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"Is she really asleep?" asked the major. "Feel her hand," said the doctor; "it is quite cool and calm." Athalie felt the major take hold of her hand. "But just look, doctor," said he; "if you look closely you will see under the nails of this beautiful hand fresh blood!" At these words Athalie's fingers suddenly clinched, and the major felt as if eagle's claws were running into his hand.
Dyckman tried to withhold his vulnerable solar plexus by crouching, but Cheever kept whizzing through his guard like a blazing pinwheel even when it brought his jaw in reach of an uppercut. Dyckman clinched and tried to bear him down, but Cheever, reaching round him, battered him with the terrific kidney-blow, and Dyckman flung him off.
Then surely" he lifted his face appealingly as to a person enthroned amidst the stars "surely thou wilt release me from this too long life.... If I fail" he clinched his hands "if I fail, they may exile me, they may imprison me, they may stretch me on the rack, but they cannot kill me." Then he walked rapidly, his head down, like a man driven.
"That is not what I asked you," and Brant squared his shoulders, his hands clinched. "My question was, Who is at the head of this outfit? and I want an answer." The spokesman looked around upon the others near him with a grin of derision. "Oh, ye do, hey? Well, I reckon we are, if you must know.
For it is natural that your reform has been brought about by a woman; you always were an admirer and connoisseur of the fair sex." Anselmo sprang upon Benedetto and, holding his clinched fist in his face, he said: "Benedetto, if you care to live, don't say another word!" "And why?" asked the wretch, with silent contempt. "Because I shall not stand it," replied Anselmo, coldly.
Father Knickerbocker met them at the ferry, giving one a right-hander on the nose and the other an upper-cut with his left, just to let them know that the fight was on. William was for business; Jack was for Art. Both were young and ambitious; so they countered and clinched. I think they were from Nebraska or possibly Missouri or Minnesota.
Moreover, she had not played fairly, and for her wickedness he lay now as he had lain so long, drifting slowly but surely toward that land of shadows whence there is no return. She clinched her small hands in the darkness and wept, and they were woman's tears.
A gasp showed he was hit; then he clinched my throat once more. Sight went from me, and hearing. "It is no use," I thought, and then thought went, too. But once again the saints were kind to me. The blackness passed, and I wondered what had happened that I was spared. Then I saw Grammont clutching with both hands at the dagger-hilt. After all, the blow had gone home.
"Men moved about with clinched teeth and bowed-down heads; women bathed in tears and found relief, while little children asked their mothers why all the people looked so mournful," and we, as we came up out of Egypt, lifted up our voices and wept. Our friend was no more, but intrenched in the hearts of his countrymen as one who did much "to keep the jewel of liberty in the family of nations."
All the same, there's them as says that it's a queer thing it should ha' given altogether when young squire walked on it." Collingwood clinched matters with a straight question. "You don't mean to say that people are suggesting that the foot-bridge had been tampered with?" he asked. "There is them about as wouldn't be slow to say as much," answered the landlord. "Folks will talk!
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