I knew that when I gave orders to slack away the guy-rope so as to swing the stone aboard the brig, the Screamer would list over and dip her rail in the water.
I jumped on top of the stone and threw off the shackles, and the Screamer came up on an even keel as easy as a duck ridin' the water.
The Screamer is a very heavy bird, and rises from the ground laboriously, the wings, as in the case of the Swan, making a loud noise.
A curious thing about theScreamer is that it pairs for life, and yet is one of the most social of birds.
Amongst the feathered notables from all parts of the world found gathered at the Zoological Gardens in London is the Crested Screamer from South America.
And now just a few words about the position of the screamer in systematic zoology.
The late Professor Garrod finds that "from considerations of pterylosis, visceral anatomy, myology, and osteology the screamer cannot be placed along with the Anserine birds.
In fact, he was pretty much the same sort of screamer as Barry Brown, on a very much reduced scale, and these two screamers recognized the fact that they were well-matched antagonists.
Well, my jolly screamer from the Emerald Isle, we just knocked you down, picked you up, and trotted you away.
De little screamer what I refers to am called Little Gilmore.
The old fellow ambled out on the tee, helped himself to a pinch of sand, patted it down carefully, adjusted his ball, and hit a screamer dead on the pin, with just enough hook to make it run well.
The ball, caught squarely in the middle of the club-face, went whistling toward the distant green, a perfect screamer of a drive without a suspicion of hook or slice.
And he proceeded to smack a perfect screamer down the middle of the course--two hundred and fifty yards if it was an inch.
Ther's a reg'lar screamer blowin' up, an' no mistake.
Why, only for our right fielder, Big Bob Jeffries, hitting that screamer straight into the hands of the man playing deep centre instead of lifting it over his head for a homer, we'd have won out.
Phil Parker also rapped a ferocious screamer across the infield, but hit into a double that ended the hopeful rally at bat.
Screamer hung out Nose to nose with Holy Terror as across the creek they swung, An’ M‘Durmer shouted loudly, ‘Put yer tongue out!
An’ the Screamerput his tongue out, and he won by half-a-tongue.
Off they started in disorder--left the jockey where he lay-- And they fell and rolled and galloped down the crooked course and rocky, Till the pumping of the Screamer could be heard a mile away.
It was noticed that the training Of the Screamer was conducted in a dark, mysterious way.
All this time the Screamer tugged harder at her hawser, her bow surging as the ever-increasing swell raced past her.
Look agin, Caleb; see that scar on his cheek; that's where the Screamer hit 'im.
She would sit for hours in her little room next Aunty Bell's, on Saturday afternoons, when she came earlier from work, and watch for the Screamer or one of the tugs to round in, bringing Caleb and the men.
Suddenly a window was opened somewhere in the heavens, and a blast of wet air heaped the sea into white caps, and sent it bowling along towards the Ledge and the Screamer lying in the eddy.
Loading such pieces on board a vessel like the Screamer had never been done in Keyport before.
When breakfast was over, the skipper of the Screamerdropped in to make his first visit, shaking the water from his oilskins as he entered.
As the Screamer rounded to and made fast in the eddy, the Ledge gang were engaged in using the system of derricks, which since the final anchoring had never needed an hour's additional work.
Nick Lang knocked out a screamer that went far over the head of the center fielder.
There, look at him send out a screamer right now, that ought to be good for a double!
Now theScreamer became animated, and speedily reckoned up what would be the daily portion of each of the travellers until their arrival in New York.
He returned to their former topic, and the screamer chuckled when he said that beasts acquire something of the understanding of the men they are with.
Yes, one can do that," replied the screamer in a very loud voice, "one can do that.
The screamer said this ostensibly to Roland alone, but Eric was also to hear it, for he must know that he ought to be grateful to him.
Our angular velocity with respect to them can be checked while the screamer is going; they will know which direction we're moving, if we're moving at an angle.
Smith said a dirty word and pushed himself away from the screamer unit to glower at an unresisting wall.
Anywhere within the Solar System, a screamer can broadcast enough energy to overcome the background noise.
The captain, his maintenance officer, and Jeffry Hull were clustered around the screamer unit in the lounge.
Smith pushed himself away from the screamer panel and came back after a moment with a flashlight.
When did you last have the screamer units inspected?
Each part of a screamer has to be checked separately, right?
Because Designer A decided that the male plug on the screamer should have one more turn on its threads, but he forgot to tell Designer B, who designs the female plug, that the two should match.
A screamer is supposed to call for help, isn't it?
Tris being held on first, Delvin hit a screamer down the first-base line, which rolled to the fence, and Arthur made the round trip with Tris ahead of him.
She turns her right side, as if she were in fear of some large-headed Screamer of the night.
The day grows dark, the Birds retire to rest; Forth from her shadowy haunt Flies the large-headed[69] Screamerof the night.
