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Acton and Violet Hamilton sat upon the seat which ran along the back of it. The girl started when she saw him, and Nasmyth stood looking down on her, worn in face and heavy-eyed, with his workman's garb clinging, tight and mire-stained, about his limbs. There was, however, a certain grimness in his smile.
And my lord, who had been moving to Bishop's assistance, stood instantly arrested. Chap-fallen, with much of his high colour suddenly departed, the Deputy-Governor was swaying on unsteady legs. Peter Blood considered him with a grimness that increased his panic. "I marvel that I don't pistol you without more ado, ye fat blackguard.
Avery's pretty mouth took an unfamiliar curve of grimness for a moment, but she banished it at once. She slipped a sustaining hand through Mrs. Lorimer's arm. "Thank you for saying so, though, you know, I've only been with you a fortnight, and I don't feel that I have done very much to deserve such high praise." "I don't think time has much to do with friendship," said Mrs.
He was an outlaw, and the police wanted him, but Peter was troubled by the grimness that settled in his master's face. They waited for dusk, and when deep shadows had gathered in the valley McKay led the way out of the rock-pile. An hour later they came cautiously through the darkness that lay between the broken shoulders of Cragg's Ridge.
The grey or black college walls had lost all the grimness of winter, they were there merely to bring out the blue of the sky, the yellow gold, the laburnum, the tossing white of the chestnuts. The figures, even, passing in the streets, seemed to glitter with the trees and the buildings.
With that thin, shaven face of his, and that look of an early Christian martyr in his eyes, and the dark clothes he wears, wherever he goes he's sure to be mistaken for a priest." "Yes," said John, with a kind of grimness; "that's what's extraordinary.
The old man fetched his breath in gasps, which presently smoothed and lengthened into his normal breathing. Beaton got him a glass of wine, and after tasting it he sat up. "You've got to excuse me," he said, getting back to his characteristic grimness with surprising suddenness, when once he began to recover himself.
His expression was decidedly uneasy, but there was a certain grimness about him that did not seem to indicate the probability of any excessive show of docility in face of a browbeating. "I don't say it," he said doggedly at length, "because, besides being rude, it wouldn't be strictly true."
And though Lincoln wisely held his peace warned all the States which hummed with wild secession talk that their aggression alone could disrupt the Union the wily Stanton, through the machinery of the War Department, prepared with quiet grimness for the coming struggle. Herbert Waters, after Broderick's death, returned to Windham's office.
He had spoken no syllable of gladness or affection triple dolt quadruple fool prize-winner among idiots! He had nothing to say he could say nothing. Nor was it the presence of a third person which prevented him. Perhaps, rather, something in Patsy's eye, and, though that he would not acknowledge, a lurking grimness in the smile about the wicks of Godfrey's mouth.
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