With a frightened little squeak Whitefoot darted back, and for a long time he was afraid to come out again.
He heard the faint little squeak again and with it a little splash.
Water-voles, as a rule, are silent little creatures; unless attacked or frightened they seldom squeak as they move in and out of the lush herbage by the riverside.
A low squeak of warning, uttered by the father vole as he dived into his burrow, caused the young mice foraging in the undergrowth to bolt helter-skelter towards home.
They may be heard to speak or sing, usually with thin voices, like bats: as aEurooethe sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.
At some time near two o'clock, when he was beginning to sleep more soundly, he was aroused by a shrill squeak that had been familiar enough to him when he lived regularly at Marygreen.
We have had a very nearsqueak with our nice beauties in front of us.
If ever you see Johnny you will, perhaps, remember the narrow squeak I had while taking him to school.
The coroner's squeak was thinner, more irritating than ever.
The coroner made a long squeak as an indication of mirth.
I can hear the squeakof that fat cork now; I can recall the pleasure of smelling those dizzy fumes as I thrust the gauze into her face.
She sprang to her feet and with a little squeak of delight marched to the middle of the shop and taking her stand began to sweep the shelves with her dancing eyes.
Just then there was a scurry in the hall outside and the squeak of childish voices.
That is the narrowestsqueak I've ever had," he murmured.
A narrow squeak that," murmured Trent under his breath.
All at once, in the middle of the tournament scene, the shrill sharp squeak of a catcall greeted on our ear, and turning rapidly round, we detected a Political Economist in the act of commencing a concerto.
The old lady smiled benignly, as though rather tickled with that joke, and was understood by the boys to protest that she had eaten more than enough, though her squeak had not yet become intelligible to them.
The faint squeak of his boots told me that he had stolen to the door to listen.
Illustration] Conceiving that his hour had come, the Bandicoot gave a shrill squeak of terror and fell on his knees.
I have a horrible schoolboy recollection of a hare who would squeak in my pocket, and of a keeper passing within ten yards of where I lay hidden.
And then the astounded Tom heard the worrying of a terrier, and the squeak of a dying rat.
Toby shook his head, and devoured this second cake as quickly as he had the first, craning his neck, and uttering a funny little squeak as the last bit went down, just as a chicken does when he gets too large a mouthful of dough.
After a while the old monkey seated himself on Toby's arm and cuddled close up to him, uttering now and then a contented sort of a little squeak as the boy talked to him.
But suddenly I was recalled to the present by hearing, almost beneath me, the low shuddering squeakof an opening window.
After three quarters of an hour or so I was suddenly startled alert by hearing the squeak-squeak of a whippletree out on the lawn.
Now the old weasels in their dreams had perhaps heard the echo of that shot; at least the old King Weasel imagined he had heard the young weasel’s squeak of fear.
Fluff even ventured to give a pleading little squeak which meant to reassure them, but it was no use; evidently they too took him for a ghost, for like a flash they were off, and all he saw of them was five vanishing brown tails.
Then, fully awake, it plunged straight through the cobweb curtain, tearing it apart from end to end, and sending back a sharp, encouraging squeak to the smaller fur ball to follow.
He had, however, a narrow squeak of it; for a splinter had jogged his leg from the ankle to the knee, while the bollard on which he had been standing had been shot away under his feet.
Further demonstration, and then an indignant squeak from Blank.
Every discussion day he took advantage of a lull in the debate to squeak out, "With regard to the infinite," and then could never get any further.
And if I don't evensqueak you will know I am to be trusted.
Chris uttered a squeak of delight, and sprang forward.
I think," his master was speaking in a voice that shook, "I think the metal squeak has fallen inside the animal's tummy.
He hasn't had his proper morning battle yet, and onesqueak will precipitate a catastrophe.
My tone was, I knew, both peevish and provoking; and many a brown rat, in the position of my companion, would have stopped my doleful squeaking at once by giving me something to squeak for.
I carefully examined the walls, till I discovered a hole, probably made by some rat of the place, and through this I entered the house, and proceeded at once with eagerness to a small barred division, from whence a feeble squeak proceeded.
Ah, but--" Whiskerandos commenced, but our conversation was suddenly interrupted by a little squeak from the hedge close behind us.
Sugar--" There was a universalsqueak of approbation.
Not the faintest squeak from its recesses has ever stirred the sensitive hairs of my watchful ear.
If you happen to clutch a little with gratification or excitement, your claws don't go through; and they don't squeak like a mouse in a trap and call you treacherous because their own coats are thin.
I can make Squire Tom squeak to a pretty tune whenever I like, and the widow--well, she's not a bad sort of woman to come and sit in the nest she has helped to line.
