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Speed increases with the lessening chance of proof; the eye flashes more and more fiercely; the breast heaves; the hand clinches; the cheek burns, until, suddenly, in the very moment of despair, having as yet spoken no word, she comes to the table, sees the candle, which still smokes, and drawing herself up with fearful calmness, her cheeks grow pallid, the lips livid, the hands relax, the eye deadens as with a blow, and, with the despairing conviction that she is betrayed, her heart-break sighs itself out in a cold whisper, "Elle fume encore".
Harnack does not merely concede the old position. As might be expected, his rediscussion of the subject clinches the arguments for the traditional view, and makes it impossible ever to call it in question again.
Johnson, to be sure, commends the habit of "browsing" in libraries; and this will do very well for those whose memory clinches, like the tentacula of zoöphytes, around every particle of nourishment that comes within its reach.
"And it is for her sake the good old man shrinks from dragging the matter into the light of day his daughter, probably; and some scoundrel has been at work, and in my regiment." The colonel grinds his teeth and clinches his fists at this reflection. He is a husband and father himself, and now he understands some features in the old doctor's trouble which had puzzled him before.
The first time, he landed his forehead flush on Watson's nose. After that, the latter, in the clinches, buried his face in Patsy's breast. But the enraged Patsy batted on, striking his own eye and nose and cheek on the top of the other's head. The more he was thus injured, the more and the harder did Patsy bat. This one-sided contest continued for twelve or fifteen minutes.
Under the circumstances, I am willing to take care of him, and prepare him to earn his own living when his education is completed. "You may expect to see me early next week. I will bring the boy with me, and enter him at once as a pupil in your school. "Yours, etc., ALLAN ROSCOE." "There, that clinches it!" said Mr. Roscoe, in a tone of satisfaction. "Now for an interview with the boy."
Genevieve had noticed, with a slight touch of amusement, the curious way in which Joe snuggled his body in against Ponta's in the clinches; but she had not realized why, until, in one such clinch, before the snuggling in could be effected, Ponta's fist whipped straight up in the air from under, and missed Joe's chin by a hair's-breadth.
If we want to render a particular combination of ideas permanent in the mind, there is nothing which clinches it like a name specially devoted to express it.
This is made by opening the end slightly and lashing it to the standing part as shown. Cuckolds' necks with lashings or "Clinches" are also used for the same purpose.
And there was no more opportunity for another blow. Joe was too busy living through the storm he had already caused, blocking, covering up, and ducking into the safety and respite of the clinches. But the clinch was not all safety and respite. Every instant of it was intense watchfulness, while the breakaway was still more dangerous.
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