Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and
blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale.
Restrain also the keen fury of my heart which provokes me to tread the ways of
blood-curdling strife.
Captain Hall was a dreadfully profane man and used to swear
blood-curdling oaths.
White Fang, near the corner of the cabin and forty feet away, was snarling with
blood-curdling viciousness, not at Scott, but at the dog-musher.
Immediately from different points of the compass rose a horrid semicircle of similar shrieks and screams, punctuated now and again by the
blood-curdling cry of a hungry panther.
Blood-curdling yells of defiance were the only answer to our prayers.
He never said he was attacked by Bedouins, I believe, or was ever treated uncivilly, but then in about every other chapter he discovered them approaching, any how, and he had a
blood-curdling fashion of working up the peril; and of wondering how his relations far away would feel could they see their poor wandering boy, with his weary feet and his dim eyes, in such fearful danger; and of thinking for the last time of the old homestead, and the dear old church, and the cow, and those things; and of finally straightening his form to its utmost height in the saddle, drawing his trusty revolver, and then dashing the spurs into "Mohammed" and sweeping down upon the ferocious enemy determined to sell his life as dearly as possible.
But presently Numa gave up the chase and, with a series of
blood-curdling moans and roars, turned angrily back in search of another and an easier dinner.
Close at hand, now, was a chance for a
blood-curdling Alpine adventure.
The two friends, huddled trembling in their precarious position on the limb, saw the great lion halt in his restless pacing as the
blood-curdling cry smote his ears, and then slink quickly into the jungle, to be instantly lost to view.
This it was, I am certain,--the most indescribable of
blood-curdling sounds,-- that threw me into a panic.
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