United States or Burundi ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
When it ended that half-articulate convulsion of love and anguish she found herself sitting on the sofa beside him, his head on her breast, his hand clasping hers. 'Do you wish me to go, Catherine? he asked her gently, 'to Algiers? Her eyes implored for her. 'Then I will, he said, but with a long sigh.
Coulson waited for some little time, still sitting on his trunk and clasping his hairbrushes. Then he moved over to the table on which stood the telephone instrument and asked for a number. The reply came in a minute or two in the form of a question. "It's Mr. James B. Coulson from New York, landed this afternoon from the Lusitania," Mr. Coulson said.
He fell from side to side, clasping his hands; his body was covered with a cold sweat, and he trembled and shuddered. He then arose, but his knees were shaking and apparently scarcely able to support him; his countenance was pale, and quite altered in appearance, his lips white, and his hair standing on end.
"Yes, she's not such a cruel tyrant. He'd have beaten you black and blue. I hope she won't tell him about it." A terrified look came into Gracie's eyes, and she burst out crying again. "O Gracie, don't!" Lulu entreated, kneeling down beside the sofa and clasping her arms about her. "I didn't mean to frighten you so.
"What a mercy that the cattle charged down upon us and upset us in this fashion, or we might have had something even more unpleasant to bear," whispered Sylvia, clasping Ducky closer in her arms and feeling grateful for what at first had seemed such an awful disaster. "Cattle thieves?
Too inexperienced to penetrate this bold, and yet simple plan of Clameran's, Madeleine was dumb with astonishment; all her calculations were upset. Mme. Fauvel, on the contrary, accepted this restitution as salvation sent from heaven. "Oh, thanks, monsieur, thanks!" she cried, gratefully clasping Clameran's hand in hers; "you are goodness itself!" Louis's eye lit up with pleasure.
"Oh, my dear your shoulder!" she whispered; and so, clasping tender arms about him, she drew his weary head to her bosom and, holding him thus, covered him with the silken curtain of her hair, and in this sweet shade, stooped and kissed him his brow, his tearful eyes, and, last of all, his mouth.
It was in every respect opposite to my preconceived idea of a penitentiary, and all recollection of its first design fled when I saw Ruth's cheery face, bright and handsome as ever, beaming on me from the first landing, and felt her warm, firm arms clasping me in an embrace of affectionate welcome.
Twice she started to go, twice she paused, held by the presage of a coming event, a presage that robbed her of complete surprise when she heard footsteps on the bridge, saw the figure of a man halting at the crown of the arch to look back at the building he had left, his shoulders squared, his hand firmly clasping the rail.
And now I saw she had dried her tears and the hand clasping mine was firm and resolute, so that my love and wonder grew. "Damaris," I cried, casting me on my knees before her, "O God, how I do love thee!" And, kneeling thus, I clasped her slender loveliness, kissing the robes that covered her; and so, rising to my feet I hasted away.
Word Of The Day