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Well, as I was a-saying, I want to know what the jam-jorum said." Corkey is terrified. He does not fear that he will go down in Georgian Bay. He dreads to hear the bursting of the bladders that are supporting him in his sea of glory. Lockwin starts as from a waking dream: "I beg your pardon, Mr.
She arrives at a point in life when she no longer has passion, desire, or even curiosity; she detests life, and dreads death because she does not know that there is another world.
Certain words in this speech were obnoxious to the fine ear of Lady Racial, and she relinquished the subject. 'Your husband, Mrs. Harrington I should so much have wished! he did not pass away in in pain! 'He died very calmly, my lady. 'It is so terrible, so disfiguring, sometimes. One dreads to see! one can hardly distinguish! I have known cases where death was dreadful!
'Oh! if that were all; if these gentlemen would only drink; but their conversation! I don't wonder my mother dreads returning to Clonbrony Castle, if my father must have such company as this. But, surely, it cannot be necessary. 'Oh, indispensable! Positively indispensable! cried Lady Dashfort; 'no living in Ireland without it.
I wish you had shown some reluctance to see my meaning, that you had preferred to waive the matter on the ground of insufficient data, that you had been less eager to ferret out the science of the thing. Do you remember how your boy's respect rose for little Barbara whenever she cried when too readily forgiven? "She dreads a double standard," you explained to me with generous heat.
Like his prototype, he dreads the growth and power of the woman's offspring. Under pagan Rome's persecutions, "the more God's people were afflicted, the more they multiplied and grew." Now the adversary shapes his policy accordingly. "Come on, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply."
He was capable of so subduing his constitutionally high-strung temperament, at times, that temporarily he became immune from human dreads. On such occasions he would be icily cool amid universal panic; but, his object accomplished, I have seen him in such a state of collapse, that utter nervous exhaustion is the only term by which I can describe it.
Much has been said and written about the effect produced upon men by the sight of a lady in, or on the border line of tears, and there is no doubt that this effect is considerable. Man being in his right mind is deeply moved by such a spectacle, also he is frightened because he dreads a scene.
"What is it, you small ignoramus! It's a blacksnake and a monster. It is one of the dreads of the small life of the wood, and it was one of the dreads of my youth, and its days are numbered." He reached for his gun, then checked himself. "Shoot it." She picked up the little rifle and raised it to her shoulder, as calmly as any Leather-Stocking in the land.
"How he dreads it, poor dear," she was thinking, as he strode into the living-room, "meeting Sally and all his old friends." She frowned. "Heaven knows I dread it myself. What am I going to say to them all? And suppose they don't care for me in the least? . . . Well, it will soon be over." Presently Joe popped in at the door: "Look here! If you're not dressed enough "
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