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"Miss Cumberland, did you ever see that bit of broken glass before?" She shook her head. Then she cast a quick look at her brother, and seemed to gain an instantaneous courage. "No," said she. "I may have seen a whole bottle like that, at some time in the club-house, but I have no memory of this broken end none at all." "I am obliged to you, Miss Cumberland. I will trouble you no more to-day."
"But he always comes when he is in town. Business I suppose ahem!" "No," replied Alison, dropping her bomb with cruel precision, "he has gone to Calvary." The agitation was instantaneous. "To Calvary!" exclaimed mother and son in one breath. "Why?" It was Gordon who demanded. "A a special occasion there a bishop or something?" "I'm afraid you must ask him," she said.
I saw, with instantaneous but photographic distinctness, a lady, with a dog tucked under her arm, who hesitated a moment in our very path. She was one of the largest ladies I ever saw and the dog under her arm was certainly the smallest dog I ever saw. You might say the lady was practically out of dog.
When the doctor came he said that death had been instantaneous and probably painless, caused in all likelihood by some sudden shock. The secret of the shock was discovered to be in the paper Matthew had held and which Martin had brought from the office that morning. It contained an account of the failure of the Abbey Bank.
We have now to ask what character we have found in nature which is capable of according to the elements of an instantaneous space different qualities of position. This question at once brings us to the intersection of moments, which is a topic not as yet considered in these lectures.
He thought it would revive him, so, of course, the effect was instantaneous. The same quantity of prussic acid could not have killed him more rapidly than the brandy rallied his scattered forces, and, not being a physiologist, he gave the brandy all the credit. "Ah!" he said, smacking his lips with some of the old-time relish, "that puts new life into one.
"And what thought," asked Turnbull, with frantic composure, "occupies what you call your mind?" "I must kill you now," said the fanatic, "because " "Well, because," said Turnbull, patiently. "Because I have begun to like you." Turnbull's face had a sudden spasm in the sunlight, a change so instantaneous that it left no trace behind it; and his features seemed still carved into a cold stare.
A single false step meant death, instantaneous and inevitable, and the whole terrible ten minutes which it took her to complete the short distance was poignant with the dread of what she might discover at its end.
But Edward soon found the Lithograph Company calling for "copy," and, write as he might, he could not supply the biographies fast enough. He, at last, completed the first hundred, and so instantaneous was their success that Mr. Knapp called for a second hundred, and then for a third.
But casting away his cloak, and unclasping his helmet at the door of the keep, he entered the council-hall, openly and abruptly. By an instantaneous impulse of respect, which even the base pay to virtue, almost every man arose at his appearance. He bowed to the assembly, and walked, with a composed yet severe air, up to his station at the head of the room.
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