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One convulsive touch of its rocky claws on the hidden currents coursing in earth's veins and an evil spark fired the fatal mine under the battleship Maine, in the harbor of Havana. "Is this possible; can this be true?"
I turned from his marked, iron countenance to Raymond, whose face, veiled by a smile, would not betray his care; yet his lips quivered somewhat, and his hand clasped the bench on which he sat, with a convulsive strength that made the muscles start again. Ryland began by praising the present state of the British empire.
The strength of Hercules could not long have buoyed up the under body of such a load, sufficiently to raise the nostrils for breath; and the convulsive twitches of Drewett's arms were near strangling me. I must throw him off, or drown. Abandoning the attempt to swim, I seized his hands with mine, and endeavoured to loosen his grasp of my neck.
Every one's eyes rested upon him, that is, all but Arnold's, which seemed holding some secret communion with the cupids on the ceiling, and the look of convulsive agony that swept across Ruth's face was unnoticed.
He went back to his wife and knelt down on her tapestried cushion. "Cornelia, how are you?" "In God's hands," whispered the lady, raising her glorious eyes. "God chastises and is merciful as it seemeth Him good." Her convulsive pressure showed Vértessy what she must be suffering. "There is mercy with God," faintly murmured the lady once more. Vértessy felt his heart tremble at these words.
The Frenchman kept one hand on his poniard, and thought to watch his chance to plunge it into the belly of the too confiding animal; but he was fearful lest he might be strangled in her last convulsive struggles; beside this, he felt in his heart a sort of remorse which bade him respect this hitherto inoffensive creature that had done him no hurt.
He tells you that, with all its mysterious horror, it is but the shadow of what he bears on his own breast, and that even this, his own red stigma, is no more than the type of what has seared his inmost heart! Stand any here that question God's judgment on a sinner? Behold! Behold a dreadful witness of it!" With a convulsive motion, he tore away the ministerial band from his breast.
One night we went to the opera to hear a celebrated prima donna. When we returned home Miriam and I were sitting in her room, chatting over the events of the evening. "Suddenly she sat straight up with a sort of convulsive shudder, and at the same time you may laugh if you like the most horrible feeling came over me.
Still, during this assumed calmness, the dear girl, every now and then, could not help uttering a short convulsive sob, that indicated at once her physical debility and extraordinary grief. She was evidently incapable of entering into conversation, or at least, averse to it, and was consequently very silent during the whole morning.
Twitch! and with a quick convulsive effort she sheers aside, and her enemy sprawls on. But the second dog is ready to meet her, and she must swirl round again. The two serpentine savages gather themselves together and launch out in wild efforts to reach her; they are upon her she must dart round again, and does so under the very feet of the baffled dogs.
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