United States or Brunei ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
She was not delirious, there was sense in her words, but there was no coherency in them. "Listen to what I have to tell thee," she began. "Thou art no longer a young boy; thou must know all. I had a good friend.... She married a man whom she loved with all her heart, and she was happy with her husband.
"All gazed aghast on the delirious maiden, and many of her auditors gave more credence to her distempered speech than to the visible evidence before them. As she turned to depart, she looked round, and suddenly sank upon the body, with tears streaming from her eyes, and sobbed out, 'My brother!
Lightbody, as delirious as a young girl at the thought of her first ball, cried: "Paris, Vienna, Morocco two years around the world!" "On my honor!" Rapidly Lightbody, impatient for the celebration, put De Gollyer into his coat and armed him with his cane. "In half an hour, Jim. Get Budd, get Reggie Longworth, and, I say, get that little reprobate of a Smithy, will you?" "Yes, by George."
A violent attack of fever, made more serious and difficult to throw off by the overwrought condition of his nerves, kept Michael a helpless exile in the hands of the hospitable but somewhat ignorant Omdeh and the devoted Abdul. When the fever was at its height, Michael was very often delirious; in his ramblings he let the discreet Abdul see deep down into the secret hiding-places of his heart.
Reginald must be ill, or away from Liverpool, or something must have happened to him, or assuredly, they said, he would have been at his mother's side at the first breath of danger. Mrs Shuckleford only, as day passed day, and the prodigal never returned, shook her head and said to herself, it was a blessing no one knew the reason, not even the poor delirious sufferer herself.
He does not recount the brutalities, the devastations, the tortures resorted to against the refractory, the outrages to women, nor how these soldiers took turns from hour to hour to hinder their hosts from sleeping during entire weeks till these unfortunates, stupefied, delirious, signed an abjuration. The King saw only the result.
I was left alone with the woman of the songs, who apparently acted as the guardian of that worse than slaughterhouse. She was, as usual after such an orgie, rather a devil than a human being, drunk with an insensate frenzy, delirious with inhuman longings.
How in Heaven's name was he going to manage her? She looked very ill and must of course be delirious. That would have been alarming in any case, and this particular form of delirium was excruciatingly painful. "Yes, my husband where is he? I shall tell him how you've dared to insult me. I must go. This is your house I must leave it at once." Goring did not attempt to come near her.
Howard, Lumley relapsed into silence, not broken till he reached M . The best physician was sent for; and the next morning, as he had half foreseen and foretold, Lord Vargrave was delirious! NOUGHT under Heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man, and all his mind possess, As Beauty's love-bait.
When the whole of Germany was delirious with joy over her victory, at a time when the unquestioned triumph of her arms tended rather to reflect unearned glory upon every department of her social organisation, it required both courage and discernment to raise the warning voice and to apply the wet blanket. But Nietzsche did both, and with spirit, because his worst fears were aroused.
Word Of The Day