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And yet I can't even say I met him, and helped him, on account of my promise, and what saying such a thing would mean. But he might release me from my promise, and even help me to prove my innocence." Then Tom thought of other things of how much easier it would be to drop out of school entirely and let matters take their course. "But I won't!" he exclaimed, sitting up and clenching his fists.
"If he hain't satisfied I'll eat my shirt!" declared the Clown, clenching his brawny fist with a gesture of conviction, as he jumped up simultaneously on his long legs. "Thar ain't a man livin' that could hev done a better job 'n you done for him," he declared. "Jest look 'round ye! Look what it was when we fust come. Reg'lar ruin, warn't it?"
I saw in one instance two brothers-both of whom died the next day of scurvy and who were so helpless as to be unable to rise, pull themselves up on their knees by clenching the poles of their tents in order to strike each other with clubs, and they kept striking until the bystanders interfered and took their weapons away from them. But Stiggall and Emerson never quarreled with each other.
"Oh," she said, facing them and clenching her hands, "sometimes I hate that man! He is unfathomable! There have been times when I wondered if he was human." She bit her lip as if to restrain her words, and then looked up at the partners. "And there are times," drawled the big miner, "when I wonder how long I'll be able to keep my hands off of him.
Losing all control over his temper, he snatched from his neck the jade of Spiritual Perception and, clenching his teeth, he spitefully dashed it down on the floor. "What rubbishy trash!" he cried. "I'll smash you to atoms and put an end to the whole question!" The jade, however, happened to be of extraordinary hardness, and did not, after all, sustain the slightest injury from this single fall.
I hope that, hereafter, when you come to realize to the full your deed, you will be able to give your conscience peace." "My first duty is to God," she answered; and to that pitiable answer there was nothing to be rejoined. So I turned my shoulder to her and stood waiting, Fra Gervasio beside me, clenching his hands in his impotence and mute despair.
"That cat won't jump." Soames shook his head. "An accident," he muttered. Clenching his fist on the paper, George crammed it into his pocket. He could not resist a parting shot. "H'mm! All flourishing at home? Any little Soameses yet?" With a face as white as the steps of Jobson's, and a lip raised as if snarling, Soames brushed past him and was gone....
This was the climax, and her pretty face curiously twisted, she screamed as she struggled away from him: 'Leave me go, will you! leave me go! Oh! I hate you! Then clenching her teeth, and more savagely, 'No, I'll not be touched! No! no! no! I will not!
"M'frien', you don't know that bird!" He sat up, clenching his fist. "And if Dan does come, he can't affo'd to press me too far! I'll take so much, and then " He struck his fist on the arm of the chair. "Buck!" cried Kate Cumberland. "Are you mad? Have you lost your reason? Would you face him?" Buck Daniels winced, but he then shook his head doggedly.
He thinks it may be set aside, they all think it may be set aside. I should not wonder," clenching his hand and speaking through his teeth, "I should not wonder if he has laughed many a time at his fancy of how it will end, and how easy it will be to thrust the old love to the wall!"