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All she said was: "Have our brothers been warned, Vagualame?" "They have not been told yet; but I shall present my friend to them at the first opportunity." There was loud knocking at the shutters! Voices were heard shouting: "Open! Open! Open! The police!" Bobinette grew ashen with terror. "It is all up!" thought the desperate girl: "They will see Vagualame is free! They will find me with him!
Awful expectation was manifest on the face of Potts. "He told me of the mark on your arm. Draw up your sleeve, Briggs, Potts, or whatever other name you choose, and show the indelible characters which represent the name of Bowhani." Potts started back. His lips grew ashen. His teeth chattered.
The only thing that you will have in writing is an address to which I wish you to cable each day after you land at Brindisi, until you turn over your business to your father. You may cable also from Aden and Port Said." The luncheon was "a short horse and soon curried." For a half an hour Hugh Johnstone earnestly whispered to his nephew, whose face was grave and ashen.
A long line, guarded in front and rear, shuffled into the court-room, and, as ordered, ranged themselves against the wall. Among them were old men and young boys, well dressed, clever-looking rascals, collarless tramps, fierce-eyed aliens, smooth-shaven, thin-lipped Broadwayards and Spear. Spear, his head hanging, with lips white and cheeks ashen, and his eyes heavy with shame. Mr.
He stood at his post by the buffet, and ever and anon he would come forward to replenish Messer Ramiro's cup in obedience to the monsters imperious orders. What fortitude was it, I wondered, that kept the old man outwardly so calm? His face was as the face of one who is dead, its features set and rigid, its colour ashen.
Her eyes had taken in all at a glance! the splintered leg, the bandaged arm, the plastered chest, the ashen complexion, the sunken cheeks and the hollow eyes of the poor youth; and utterance failed her! But Ishmael gently and respectfully pressed the hand she had given him, and smiled as he said: "It is very kind of you to come and see me, Miss Merlin. I thank you earnestly."
In mine own person will I go before my Parliament, and with mine own hand will I seal the warrant that rids me of " His voice failed; an ashen pallor swept the flush from his cheeks; and the attendants eased him back upon his pillows, and hurriedly assisted him with restoratives. Presently he said sorrowfully
On the following evening, when he called in Hyde Park Place, the door was opened by the housemaid, and Father Murchison mounted the stairs, wondering what had become of Pitting. He was met at the library door by Guildea and was painfully struck by the alteration in his appearance. His face was ashen in hue, and there were lines beneath his eyes.
As the ship passed on it became more difficult to see the heads. In the greater distance they seemed to be quite close together. All at once, just as a great wave which had hidden them in the farther trough passed on, the mother screamed out: 'She's sinking! she's sinking! Oh, God! Oh, God! and she fell on her knees, her horrified eyes, set in a face of ashen grey, looking out between the rails.
Hence it is much valued in Scotland, and the following couplet, of which there are several versions, still embodies the popular faith: "Rowan-tree and red thread, Put the witches to their speed." But its fame has not been confined to any one locality, and as far south as Cornwall the peasant, when he suspects that his cow has been "overlooked," twists an ashen twig round its horns.
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