While the men were still watching the slow dispersal of the shell smoke, and passing comments upon how near to them was the line it had taken, another and another shell whooped over them in a prolonged line on the fields beyond.
The rifle fire was slackening and dying along the line, but the shells still whooped and rushed overhead and burst flaming and rolling out balls of white smoke over the ground in front.
Flash and detonation succeeded flash and detonation; the rain poured in torrents; and the wind whooped on the angry sea like a demon of destruction.
Geronimo waved his rifle as a signal that enemies were sighted, and the warriorswhooped to join him.
Knowing how to get the last burst of speed from his tired pony, Geronimo whooped and sped to the attack.
A month ago they would have whooped derision at the suggestion of riding anywhere after fresh eggs and "juvenile hens," but now it seemed to them very natural and very necessary.
For two days the wind had raged and ranted over the hilltops, and whooped up the long coulees, so that tears stood in the eyes of the Happy Family when they faced it; impersonal tears blown into being by the very force of the wind.
We yelled at him and whooped at him, it never done no good; but the first time there come a little wee noise that wasn't of a usual kind it woke him up.
Gaston whoopedwith joy and turned the machine gun upon it.
Wandering about in the vicinity of their billet, the four Brothers whooped with joy at sight of a good-sized creek, which looked to be not more than a quarter of a mile back of the depot.
Suddenly he whooped and August Naab hauled back the gate, and the two horses, neck and neck, thundered out upon the level stretch.
It whooped down the hollow, scattering the few scrub-oak leaves; it whirled the red embers of the fire away into the dark to sputter in the snow, and blew the burning logs into a white glow.
August Naab whooped when he reached the valley, and Indian braves appeared, to cluster round him, shake his hand and Hare's, and lead them toward the centre of the encampment.
In the middle of the night she whooped, and she whooped in the morning.
I whooped so hard once it smashed one o' the best echoes in the place all to flinders, an' of course that made the work twice as harder.
At the first whoop Mr. Bear jumped ten feet and fell over backwards onto the floor; at the second he scrambled to his feet and put for the door, but stopped and looked around hopin' he was mistaken, when I whooped a third time.
But no one among themwhooped louder or laughed longer than their elderly and bewhiskered friend, who sat among them, paying the bills.
Mother said over in sight on a joining farm the overseers whooped somebody every day and more than that sometimes.
Somehow they scared him up but he didn't git whooped thater time.
Old mistress--we all called her Miss Liza Jane--whooped us when she wanted to.
Divin' between the legs of garcons loaded down with silver and china dishes was the best sport they'd struck in a month, and they just whooped it up.
But they does--washed each other's faces, and laughed and whooped it up until dark.
She said she had seen them whooped to death in the yards because they didn't want to be sold.
The Ku Kluckses whooped some, tied some out to trees and left 'em.
He whooped them if he thought they needed it and he knowed when and where to stop.
He and my father had a fuss an he tied my father to some rails and whooped him.
They stripped mama's clothes down to her waist and whooped her, beat the blood out with cowhides.
Her husband whooped her, so she was glad to be sold.
In it four black, feather-bedecked children whooped in wild glee until suddenly Terry's war cry changed to a scream of panic.
Billy also stood, lifted his chin and whooped like the wildest little savage that ever came out of the West.
So we whooped once more, and again, until a scissors-grinder, who had gone to sleep on the grass under a tree, woke up with a start.
Men laughed and whooped over that; some of them were so tickled that they danced about and waved their arms in the air.
People shouted, automobiles tooted; the soldierswhooped on the trail.
The backwoodsmen rushed up to the attack, while the Indians whooped and yelled defiance.
At first but a few Indians appeared, on the side of the Lexington road; they whooped and danced defiance to the fort, evidently inviting an attack.
A heavy shell whooped roaring over them and crashed thunderously close behind the parapet.
Flash and detonation succeeded flash and detonation; the rain poured in torrents: and the wind whooped on the angry sea like a demon of destruction.
The Injun, findin' that his we'pon war gone, whooped an' yelled wusser nor ever.
The most of the braves war still out arter the old man, an' I could easy tell by the way they whooped an' yelled that they hadn't ketched him.
A bullet struck him dead as he whooped his West Countrymen on to the charge.
One, through some freak of gunnery, lobbed slowly through a division, and the men whooped and threw their caps at it as it passed.
I heard them say they would get whooped if they sot around with a book in their hand.
She sent me to him and he whooped me for singing: "Cleveland is elected No more I expected.
If he'd found that out he'd 'bout whooped Aunt Mary to death.
They knowed how bad they got whooped on Ozoo River.
They whooped her awful and rubbed salt and pepper in the gashes, and another man stood by handed her a hoe.
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