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On this same date came a secretary from the Tsung-li Yamen in person, accompanied by a trembling t'ingoh'ai, or card-bearer, frantically waving the white flag of truce. They must been very frightened, for never have I seen such convulsiveness.
"Now, take it and put it in," said Miss Lizzie. Lisa took her lunch and put it in. Her round, soap-scoured little cheeks had turned a mottled red. When she got back to her seat, Lisa's head went down on her arm on the desk, and presently even her yellow plaits shook with the convulsiveness of her sobs. It wasn't the loss of the sausage or the bread or the cheese.
He could stand now with one support, and this was his young godfather's right arm, to which he held tightly, but without any nervous convulsiveness he was too happy for that now during the prayers that entreated for his being safely gathered into the Ark, and the Gospel of admission into the Kingdom.
The abounding presence of numerous experimental motors to-day is so stimulating to the imagination, there are so many stimulated persons at work upon them, that it is difficult to believe the obvious impossibility of most of them their convulsiveness, clumsiness, and, in many cases, exasperating trail of stench will not be rapidly fined away.
The war itself, with the temper of society preceding it, can indeed be best described by that very word convulsiveness. During those three years in hospital, camp or field, I made over six hundred visits or tours, and went, as I estimate, counting all, among from eighty thousand to a hundred thousand of the wounded and sick, as sustainer of spirit and body in some degree, in time of need.
"It seemed so terrible to think of two people having to part like that," she said again. And presently she pleaded weariness to go to bed earlier than usual. "But don't you hurry, Isabel," said Jenny. "You and Theophil will not see each other for a long time again." "Sleep well," said Isabel, kissing her; and as she did so, she thought there was a curious convulsiveness in Jenny's embrace.
Either from physical exhaustion or for some worthier reason, the Egyptian cried over this miniature, as an affectionate girl might have cried over the portrait of her dead lover. For a time he was all tears and softness. His emotion had not the convulsiveness which, with men of his age, is apt to accompany the exhibition of much feeling.
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