The little man, glaring through his monocle and rasping the plush arm-chair with his nails, insisted that this was sheer cant, one had only to look in the glass to see how ugly Nature could sometimes be!
These men-- And then one of them suddenly cleared his throat with a rasping sound like old Dave Wiswell, his dried little cowman of the picture, and embarrassment dropped from Luck like a cloak flung aside.
A shrill rasping of chain and an involuntary cry of mingled surprise and apprehension from the two in the boat interrupted the Second Officer's explanation.
His left hand caught in the girder, the flat edgerasping the skin almost to the bone.
He could begin operations with less chance of being detected, for the rasping of the steel point against the cement was inaudible during the firing.
At first the conversation was baldly desultory, as it was bound to be, with an escaped lover, whose disappointment was still rasping him like a newly devised Nessus shirt, to sustain an undivided half of it.
It's all there," he went on in the same rasping undertone.
Black Tom sat down with a complacent air, and his raspingvoice came from the other side of the glass.
Some^ times, in the pauses of rasping voices, the birds were heard to sing from the trees on the lawn outside.
The night wore on; the house was quiet; only the husky rasping of the child's hurried breathing came from the floor above.
Jack Battle and I looked at each other, but the Indian fellow, who was our guard, emitted a harsh, rasping laugh.
Gordon Makimmon started forward with a rasping oath, but, before he could reach the ground, General Jackson had propelled himself to the fringe of humanity.
The noise produced by the rasping is enjoyed by Hikuli; that is why he is placed beneath the bowl.
The dust produced by the rasping of the shaman in the course of the night is carefully gathered up and kept in a buckskin bag as a powerful remedy for future use.
But all rouse themselves for the important acts of curing the people by rasping and of despatching Hikuli.
The dancing may sometimes lag, but the singing and the rhythmical rasping of the shaman are kept up through the night, interrupted only once or twice, when he sees fit.
When the Spaniards first came, they found no musical instruments among the Tarahumares except the short reed flute, so common to many Mexican tribes, the shaman's rattle, and the rasping stick.
The shaman rises from his seat, carrying in his hands his rasping implements, and, followed by a boy who carries a gourd with water, he proceeds to confer upon everybody present the benediction.
While she leaned over to pour out the tea, she murmured in a rasping whisper, "Mammy Riah is crying so I wouldn't let her come in.
After a night of anxious care, the little fellow relapsed into a state of coma, and lay for hours, white and still, save for the rasping of his breath.
Then their blades met, and amid a shower of sparks and the clicking and rasping of steel, Raymond found himself at pains to defend his unvisored face, and it was not long before the blood was flowing freely from a cut on his cheek.
They heard the oars tossed into the boat, and the rasping voice of the water-bailiff as he descended the stone steps of the quay and stepped into the boat.
This was the cold, incisive, cutting, rasping voice which Bingo was wont to describe as razors and files.
His voice came in a rasping croak from his ashen lips as he said: "Lady Hannah mentioned my wife to this man, thinking that she might prove to be the daughter of the owner of the ring.
I turned pale; for that harsh and rasping voice, coming from the lips of one who resembled my mistress, seemed a symbol of my experience.
It was the malady of the age, or rather was it that girl herself; and it was she who, with her pale, halfmocking features and rasping voice, came and sat with me at the end of the tavern room.
Hicks uttered a rasping oath, that seemed to catch, growling, in his lean throat.
With the first lightening of the sky in the east he stopped, breath rasping in his chest, to mark his direction before the stars faded.
He was suddenly aware of the pain and fatigue, the sweat soaking his body and the breath rasping in his throat.
Breath rasping in his dried throat, he sawed at the tough stem, finally cutting it through.
A coughing fit broke the rhythm of his rasping breath, and when it was over his breathing was easier.
The rasping of their bare limbs against the tin roof of the cottage did not disturb Daddy Skinner struggling for breath in the room below.
There are few city men who have the agricultural impulse so strong in them that they will find delight, after a day of mental labor and excitement, in rasping a garden with a hoe in the hope of securing a vegetable harvest.
There was a sort of a rough, buzzing, rasping sound which I have never observed before.
And she leaned back and laughed with rasping mockery, which galled his ears--although for some strange reason she could no longer gall his soul.
But he was in a mood of rasping cynicism--even the exquisite evening sunlight seemed to mock at him.
He pushed her away,--gently, but he was worn out; her rasping tone fretted him.
A crash, a gurgling sound of rushing water, a ripping, rasping noise.
Something in the young face, so pathetic in its youth, with the ravages of disease visible in the hectic cheek, and harsh, rasping cough, touched the strong young officer.
The grater or rasping machine was of copper, to avoid injuring the color of some of the starches, which an iron grater is liable to do:-- TABLE NO.
With a rasping snarl he buried his claws in the shaggy bark, pressing his body still closer to the limb, and then shot downward straight toward Jack, who was too vigilant to be caught unprepared.
Even on the tract of open-forest or clearing they intruded themselves, and he suddenly felt the familiar rasping vegetable wire twisting about his ankles.
A rasping howl followed, and the horrible face vanished a speedily as if the owner had been standing on a trap-door, which was sprung.
Dr Gollipeck gurgled pleasantly in his throat at this and laughed, that is, something apparently went wrong in his inside and a rasping noise came out of his mouth.
Drop it,' said Slivers severely, in his rasping little voice.
Slivers hoped devoutly that his shadow never would be less, as that would involve the loss of several other limbs, which he could ill spare; so he honoured Mr Jarper's toast with a rasping little laugh, and prepared to talk.
Just as the last shove of the carpenter's plane removes the marks of the previous work, so the last rasping of a glacial movement wears away the surfaces which have been previously polished and striated.
