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Sinister and forbidding, even the sunlight could not lessen their grimness As if in memory of the hundreds of victims who had been bidden jump off those ramparts, merely for Christophe's amusement, or who had been hurled, screaming, as penalty for his displeasure, a ruddy moss feeding upon decay, has spread over the stones, and this moss, ever kept damp by the cloud-banks which wreathe the Citadel continually is moistly red, like newly shed blood.— Plotting in Pirate Seas
Mosses, poppies, saxifrages, cochlearia, and other hardy plants began to sprout, and migratory birds innumerable--screaming terns, cackling duck, piping plover, auks in dense clouds with loudly whirring wings, trumpeting geese, eider-ducks, burgomasters, etcetera, began to return with all the noisy bustle and joyous excitement of a family on its annual visit to much-loved summer quarters But here we must note a difference between the experience of our explorers and that of all others.— The Giant of the North Pokings Round the Pole
Phoebe followed screaming, and the other people now hastened from the cottages Save her!— The Children of the New Forest

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