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Then it was a lady's glove and not a dancing-card which was thrown in a rival's face, and it was a rapier that flashed and not a clenched fist. "What was the matter over there, Talbot?" she demanded, speaking from behind her fan when the colonel came within hearing. "Nothing! Some little disagreement about who should lead the Virginia reel with Kate. I have stopped the music until they fix it up."
You made a man of me. I lived a clean life because of you. I was your slave. I believe I should have remained so if your husband had died then. But the knowledge that he was coming back to you was too much for me. I couldn't stand that. I broke free." He stopped suddenly and brought his clenched fist down upon the rail as if physical pain were a relief to his soul.
Then suddenly his countenance brightened, his features settled into an expression of firm determination, and rising to his feet, with hands clenched and eyes flashing, he stood before his father, and almost shouted: "Yes, father, I will; I'll tell him. I don't care what he does to me." "God bless you, my brave boy!" exclaimed Mr.
The outcome of this was their first quarrel. "Sacré bon Dieu!" he snarled "thou art never content!" Then he struck her with the back of his clenched fist and, womanlike, she went whimpering to bed. Neither he nor she thought much of the blow. Her mind was on the shoes that did not fit.
And they would seize him in spite of the courage which she knew would never fail. They would kill, they would rend, they would trample him! They would crush that glorious body, abase the lips that had spoke so well of love! The clenched fingers of Lady Catharine broke apart, her arms were flung wide in a gesture of resolution. She turned from the window, looking here and there about the room.
At the same time they noted that Estra, his eyes tightly closed and his fists clenched in the intensity of his concentration, suddenly gave a sigh of relief. Next second he began to speak into the telephone, in a voice so loud as to silence all the clamor. "Savarona, and the people of Venus! Listen! "The prophets were right when they said today would witness many great things!
He brought his clenched fists down hard on the strap arms of his camp chair. 'They can't do it. They can't compel me to do it. Emphatic gesture was not a strong point with Grant. 'Have you said this to the President? 'No, said Grant, 'I have not thought it worth while to assure the President of my opinion.
"But you will, sir, and I can make you. I am stronger than you are, and I have bigger fists. Look here, aren't you afraid?" shaking his clenched fist in the other's face. "No, I am not afraid," spoke Hubert boldly, striving to grapple with his stronger foe. So engaged were the boys, they heard not the approach of Mr.
The countenance of King Richard was, indeed, more flushed, and his action became more feverishly vehement, as, with clenched hand, extended arm, and flashing eyes, he seemed at once to suffer under bodily pain, and at the same time under vexation of mind, while his high spirit led him to speak on, as if in contempt of both. "You can flatter, Sir Knight," he said, "but you escape me not.
The second is the vast system of iron muscles which, as it were, move the limbs of the mighty organism one upon another. What was the railroad-force which put the Sixth Regiment in Baltimore on the 19th of April but a contraction and extension of the arm of Massachusetts with a clenched fist full of bayonets at the end of it?
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