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At the present period of our narrative, and especially on the gloomy morning following the Prophet's unconscious visit to the grave of the murdered man, the popular outrages had risen to an alarming height.
She looked so alarming that Iris felt almost inclined to run away again, but the old lady turned her head suddenly and saw her. "Well," she said, with an air of sarcastic resignation, "what do you want? Any more ducks under bee-hives, or have you got a sick sister too?" "Please, godmother," said Iris, with a great effort, "I want you to let me read to you while Miss Munnion is away."
This letter, it is true, was written previously to the interview at Erfurt, when Napoleon, to avoid alarming Russia, made his ambition appear to slumber. But when he got his brother Joseph recognised, and when he had himself struck an important blow in the Peninsula, he began to change his tone to Louis.
I don't like things that have come out of brass bottles. I shouldn't know what to say, and it would frighten me horribly." "You must be brave, darling!" said Horace. "Remember that it depends on you whether the Professor is to be restored or not. And there's nothing alarming about old Fakrash, either, I've got him to put on ordinary things, and he really doesn't look so bad in them.
We passed Albano's on the other side of the street, being careful not to look at it too closely, for several men were hanging idly about pickets, apparently, with some secret code that would instantly have spread far and wide the news of any alarming action.
'I kenn'd it would be this way, she muttered, 'and it's e'en this way that it should be. The ball had penetrated the breast below the throat. It did not bleed much externally; but Bertram, accustomed to see gunshot wounds, thought it the more alarming.
By this time the agitation against the license fee had reached an alarming height, for the first successes of the new discoveries had passed away, and, although the export of gold continued to increase, it was by no means at its former rate nor in proportion to the increase of population.
I learned that Angelo, severely wounded in a foreign engagement, had been left for dead upon the field; that his life was saved by the humanity of a common soldier of the enemy, who perceiving signs of existence, conveyed him to a house. Assistance was soon procured, but his wounds exhibited the most alarming symptoms.
But they scarcely made speed enough, for they were still among tall whins and stiff scrub of heather when the sun began to get low, gorgeously lighting the tall plumes of golden broom, and they had their doubts whether they might not be off the track; but in such weather, there was nothing alarming in spending a night out of doors, if only they had something for supper.
"I wander like a lost spirit round the house; I question all who come from it. Tell me oh, tell me, is there hope?" "I do, indeed, trust so," replied Ferrers, fervently. "The illness has only of late assumed an alarming appearance. At first it was merely a severe cold, caught by imprudent exposure one rainy night.
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