United States or Maldives ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Carter stopped raving and snarling and became very cool and coherent. "I think I can prove it to you," he said, quietly. "You can't," said Jimsy, turning and walking toward the door. "Are you afraid to listen?" He asked it very quietly. "No," said Jimsy King, wheeling. "I'm not afraid. Go ahead. Get it off your chest." "Well, in the first place, hasn't she kept you at arm's length here?
"Hush sit down! hush!" said Charles Thompson, hurriedly endeavoring to extricate himself from the embrace of his unexpected guest. "Look at 'm!" continued the stranger, unheeding the admonition, but suddenly holding the unfortunate Charles at arm's length, in loving and undisguised admiration of his festive appearance. "Look at 'm! Ain't he nasty? Sha'ls, I'm prow of yer!"
For hours she debated there by her pretty lamp, with the curtains down, and the comforting and reassuring weight of the automatic pistol in her lap. She knew that she must never have that weapon at arm's length from her, but as she remembered where it had come from she wondered to think that she had so easily refused the suggestion of Frank, the market hunter.
The Prince presently became so fascinated by it that he sprang up and tried to catch it, but it eluded his grasp and kept just out of arm's reach, until it had made him promise to follow wherever it led him, and then it sprang upon his shoulder and whispered in his ear: 'We have no money, my poor Mannikin, and we are altogether badly off, and at a loss to know what to do next.
One of his boots would have made a small portmanteau, and one could have clad a child in one of his gloves. So great was his strength that as Leporello he sometimes carried off under one arm a singer of large stature representing Masetto, and in rehearsal would often for exercise hold a double bass out at arm's length.
"Oh, well if you want me to look like a scarecrow, and not get asked again, I've got a dress that'll do PERFECTLY," Undine threatened, in a tone between banter and vexation. Mr. Spragg held her away at arm's length, a smile drawing up the loose wrinkles about his eyes.
Now my heart would so beat that it sickened me, of sheer terror that I should be found; and this especially when a man would stay for a while talking on the stairs within an arm's length of where I lay: now it was as I might say, more of the intellect; and I pondered on what I heard my Cousin Tom say, and marvelled at his shrewdness; for fear, if it does not drive away wits, sharpens them wonderfully.
At the back of his mind, in spite of his disappointment at being kept at arm's length when he wanted something much more definite, was the recognition that here was precisely the show of spirit and dignity which his judgment approved and admired. "I'll let you go, if I must; but I'll come to you if you live in a hovel if you live in a cave if you live Oh, I know how you live!"
But you were bored, your youth was being wasted, you longed for the unexpected, for adventure ... in a word, you accepted with the very definite intention of keeping your admirer at arm's length, but also with the rather ingenuous hope that the scandal would force your uncle's hand and make him account for his trusteeship and assure you of an independent existence. That is how you stand.
Strange that for a few brief moments they were happy; strange, proof marvellous of the dominance of the inner life over the outer, of love over death. "My love, my love!" "Again!" he murmured. "My love, my love!" But at length she came to herself, she remembered. "You will go?" she said. She put him from her and held him fondly at arm's length, her hands on his shoulders. "You will go?
Word Of The Day