United States or Estonia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Well," said Hervey, "then she come right out and told me the truth: she's in love with Perris. She told me so herself!" They gaped at him. They were young enough, most of them, and lonely and romantic enough, to have looked on Marianne with a sort of sad longing which their sense of humor kept from being anything more aspiring.
He stared with surprise, glowed with indignation, gaped with curiosity, smiled with pleasure, trembled with fear, and wept with sorrow, as the vicissitudes of my life inspired these different passions; and, when my story was ended, signified his amazement on the whole, by lifting up his eyes and hands and protesting that, though I was a young man, had suffered more than all the blessed martyrs.
The boy leaped wildly for the door, but the old man caught him and with one hand held him as though he were a child, and thus the two astonished detectives from the Blue-grass found them, and they gaped at the mystery, for they knew the kinship of the two. One pulled from his pocket a pair of handcuffs, and old Jason glared at him with contempt.
You came at me with your knife, and I shot you with my stun-pistol. It's all over. Right?" Thal gaped at him. Then he beamed. He expanded. He gloated. He frisked. He practically wagged a nonexistent tail in his exuberance. He'd been shown an out when he could see none. "Send in the others one by one," said Hoddan. "I'll take care of them. But Thal why did the Lady Fani want me killed?"
In a way he was sorry for Yasmini; but it was the squadron and Colonel Kirby that drew his heart-strings. Swaying to and fro, from the waist upward, Yasmini began to play her little instrument. The echoing vault became a solid sea of throbbing noise, and as she played she increased her speed of movement, until the German sat and gaped. He had seen her dance on many more than one occasion.
I saw no sign of them in any direction. It was as if the platform had gaped and swallowed them. "There were two gentlemen standing here a moment ago," I said to a porter at my elbow; "which way can they have gone?" "I saw no gentlemen, sir," replied the man. The whistle shrilled out again. The guard, far up the platform, held up his arm, and shouted to me to "Come on!"
There would be amusement. The little men hitched their kukris well to hand, and gaped expectantly at their officers as terriers grin ere the stone is cast for them to fetch. The Goorkhas' ground sloped downward to the valley, and they enjoyed a fair view of the proceedings.
It turned, it gaped, it lost itself and showed again in that chaos of a million cliffs. And then farther on it became again a cleft, a purple line, at last to fail entirely in deceiving distance. Shefford imagined there was no scene in all the world to equal that. The tranquillity of lesser spaces was not here manifest. Sound, movement, life, seemed to have no fitness here.
The Gothic archway gaped wide to the spring sunshine. Olga came swiftly to it, and there stood suddenly still. "Nick!" she said. "Nick!" Her voice was vibrant, her eyes widely staring into the gloom within. He slipped his arm about her, that wiry arm of great strength that had served her so often. "I am here, darling," he said soothingly. Olga turned to him in piteous appeal.
The yellow jaw gaped, filled with blood, and the poised knife fell at his side, sticking point down in the flooring. The azure and lemon-yellow that covered the woman's body flamed into sudden scarlet. It was only as the figure with the expostulating yellow face sank to the ground, crumpling up on itself as it fell, that Blake comprehended.
Word Of The Day