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A delightful odor subtly sweet, and yet not faint, began to freshen the already perfumed air, and Sah-luma, flinging himself again on his couch, motioned Theos to take a similar resting-place opposite.
Sometimes he would burst into a room and ransack a desk, flinging all the papers higgledy-piggledy on to the floor, and flying into a frenzy because he could not find what he was looking for, or because some one offered to help him. Then he would stand stock still in the middle of it all, and when they asked him what he was looking for, he did not know himself.
She saw herself pleading with Edward, breaking down his resistance, winning her cause, and then, instead of triumphing, flinging herself into his arms, to ask pardon for daring to fight him. The happy tears blinded her, and fell unheeded until a mocking reaction dried them. "Oh, what a fool! what a fool!"
The Emigrant looked down on this poor creature at whom he had flung scores of stones, but never a kind word. And the idiot ran on: "Dicky, eh?" tapping his chest. "You know Dicky. Pete Pete, eh?" and he made the gesture of one flinging a stone. "Often, ha, ha! So high." He spread his hand, palm downward, about five feet from the ground. "Well I'm blest!" said the Emigrant softly.
A light breeze stirred the tender green grass, shaking down a shower of pink almond bloom as it swept fan-like through the luminous air, a skylark half lost in the brilliant blue, began to descend earthwards, flinging out a sparkling fountain of music with every quiver of his jewel- like wings, and away in the sheltered shade of a small hazel copse, the faint fluty notes of a nightingale trembled with a mysterious sweetness suggestive of evening, when the song should be full.
Molly-coddling a man in this way!" "I don't see much use in wearing a scarf if you tuck it down beneath your coat," said Carrissima. "Who wants to wear one?" he demanded, pulling it off and flinging it on to the hall table. "I won't wear it. I won't be bothered and interfered with!"
They kill and pound it up to make it good, and soon they eat in honour of the genelmen and ladies who have been so kind this naice trip." "I should like to kill them!" gasped Monny, preparing to cry, and flinging herself into Biddy's arms. "Oh somebody give me a hanky quick!" We all felt mechanically in our pockets; but I, being nearest, was first in the field.
Do you mean to tell me that you have not guessed the riddle?" She turned her delicate head aside and switched the grasses with her riding-crop. "Well," flinging aside his cap, which he had been holding in his hand, "I will tell you. I wanted to be near you. I wanted to be, what you made me, your servant. It is the one great happiness that I have known.
And then the step-dame added, "There now, just run up, fetch your prayer-book down, and read a little to us all to do us good." The fair, affectionate girl, unused to the accents of kindness, could not forbear flinging her arms round Mary Acton's neck, and loving her, as Ruth loved Naomi.
"Well," she began, when he came near enough to hear her, "have you decided to take me with you?" "No." "Then you are going to take the lady?" "No." "Not? Then who is going with you?" "These two pistols," replied the count, flinging back his cloak and revealing the weapons thrust into his pocket.
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