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Three or four courtesans, with gowns and tunics torn from their white shoulders, were being dragged along, half laughing, half resisting, and wholly possessed by Bacchic frenzy. In front of the company marched a slender youth with dark, curling hair and delicate features. In his hand was a thyrsis, and his eyes blazed with the madness of the wine. "Evoe! evoe!" he shouted. "Comrades!
I again spoke to the captain, but he was too far gone to reason with: he had got drunk to die, because he was afraid to die sober no unusual case with sailors. "Don't tell me; damn me, who is afeard to die? I ain't. I swore she should never enter a British port, and I have kept my word." He then began to use curses and execrations; and at last fell on the deck in a fit of drunken frenzy.
Then, she remembered, she had smiled and bowed absently to the men and women in the patio on the way back to her room, where she flung herself down upon the couch in a frenzy, burying her face in the cushions; her frame shaking with passionate, convulsive sobs as she writhed in paroxysms of untold grief and pain. He had refused her, dared to refuse her her! She had failed!
When his host came into the room he pulled himself to his full five feet five and his thin white face went even whiter. Andrew, in his frenzy, cursed him and God and the world, and, in the old Berserk rage, dashed over the heavy table on which Aunt Janet had set a poor meal for the stranger.
And in this we shall only do what other nations have done, and esteemed themselves wise in doing. The Greeks and Romans, except in periods of ambitious frenzy, recognized the fruitlessness and folly of fighting absolute savages, and did not scruple, in the height of their conquering pride, to keep the peace with Scythians and Parthians as best they could.
The Englishmen instantly took possession of the wreck, whose deck was strewn with the dead and wounded. The latter were raised and cared for. "Don't touch me!" shrieked Skyrme in a frenzy of rage, and seizing a sabre in each hand he began a desperate struggle.
My poor ancestor who had never quitted London stood before me with his dying regrets; and my first resolution was to live in open communion with my kind. So intense, indeed, did my anxiety to execute this purpose become that it might have led even to frenzy had not a fortunate circumstance interposed to save me from so dire a calamity.
When at last he had breathed his last, and there arose a universal lamentation in the house, Vassily Ivanovitch was seized by a sudden frenzy.
"I've no objection," said J. B., grinning as if the frenzy of balloonaticking had already got into his blood. "Right! that's settled. I'll see your mechanicians about fitting your machines for rockets. You can begin practice this afternoon." Percy had been listening with interest to the conversation. "You got some nice job, you boys.
Then I caught a rapid view of the thing as it burst through a shaft of moonlight piercing the glade, and it showed as a man, a grotesque figure of a man in loose white pantaloons. He was frightened, horribly frightened, all hunched up with the frenzy to escape. An indistinct bundle was on his right shoulder.
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