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...duel for her hand; now he stood and watched her com ing down the stairs. He saw her silhouette above the banister, heard the thread of her frail singing and her cry, as she caught her heel in the carpet, slipped and fell down, down the great stairway-the thud as her head struck the oak floor. In the years that followed, he iso lated himself from men and affairs, rode about his plantation, distracted his loneliness with the pursuits that became a gentleman-drinking, dicing, riding. Sometimes he talked politics. Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John...
...thud as her head struck the oak floor...
...WONDERFUL VISIT-H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine wistfully intent on indicating that fallen Angels hit the Earth with a dull thud...
...chorus was divided-a part of it in each of the rivals' corners. Choral shouts mingled with the principals' gasps, with the thud of leather on flesh, with the nervous shrieks of the piccolo. The climax arrived with the referee's musical cry of "Foul! !", which "rent the ear" and which was followed by the trained diapason of hoots and yowls from rival corners...
...minute?" Brennan, knowing many, but known to many more, did not recognize the man, but, excusing himself from his sister's company, he followed the man out of the room. Two shots rang out. A human scream vibrated the air. There was a dull thud as a body fell to the floor. Miss Brennan and Cullen dashed out of the room into the hall to find the assassins on the point of leaving and Brennan lying face down on the floor. Miss Brennan seized one of the murderers by the sleeve, but he shook him self free. Two mOre...