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"I'll do more than talk." He clenched his fists and paced boldly up and down the hearthrug. "You leave things to me," said Mr. Kybird, with a confidential wink. "I'll see that it's all right. All I ask of you is to keep it a dead secret; even your mother mustn't know." "I'll be as secret as the grave," said the overjoyed Mr. Silk. "There's lots o' things to be taken into consideration," said Mr.
It was some time before he could collect his thoughts to any purpose; but when he did, he clinched his fists as he recalled Caesar's malignant cruelty in forcing him away from his family. Presently his large mouth widened into a satisfied smile. He was no longer in that company, and need take no part in the horrid butchery.
"Excepting our worthy friends and allies on this vessel, any dog who dares maintain that James is not the best of men I will beat him till the blood comes, and cut him in quarters," said this robust personage, striking with one of his fists the gunwale of the ship. Then, addressing De Chemerant: "But now you know him as well as we you, the chosen you, the happy man who saw him first!
The snarl was in his voice again. "You come across with those sparklers, and you come across quick!" But now Smarlinghue was like a crazed and demented creature, and he shook his fists at the Wolf. "I won't! I won't!" he screamed. "You went there to do the same thing! I had as much right as you! And I got them I got them!
Simon, and "No, Sir," to Madam, which was as often as I addressed them; I clenched little fists and lips resolutely, that they might not touch, taste, handle, tempting bijouterie; I even held in check the spirit of inquiry rampant within me, and indulged myself with only one question to every three minutes of time.
I saw that his eyes gave one fiery look, while he clenched his fists as though to strike the man as he sat, but then he restrained himself. Yet, had I been Hall, I would not have faced such another glance for all that adventure had given me. It was a look which meant ill all the ill that one man could mean to another.
If Kuprin's story be true, one does not need to look far for the utter failure of the Russian troops in the Japanese war; the soldiers are here represented as densely ignorant, drilling in abject terror of their officers' fists and boots, and knowing nothing whatever of true formations in attack or defence.
Indignation choked the words in his throat and he was able only to bellow, while he pounded the pulpit with his fists. This had the desired effect, however, for the old woman, though still grumbling, dropped her clog and, crossing herself repeatedly, fell devoutly upon her knees. "Aaah! Aaah!" the indignant priest was at last able to roar out as he crossed his arms and shook his head.
Will she come, or shall we have to get possession of her by force tomorrow?" "I hope she will come of her own word," said the other. "These fishermen are so brave, and have such hard fists." "And I hope she will not," said the first, laughing. "We must take her by force. I should relish just such a row. If they have hard fists, we have sharp, glittering weapons.
There was a swift, passionate blow, a crash among the overturned chairs, and Mooney, dazed and trembling, gazed up from the floor at the rigid, erect figure towering threateningly above him, with squared shoulders and clenched fists. "Utter another word like that, you cur," said Winston, sternly, "and I 'll break your head. Don't you dare doubt that I 'll keep my word."
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