United States or Armenia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Usually there is an excellent tonga service, and the distance is covered in about six hours; but while the Field Force was mobilised so much traffic and so many officers passed up and down the line, that the tonga ponies were soon reduced to a terrible condition of sores and emaciation, and could hardly drag the journey out in nine, ten, or even twelve hours.
She was not deformed, but she surely was deficient physically. She was thin to emaciation, she had fiery red hair, and Roger always declared "her eyes and eyebrows were just as red as her hair." The recitation chosen for her was "Guilty or Not Guilty?" and it seemed to suit her strangely.
"It does bring it all back," he said. He sat down in a deep chair and leaned his head against the back, closing his eyes. Jan saw that he was thin to emaciation, and that he looked very ill; shabby, too, and broken. The instinct of the nurse that exists in any woman worth her salt was roused in Jan.
Looking round, he saw a Ritualist priest, in cassock and cloak, disputing in hurried undertones with the men about the door. At last he gained his point apparently, for the men, with half-angry, half-quizzing looks at each other, allowed him to come in, and he found a seat. Flaxman was greatly struck by the face by its ascetic beauty, the stern and yet delicate whiteness and emaciation of it.
Diana's hand was in Miss Vincent's, and the girl's face was full of joy; Marion Vincent, deathly white, her eyes, more amazing, more alive than ever, amid the emaciation that surrounded them, greeted the party with smiling composure neither embarrassed, nor apologetic appealing to Frobisher now and then as to her travelling companion speaking of "our week at Orvieto" making, in fact, no secret of an arrangement which presently every member of the group about her even Sir James Chide accepted as simply as it was offered to them.
No wonder! She had had to hunt up a housemaid to make up a bed for Lovedy in a little room within her own, and the undressing and bathing of the poor child had revealed injuries even in a more painful state than those which had been shown to Mr. Grey, shocking emaciation, and most scanty garments. The child was almost torpid, and spoke very little.
"Helen!" exclaimed he; "Helen, awake! Speak to thy friend!" Still she was motionless. "Dead!" cried he, with increased emotion. His eye and his heart in a moment discerned and understood the rapid emaciation of those lovely features now fearing the worst; "Gone so soon!" repeated he, "gone to tell my Marion that her Wallace comes.
She was sitting with her eyes cast down, and a look of sorrow on her pale, thin face I had not before re-marked the signs of emaciation that touched me deeply. "Polly," said I, with as much kindness of tone as I could express, "it is the lot of all to have trouble, and each heart knows its own bitterness. But on some the trouble falls with a weight that seems impossible to be borne.
She held Isabel's hand very tightly, though its terrible emaciation shocked her anew, and so for a time they were silent while Isabel seemed to drift back again into the limitless spaces out of which Dinah's coming had for a moment called her. It was Biddy who broke the silence at last, laying a gnarled and quivering hand upon Dinah as she sat.
Crockett, on his pallet in the log cabin, with unglazed window and earthern floor, was a far less unhappy man, than the dying monarch surrounded with regal splendors. At the end of a fortnight the patient began slowly to mend. His emaciation was extreme, and his recovery very gradual. After a few weeks he was able to travel.
Word Of The Day