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There is particularly the Rapha, an inextricable mass of clutching tentacles that one hacks to pieces only to multiply; and the Tzee, a darting creature that is never seen, so subtly and suddenly does it slay..." He gives us a gleam of description.
His coolness at once returned; he sat down, and was questioning the mother respecting the child's condition previous to this attack of illness, when Jeanne awoke, moaning loudly. She again complained of a terrible pain in the head. The pangs which were darting through her neck and shoulders had attained such intensity that her every movement wrung a sob from her.
Sampson, said Mannering, introducing him to his daughter, and darting at the same time a reproving glance at the damsel, notwithstanding he had himself some disposition to join her too obvious inclination to risibility; 'this gentleman, Julia, is to put my books in order when they arrive, and I expect to derive great advantage from his extensive learning.
They gathered in the eddy behind the conning-tower in great numbers, bumping up sociably against one another and darting up and down with each gentle movement of the water. And I realized that we were in the domain of the fishes. Jim brought the government chart, and Mr. Lake announced that we were heading directly for Sandy Hook and the open ocean.
So! now how would she describe the pain? Was it acute, darting, piercing? No? Dull, then! Would she call it grinding, boring, pressing? Ah! that was most interesting. And for other symptoms yes! yes! that naturally followed; he should have expected that. "In fact, Miss Blyth, you really are a magnificent case!" and the young doctor glowed with enthusiasm.
Smith, "I couldn't see that he said anything about you this morning." "Not this morning," said the attorney. "There will be more to follow. Wait until you see the next issue of the representative of a free and untrammeled press. He will serve up all his friends there. I saw him darting around like a hawk-eyed reporter this morning.
Below them Chris flashed suddenly into view, darting with a butterfly grace of movement to the rescue of her pet. Abruptly Mordaunt spoke. "I sometimes wonder if she is too young to be married." "What?" Max removed his cigarette and stared at him. "She is as old as I am!" Mordaunt looked back, faintly smiling. "Yes, I know. But well, that's no argument, is it?" "I suppose not.
In the frame of the doorway, quiescent as an odalisque and with the golden tinge of a sunflower lighting her darkness, Miriam Binswanger held the picture for a moment, her brother greeting her with bow and banter. "Well, little red-eyes!" "Izzy, what did I just tell you!" His sister flashed him a dark glance, reflexly her hand darting upward to her face. "You!" "Now, now, children!
And for what, for what, sir? For the neighbours to set fire to your father's house, and the little ones to " "Forbear, woman!" cried Adam, in a voice of thunder; "forbear! Heavens!" And he waved his hand as he spoke, with so unexpected a majesty that Madge was awed into sudden silence, and, darting a look of compassion at Sibyll, she hobbled from the room.
We walked about four hundred yards along a grassy road to the sea, where Mabelle and I paddled about in shallow water and amused ourselves by picking up coral, shells, and bêche-de-mer, and watching the blue and yellow fish darting in and out among the rocks, until at last we found a place in the coral which made a capital deep-water bath.
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