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With the rapidity of lightening her cheek was suffused with blushes, and as instantaneously changed to a death-like pale. It was my habitual error to interpret every thing in my own favour; and the conviction that she was suffering emotions similar to my own was transport to me.
Do as you please about the police, only if you ever wish your master to recover from that death-like swoon, you will carry him at once to the house and apply restoratives." She turned away with her loftiest air of hauteur, and Miss Silver had always been haughty to the servants. More than one dark glance followed her now.
Her discolored eyes stared blindly, and her breathing became more frequent, and briefer, louder. "Se Se Se-Ser " she repeated without moving her lips. "Ser " "Dear mother!" The colonel strode forward, and all quivering in every fold of his coat, in every wrinkle of his face, not understanding how terrible he himself looked in his death-like whiteness, in his heroic, desperate firmness.
As he lay there his delicate features seemed more than death-like; they seemed dead! "Oh, mercy, do hurry!" pleaded Grace. "Let me help you pull," she asked, getting hold of Margaret's oar. The small boat was now over crowded, and it was with difficulty the girls managed to give the boy sufficient room. "Can't we call any one?" suggested Julia. "Not any one in sight now," replied Louise.
On the other side of her was a rock, and her body had become wedged between the two objects. It was a beautiful place and might have been a cave for a mermaid, but it held the little earth-princess in a death-like grasp. It is possible to be sick with fear and yet to be brave. Madge knew her danger. She saw that Tania's dress was caught fast. She would have to tug at it valiantly to get it away.
The nights I pass in these fearful regions are more dreadful than the days, for "night is the time for care, brooding o'er days misspent, when the pale spectre of despair comes to our lonely tent;" and often when I lay me down I fall into a dim and death-like trance, wakeful, yet "dreaming dreams no mortals had ever dared to dream before."
On this one he prevailed, by a few gold pieces, to furnish him with a medicine to produce a death-like sleep, which, by means of another, might be instantaneously removed.
Inside the room a death-like silence settled. In the distance they heard the sound of the canning machinery, a sound that was now a mockery. To Balt this last disaster was the culmination of a persecution so pitiless and unflagging that its very memory filled his simple mind with the fury of a goaded animal.
It concealed a small apartment in the turret. With a few blows of their axes it was broken open, and they rushed in. "Ah! a rare booty!" cried the foremost of the ruffians, while, with bloodthirsty curiosity, the others pressed round to see the new victim. There lay the little orphan with the golden hair; her eyes were closed and a death-like hue had overspread her beautiful features.
But let the ease be high-bred and silent as possible let it be the repose of the Transcendental the death-like silence of the Exclusive in the perfumed atmosphere of the Exquisite; then begins the danger of going to sleep desperate danger. In these high circles are to be found, apparently, the most sleepy of all animated beings.
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