Summerlee, the veteran Professor of Comparative Anatomy, rose among
the audience, a tall, thin, bitter man, with the withered aspect of a theologian.
The audience yelled its appreciation of Danny's display of sporting spirit.
The heroe, being unwilling to quit his shoulder of mutton, and as unwilling to draw on himself the indignation of Mr Wilks (his brother-manager) for making
the audience wait, had bribed these his harbingers to be out of the way.
It was only a few years before that time that any white man in
the audience might have claimed me as his slave; and it was easily possible that some of my former owners might be present to hear me speak.
Take the count!" a dozen voices rang out from
the audience.
One day, because the ring-master called him a frog-eater, or something like that and maybe a little worse, he shoved him against the soft pine background he used in his knife-throwing act, so quick the ring-master didn't have time to think, and there, before
the audience, De Ville kept the air on fire with his knives, sinking them into the wood all around the ring-master so close that they passed through his clothes and most of them bit into his skin.
At another, she was to stop, toss her head, and look pertly at
the audience -- she did it.
Shady persons in
the audience revolted from the pictured villainy of the drama.
About it, on three sides, the ordinary part of
the audience had stood during the performance, while the inn-guests and persons able to pay a fixed price had sat in the open galleries which lined the building and ran all around the yard.
A few moments later Kulan Tith indicated that
the audience was at an end, and at Thuvan Dihn's invitation I accompanied the Jeddak of Ptarth to his own apartments, where we sat until daylight, while he listened to the account of my experiences upon his planet and to all that had befallen his daughter during the time that we had been together.
She wished she were sitting down in
the audience with Diana and Jane, who seemed to be having a splendid time away at the back.
This placed us facing the judges and
the audience. Upon the smaller platform each would take his place while his case was being heard.