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Between the rush of wind and the roar of the engine and propeller, he seems scared out of his wits." "We've got to get him off of there somehow and mighty soon, too," put in John, with decision. "Tom, if that monster should begin to slip a little most likely he will coil his tail around some of our control wires, and then what?" Their faces blanched at this prospect.
She let me hold it for a moment, and I saw a flash of ecstatic brilliance in her eye, a glow of glad excitement on her face—I thought my hour of victory was come—but instantly a painful recollection seemed to flash upon her; a cloud of anguish darkened her brow, a marble paleness blanched her cheek and lip; there seemed a moment of inward conflict, and, with a sudden effort, she withdrew her hand, and retreated a step or two back.
The light of youthful joyousness fled from her face; and the cheek, just pulsing softly with new life, blanched to the death-like hue of mortal suffering.
The shawl which she had thrown round her nightclothes had slipped from her shoulders, and her long white robe and pale face lent her the blanched appearance of a second statue embracing the first.
A hoarse voice shouted, "Madge!" Madge started in amazement. Her manuscript dropped to the ground. Every face but hers blanched with terror. The swaying arch was now visible to other people besides Phil. Tom leaped to his feet, but he was tightly wedged in between rows of women. Phil Alden made a forward spring just as the arch tumbled.
If she shut her eyes she could see his sunburnt face, blanched by the moonlight, his strong shoulders, his hands which she had kissed lying on the oars. And mingling with the vision was that other of a grey, dying face, a torn and broken body. Her heart was full of intensest love and yearning; but the love was no longer a torment.
For a long moment she gazed thus saw how his eyes quailed, saw how his cheek blanched, and as he cowered away, she rose slowly to her feet, and into her look came a growing horror; beholding which Spike covered his face and shrank away from her. "Oh, boy " her voice had sunk to a whisper now, "oh, boy say you didn't!" "Hermy I can't " "Can't?" "It's it's all true. Yes, I did!
Rosalind's face blanched with terror as she heard the fearful chorus of enraged voices, and thought of the fearful scene that must follow. "Are the doors secured?" she asked, laying her hand upon George's shoulder. "Yes, I barricaded them all," he answered. "If they do not fire the building, we may be able to keep them off until morning.
Unconscious of the presence of her husband, who now stood reverently, with uncovered head, behind her, she raised to heaven her blanched face and beautiful eyes, and softly prayed, "Holy mother of Jesus, hear the prayer of thy wretched daughter, and intercede for this unshriven spirit." She glanced down at Basilio, and saw that he was dead.
You may flavour a quart of ice-cream with two ounces of sweet almonds and one ounce of bitter almonds, blanched and beaten in a mortar with a little rose-water to a smooth paste. Stir in the almonds gradually while the cream is freezing. A pint and a half of rich cream. A quart and a half-pint of morning's milk. One pound of loaf sugar. Two eggs. One table-spoonful of flour. Two lemons.
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