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She had been inciting her son all the time to undertake wonderful salvage work by annexing the heiress of Henry Allègre—the woman and the fortune. There must have been an amazed incredulity in my eyes, to which her own responded by an unflinching black brilliance which suddenly seemed to develop a scorching quality even to the point of making me feel extremely thirsty all of a sudden.
At this the sheik and his daughter exchange significant glances. Perhaps something of incredulity may be discovered in their expression. Evidently they have heard but little of the story before, and only know that the troubles of the woman they revere came through a Craig.
Your heels are frozen, man, and you'll lose them if you don't look sharp." "Frozen!" cried Hamilton, with a look of incredulity. "Ay, frozen; and it's lucky you told me. I've a place up in the woods here, which I call my winter camp, where we can get you put to rights. But step out; the longer we are about it the worse for you."
Burnham started to his feet, unable for the moment to speak. His face took on a sudden pallor, then a smile of incredulity settled on his lips. "You are wild," he said; "the child perished; we have abundant proof of it." "I say the child is not dead," persisted the old man; "I saw him yesterday." "Then, bring him to me. Bring him to me and I will believe you."
I was in an agony of mind over my baggage, or my luggage, or my perhaps it is well to shy around this terrible international question; but I remember that when I was a lad I was told that there was a whole nation that said luggage instead of baggage, and my boyish mind was filled at the time with incredulity and scorn.
He approached the bed of Vinicius, as if seeking protection in it still; for he had not time yet to think that that man, though he had used his services and was still his accomplice, condemned him, while those against whom he had acted forgave. This thought was to come to him later. At present simply astonishment and incredulity were evident in his look.
How did you get him? Are you sure it is not a young Jack? Come in and tell us all about it. Only think." "The obstinacy and incredulity of you English," replied the new comer, totally disregarding John's exclamations, and remaining dripping in the doorway, "far exceeds anything I could have conceived, if I had not witnessed it.
For while old Incredulity went into the castle to congratulate his lord with what had passed, the old Lord Mayor, that was so before Diabolus came to the town, to wit, my Lord Understanding, and the old Recorder, Mr.
So Craig went philosophically into bondage. He was taken to German Headquarters and handed over to von Zeiglemann's wing "for transport." Craig raised his eyebrows, for the spirit of mischief was on him. "Von Mahl," he said with well-assumed incredulity; "why, I thought oh, by the way, is to-day the sixteenth?" "To-morrow is the sixteenth," snarled von Mahl.
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