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He might hear some word to help explain his father's strange, significant intimations about Anderson. "...must have money," Glidden was saying. To Kurt's eyes treachery gleamed in that working face. Neuman bent over to whisper gruffly in Dorn's ear. One of the silent men standing rubbed his hands together. Old Dorn's head was bowed.
He was altogether greyer than when last I had seen him greyer and sterner. "Where is Eltham?" I asked. Smith started back as though I had struck him. "Eltham!" he whispered "Eltham! is Eltham here?" "I left him ten minutes ago on the common." Smith dashed his right fist into the palm of his left hand, and his eyes gleamed almost wildly.
You'd better go now before I have you kicked out." Dick's shoulders jerked with a swift tightening of the muscles. His eyes gleamed with a fierce light though his smile remained. "I'll lay you even odds," he said, "that if you want that done, you'll have to do it yourself." "I'm equal to it!" flashed the squire. "You'd better not try me too far!"
These were the earliest forms in which that subtle, all-pervading force revealed itself to men. In the childhood of the race men stood dumb in the presence of its more terrible manifestations. When it gleamed in the purple aurora, or shot dusky-red from the clouds, it was the eye-flash of an angry God before whom mortals quailed in helpless fear."
'Never mind, said Mary Matchwell, to herself, and, getting swiftly into the coach, she gleamed another ugly smile up at the window of The Mills, as she adjusted her black attire. 'To the Prerogative Court, said the attorney to the coachman.
The earth rose and fell in front of her excited gaze; the sun was going down; and the road ahead seemed endless, without a turning as far as she could see. A great burying-ground stretched for what seemed like miles along one side of the road. The polished marble gleamed red and bleak in the setting sun. The sky had suddenly gone lead-color, and there was a chill in the air.
Her beautiful light a mingling of jale and white gleamed softly through the darkness. She sat erect, on crossed legs, asleep. She was clothed in a singular skin garment, which started as a cloak thrown over one shoulder, and ended as loose breeches terminating above the knees. Her forearms were lightly folded, and in one hand she held a half-eaten fruit.
The shadow rose and climbed up the Acropolis, on which the shield of Pallas still gleamed as the aegis of the city. Before the vari-coloured colonnade stood a group of men who had assembled before the semi-circular marble seat called the Hemicyklion; they appeared to be awaiting someone's arrival before they sat down.
On entering the court, the flambeaux which were borne around the carriage gleamed on the scarlet coats, laced hats, and drawn broadswords of the Horse Guards a sight unusual, and calculated to strike terror into a conscience which was none of the clearest.
Neither the lieutenant's present embarrassment nor his previous hesitation escaped Durrance's notice. "We met at Broad Place," said he. "I wish you to give me news of my friend Feversham. Why was his engagement with Miss Eustace broken off? Where is he now?" The lieutenant's eyes gleamed for a moment with satisfaction.
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