Speech is the familiar vent of human thoughts; but there are emotions so simple and overpowering, that they rush out not in words, but eloquent sounds.

At such moments man seems to lose his characteristics, and to be merely one of the higher animals; for these, when greatly agitated, ejaculate, though they cannot speak.
There was something terrible and truly animal, both in the roar of triumph with which the pursuers burst out of the thicket on our fugitives, and the sharp cry of terror with which these latter darted away.

The pursuers hands clutched the empty air, scarce two feet behind them, as they fled for life.

Confused for a moment, like lions that miss their spring, Dierich and his men let Gerard and the mule put ten yards between them.

Then they flew after with uplifted weapons.