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The convulsive application of a powder puff to the tip of her burning nose her whole face was aflame with exertion and excitement was merely a part of her whole subconscious effort to get herself in hand for the exigency. Her mind, itself, refused any preparation for the scene that awaited her.
He was on his feet now, his face aflame with a great light. He took a step toward her. "Wait!" she said hurriedly. She glanced at Danglar. The man's face was blanched, his body seemed to have shriveled up, and there was a light in his eyes as they held upon her that was near to the borderland of insanity. "That night at Skarbolov's!" she said, and tried to hold her voice in control.
Negotiations destined to be as spectral and fleeting as the campaign had been illusory now began. The whole Protestant world was aflame with indignation at the loss of Wesel. The States' government had already proposed to deposit Julich in the hands of a neutral power if the Archduke would abstain from military movements.
But the Queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment by his chamberlains; therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger burned in him." ESTHER i: 9-12. We stand amid the palaces of Shushan. The pinnacles are aflame with the morning light.
She put back the hooded fold of her haik, showing him her face, her scarlet mouth, her wide eyes, long at the outer corners, her hair aflame with henna. The hush of a thousand empty miles lay over the city. For an hour nothing lived but the universe, the bright dust in the sky.... That hush was disrupted. The single long crash of a human throat! Rolling down over the plain of the housetops!
And other men and women were aflame up to the middle, and were cast into a dark place and were beaten by evil spirits, and their inwards were eaten by restless worms. These were they who persecuted the righteous and delivered them up to the authorities. And over against these were other men and women gnawing their tongues and having flaming fire in their mouths. These were false witnesses.
Grinnell always " "Mrs. Grinnell's berries are only scrubs." "Scrubs have to be picked carefully so's not to squash them." He laughed outright, and Peace marched on with head high and cheeks aflame with anger. Before she had reached the road, however, he stopped her by saying, "What do you want to pick berries for this hot weather?" "For money. We want some shoes.
With a courage and rage born of a purely animal despair, she turned and locked it; then she wheeled swiftly, her eyes lit with a savage fire, her cheeks pale, but later aflame, her hands, her fingers working in a strange, unconscious way. "So," she said, looking at Rita, and coming toward her quickly and angrily, "you'll steal my husband, will you? You'll live in a secret apartment, will you?
And now the very thought of these vain and silly dreams set her face aflame. Power over him? Let her only remember the humiliations, through which she had been dragged! All the dance came back upon her the strange people, the strange young men, the strange, raftered room, with the noise of the mill-stream and the weir vibrating through it, and mingling with the chatter of the fiddles.
Her long hair hung about it like a curtain, shutting out all view of the face. The doctor walked to the other window and looked out. Hubert sat like a mummy. After a minute Dr. Hood spoke. "Cornelia!" She lifted a face that was aflame. Tears glistened in her eyes, and I doubt not there was a prayer in her heart. "You are a brave girl. I had other plans. You have a right to choose for yourself.
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