, doth complain, 5 Soaring and screaming round her empty nest, As Albion wails for thee: the curse of Cain Light on his head who pierced thy innocent breast,

And soon that toil shall end, Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds shall bend Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.

I thought the shock and the sorrow had driven her mad, for she ran screaming up the hill; indeed, I firmly believe that for the time she was quite out of her mind.