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Slim's taunting, devilish face, corpse-like in its pallor above his black beard, was all Bruce saw as he sprang for his throat. He backed him against the door and held him there. "You miserable dog I ought to kill you!" The words came from between his set teeth. He drew back his hand and slapped him first on the right cheek, then on the left.
Did he see the fifteen francs at all, half trance-like, half corpse-like, as he stood, waiting for the third revolution, and waiting again, and again, and again? His five francs have grown to be a hundred; his cold hand falls freezingly upon them; five francs replace the hundred he took away "Whizz!" goes the ball; "click!" stops the ball; the coupeur seizes Mr. Risque's five francs, and Mr.
It chased back to midnight the doubt hovering over his belief in himself; phrased to say, that he was no longer the Victor Radnor known to the world. And it extinguished a corpse-like recollection of a baleful dream in the night.
If it's going to be continued in our next, there had better be a bit of an interval for alterations and repairs first." "Is he hurt much, do you think?" asked Mike. He had seen knock-outs before in the ring, but this was the first time he had ever effected one on his own account, and Adair looked unpleasantly corpse-like. "He's all right," said Psmith.
'No, said Dorothy; 'it is the money that makes her position so difficult, unless you break the ice. I urged that having steadily refused her before, I could hardly advance without some invitation now. 'What invitation? said my aunt. 'Not a corpse-like consent, said I. 'Harry, she twitted me, 'you have not forgiven her. That was true.
"Excuse me," said John Vansittart Smith, with all imaginable politeness; "I have been unfortunate enough to fall asleep behind this door." "And you have been watching me?" the other asked in English, with a most venomous look on his corpse-like face. The student was a man of veracity.
The blood in her veins was too strong a tide for her to crouch in that imagined corpse-like universe which alternates with an irradiated Eden in the brain of the passionate young. "Why should I lose him!" The dry sob choked her. She struggled with the emotion in her throat, and Mr. Pole, who had previously dreaded supplication and appeals for pity, caressed her. Instantly the flood poured out.
But the pallid corpse-like face, the blue-black beard, the wild-beast look, in the eyes of the Marshal de Retz, ambassador of the King of France, were now more than ever heightened in effect by the studied suavity of his demeanour and the graciousness of language with which he was clothing what he had to say. "I have brought you together after taking counsel with my good Lord of Avondale.
Nor did he venture again to look up as the cause of all his distress was slowly carried into the hall, corpse-like indeed. The bearers had changed several times, all but a tall, fair Norman youth, who through the whole transit had supported the head, endeavouring to guard it from shocks. When the mother and the rest came forward, he made a gesture to conceal the face, saying in French, 'Ah!
And you only call a thing a corpse because it looks corpse-like." "Whether it is one or not?" she argued. "It isn't one to me. A dead flower isn't a corpse of a flower." Clara now ignored him. "And even so what right have you to pull them?" she asked. "Because I like them, and want them and there's plenty of them." "And that is sufficient?" "Yes. Why not?
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