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Thinking the wind had blown the flap, I stepped from hiding. Something vague as mist held back in shadow. The lines of a white-clad figure etched themselves against the cave wall. It floated out, paused, moved forward. Then I remember clutching at the wolfskin like one clinching a death-grip of reality, praying God not to let go a soul's anchor-hold of reason.
She threw up her arms, clinching her little white hands and stamping as slender a foot as ever walked in a machine-made shoe, and then, ejaculating, as women will, in moments of supreme exasperation, "If I were only a man!" whirled about and beheld one. "In your present mood," said Mr.
The last words were uttered with the air of one who produces a clinching argument. What effect it had on the questioner was not evident, for he made no reply, and turned away from her. Drawing closer to Lyndall's feet, he said after a while in a low voice: "Lyndall, has it never seemed to you that the stones were talking with you?
There he seated himself on the side of his neat bed which he always made himself camp fashion, the blankets folded lengthwise with just room for one quiet sleeper to crawl inside; and there he sat, opening and clinching his hands, a deep perplexity upon his features. Aunt Polly called to him and began to read the riot act, but Leander said: "Let him be! He gits tired o' being fussed over.
The Tascherons had expected to leave before that fatal day; but the proposed purchaser of their property was a stranger in those parts, and was prevented from clinching the bargain by a delay in obtaining the money. Thus the hapless family were forced to bear their trouble to its end.
"She told me the same," put in Foma, gloomily. "She told you?" Ookhtishchev asked and became thoughtful. "Now, I'll tell you, shouldn't we perhaps go and have supper?" "Let's go," Foma assented. And he suddenly roared obdurately, clinching his fists and waving them in the air: "Well, let us go, and I'll get wound up; I'll break loose, after all this, so you can't hold me back!" "What for?
Neither was it the fault of those same artists that they were quoted in and out of season, and always for the purpose of clinching an obnoxious point. "It isn't," he said, as quietly as he was able. Then the boyishness pent up within him came bursting out once more. "Listen, mother," he said impetuously. "Really, this thing has got to be talked out between us to the very dregs.
He was as much one of them as Lafe's baby or herself. Neither did she speak of the boy's pitiful condition. In spite of Jinnie's absolute refusal, Molly went on: "But you don't understand. You've got your own life to think of!" Jinnie burst in with what she thought was a clinching triumph. "I take lessons on my fiddle every day. Some time I hope " Molly's eyes gleamed again.
"Why, first of all, this," said Myles, clinching his fists, as he had a habit of doing when anything stirred him deeply, "that we set those vile bachelors to their right place; and that is, that they be no longer our masters, but our fellows." Gascoyne shook his head. He hated clashing and conflict above all things, and was for peace. Why should they thus rush to thrust themselves into trouble?
Another moment and Lieutenant Blakely, in the front room of his quarters, looking pale and strange, was being pounced upon with eager questioning by Duane, his junior, when the wooden steps and veranda creaked under a quick, heavy, ominous tread, and, with livid face and clinching hands, the troop commander came striding in. "Mr.
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