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There was neither sky, sun, nor horizon nothing but a brown purple haze of heat. It was as though the earth were dying of apoplexy. "From time to time clouds of tawny dust rose from the ground without wind or warning, flung themselves tablecloth-wise among the tops of the parched trees, and came down again.
She disappeared two or three days ago. Your brother met her again, and he was stricken with apoplexy while with her this evening. She brought him to Mr. Bentley's house." "My father bought her and sent her away." "You knew?" "I heard a little about it at the time, by accident. I have always remembered it.... I have always felt that something like this would happen."
"Why, soldiers, why, Should we be melancholy, boys? Why, soldiers, why, Whose business 'tis to die!" I cannot discover, however, that the general has ever run any great risk of dying, excepting from an apoplexy, or indigestion.
"'Truth to say, this is extraordinary! cried the burgomaster; 'the devil's to pay. Well, the chamber was much visited; the walls were replastered, and the dead man was sent to Neustadt. "The registrar wrote this marginal note: "'Died of apoplexy. "All Nuremberg was enraged against the innkeeper.
After four years there, he sent them to Paris, Florent to Vaugirard, Lydia to the Rue de Varenne, and just at the time that he had realized the amount he considered requisite, when he was preparing to return to live near them in a country without prejudices, a stroke of apoplexy took him off suddenly.
"No," answered Toto. "There are two others. You do not know how I got in, and you do not know how to manage the 'lost water." "That is true," said Malipieri. "But if I let you out you may do me harm, by talking before it is time. The government is not to know of this discovery until I am ready." "The government!" exclaimed Toto contemptuously, from his hiding- place. "May an apoplexy seize it!
A second fit of apoplexy ended his life while his sister, the Princess of Hohenlohe, watched by his death-bed. Prince Leiningen was fifty-two years of age. He had served in the Bavarian army, and was a man of recognised influence among his countrymen in the German troubles of 1848, which cost him his principality. He left two sons, the eldest of whom, Prince Ernest, entered the English navy.
There was a pause that seemed an eternity in passing. Carson's face worked convulsively, and the seeming complacency of the Chairman of the Finance Committee gave place to nervous apprehension as he watched the color surge through the cheeks and temples of our host. He thought Carson was about to have a stroke of apoplexy.
The expected fleet from the West Indies had indeed come, but had gone, since the ships from France, long overdue, had not arrived. D'Anville died suddenly some said of apoplexy, others of poison self-administered. More ships arrived full of sick men and short of provisions.
In the meantime many suggestions for dealing with Mr. Aislabie in a fitting manner were doubtless made by the Captain's brother officers, and, further, some settled course of action seems to have been agreed upon, for we do not hear of any hesitation on the part of the Captain on the arrival of the Mayor, whose rage must by this time have been bordering upon apoplexy.
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