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As she said it she had a slight shock of cowering under eyes tolerably hawkish in their male glitter; but her coolness was not disturbed; and without any apprehensions she reflected on what has been written of the silly division and war of the sexes: which two might surely enter on an engagement to live together amiably, unvexed by that barbarous old fowl and falcon interlude.
At this height of my tree I begin to see, cowering among the leaves it may be born of turkey, or of pudding, or mince pie, or of these many fancies, jumbled with Robinson Crusoe on his desert island, Philip Quarll among the monkeys, Sandford and Merton with Mr.
Yet all who are affected with nerve troubles are not necessarily suffering from polyneuritis. Some one here has been dilettanting with death. It is of no use," he thundered, turning suddenly on a cowering figure. "You stood to win most, with the money and your unholy love. But Miss Hackstaff, cast off, has proved your Nemesis.
From the broken mattress on the bed, he dug out a coil of wire and bound her hands and feet with it. "Can't say I think much of your choice of companions these days," he commented, looking toward the bed where O'Neill was cowering. "It looks as if your grandfather picks them better for you." "You filthy-minded hog!
Suddenly he perceived that he no longer hit any thing and the dragon had escaped, so he stood cowering, like a person who does not know from whence the next blow will come. The dragon again aimed straight at the Poor Boy's head, and as he hacked, struck off his right ear. "I'll pay you for that," shouted the youth, rushing upon him again.
I saw that, when the alien life on which I flourished was gone out of me, I was a worn old man that the Fire of Life which usually burned in my body, making me look bright and young, was now none of it my own; a few hot ashes only were mine, which Death sat cowering by!
Campbell, amused at Peace's version of the occurrence, for the child had been so angry at the destruction of the letter from this beloved friend that she had seized a heavy club and rushed at the cowering pup as if bent on crushing its skull.
They signaled the car to stop, and his blood curdled, but, in the same instant, they saw the chauffeur's face; the other occupant was cowering as far back in the shadow as possible. "Oh, it's Dr. Stern," said one. "Right, Tom. By the way, have you seen anything of " "Go on, do!" growled Fenley, drowning the man's voice. "I'm in a vile hurry."
She simply CLOUDED UP, if I may so express the effect that came and remained upon her countenance, which was now the countenance she had shown me the first evening I saw her, when I saw the Deerings cowering in its shadow.
While the mob of Constables kept cowering in the bar-room down-stairs, crying out to us to surrender in the King's name, I believe that one poor creature, the Justice of Peace, after getting himself well walled up in a corner with chairs and tables, began to quaver out the King's Proclamation against the Blacks, the plaguy Soldiers came blundering up both pair of stairs, and fell upon us Billy Boys tooth and nail.
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