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Rick waved his hands futilely at the whining swarm and muttered unhappily, "There are so many they have to line up for a bite." "I know," Scotty replied in a whisper. "I wonder if they bite ghosts?" "We'll soon see. It's a few minutes to nine." In spite of the insects, the boys concentrated on the catch basin, alert for any sign of the ghost.
A flip, and the riata curled in a half-hitch over Solano's nose; and Jack was edging slowly towards him, his hands moving along the taut riata like a sailor climbing a rope. Solano backed, shook his head futilely, snorted, and rolled his eyes mere frills of resentment that formed no real opposition to Jack's purpose.
Sometimes epithets are brighter than their object; the unimaginative thus futilely striving to impart power instead of deriving it. To be lasting, the light of the epithet must be struck by the imagination out of its object. The inspired poet finds a word so sympathetic with the thought that it caresses and hugs it. Depth and breadth of nature are implied in the full poetic imagination.
To compare this embarkation with that on a foreign liner; I have seen the whole business of taking passengers and luggage on board an Italian liner stopped for minutes by one Egyptian with a tin of milk on the gangway, holding forth on his grievances to the world at large, whilst handsome officers on deck smiled futilely, their white-gloved hands behind their backs.
She struggled futilely in his plowman arms. "Say you love me!" "If you don't let me go I shall hate you!" "I see I shall have to kiss you until you do love me." "Yes yes whatever you wish me to say," she cried, suddenly freeing herself by dodging most undignifiedly out of his arms. She stood a little way from him, panting, as was he.
All her tender lures, inherent and acquired, had shattered themselves futilely against the reserve he had set between them. Why had he offered her that kiss on board The Tigress? Perhaps that had been his hour of disenchantment. She hadn't measured up; she had been stupid; she hadn't known how to make love. Loneliness.
And after dessert the two ladies asked permission to retire. They lay long awake afterwards, debating in whispers what terror might be in store for them. Mrs. Warren cried a good deal and lamented futilely her indolent languor of a few days previously.
The somber, thick-set pines seemed to be implacably in the same place, no matter how she tried to pass them, to leave them behind, to hurry on. Everything else in the silent, breathless, midsummer forest was rooted immovably deep in the earth. She alone was killing herself with haste, and yet futilely . . . not able to get forward, not able to . . .
In fact he met the brute midway in its charge, striking its huge body with his closed fists and as futilely as he had been a fly attacking an elephant. But in one hand he still clutched the knife he had found in the cabin of his father, and as the brute, striking and biting, closed upon him the boy accidentally turned the point toward the hairy breast.
At this Roadmaster laughed, and said that his fancy was not sea-ward yet, though that might come; and then, with a courteous wave of his hand, he jumped on his horse and rode away. The Osgoods speculated curiously and futilely on Roadmaster's identity, as indeed the whole colony had done.
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