United States or Sudan ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !


This melancholy procession moved silently onwards, like a procession of phantoms, and the ear was only made aware of it when now and then a low groan broke from one of the victims. The sandy path, trodden by their naked feet, gave no sound, the mountains seemed to withhold their shade, the light of clay was a torment every thing far and near seemed inimical to the living.

But what them hours of frenzied effert could not accomplish, that one still, small groan did. I love that man. I almost worship him, and he me, vise versey, and the same. We found that Ardelia Tutt had been to see us in our absence. She had been into our room I see, for she had dropped one of her mits there.

"I guess it won't do much lumberin', so that trade is done for. I s'pose there's things left-handed fellers can do, and I must learn 'em as soon as possible, since my fightin' days are over," and Joe looked at his one arm with a sigh that was almost a groan, helplessness is such a trial to a manly man, and he was eminently so. "What can I do to comfort you most, Joe?

"Poor Beelzebub!" softly said Isabelle, who had been roused from her sweet slumber by his dying groan, "he has lived through all the misery of the old time, but will not be here to share and enjoy the prosperity of the new."

"Couldn't be better," he replied with a groan. "The doctor said he'd never had a more satisfactory case in all his experience." "Oh, I'm glad to hear that," I answered; "I was afraid you'd been worrying yourself." "Worried!" he exclaimed. "This is the first morsel of food that's passed my lips for twenty-four hours." At this moment the nurse appeared at the top of the stairs.

Then, when his eye could no longer follow her form, the agony of his soul burst forth in a single groan, and staggering, he fell forward upon the sward, hopeless, reckless, in a wretched condition of self-abandonment and despair. But this mood lasted not long. Youth, pride, anger, asserted themselves before the lapse of many minutes. Darker feelings got possession of his mind. He rose to his feet.

You will have to face the full consequences of your crime." Carleton Roberts' arms collapsed and his face fell forward upon them, and they heard a groan. Then in the short silence which followed, another and a very different sound broke upon their ears. Seven clear calls from the cuckoo-clock rang out from the room beyond, followed by a woman's smothered cry.

She let go with one hand. There was a shriek, a groan, a shower of rocks descended as Joy slipped down that steep wall. For Bet, everything went black. She grew faint and closed her eyes, then suddenly pulled herself together, and looked over. The rope was taut. It had held. A second shower of rocks came from the trail, started by the sudden jerk on the saddle.

How large a proportion of mothers and guardians exercise anything which can be called watchful care as to what books and papers the children shall read; and yet the booksellers' shelves groan under the weight of the most dissipating, weakening, and insidious books that can possibly be imagined; and newspapers which ought never to enter any decent house, lie on the tables of many a family sitting-room.

I do not wish to be too hard on him, poor creature! and I fancy his right place is in the asylum rather than on the scaffold. He used to shout and groan all night long; and the letters he wrote her were so stupid that she used to smile as she read them and then put them in her pocket without answering them.