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Languorously she lay against his breast, and her red lips parted in a smile that maddened him. "You love me, Rodrigo in spite of all?" "Love you!" It was a throbbing, strangled cry, an almost inarticulate ejaculation. "Better than life better than salvation." She fetched a sigh, as of deep content, and nestled closer. "Oh, I am glad so glad that your love for me is truly strong.

And how dull they were, the interiors of these sheltered bungalows, how dull and stupid the monotonous life that went on inside them dejected, weary, useless little rounds of household activity, that went along languorously each day, and led nowhere. It all led nowhere.

Piotr walked quietly upon the path along the river-bank, and thought of Elisaveta sadly and languorously or rather, he recalled her evoked her in vision involuntarily yielded himself to the melancholy play of the nervous fantasies of his brain.

He looked through the doorway into the ball-room whence the music swelled. The note of regret was louder than ever in his ears, and dominated the melody. To-morrow the lights, the delicate frocks, the laughing voices and bright eyes would be gone. The violins spoke to him of that morrow of blank emptiness softly and languorously like one making a luxury of grief.

"Because I had rather die solitary than live in your fellowship " "Dolt! Clod! Worm!" cried she 'twixt gnashing teeth, and then all in a moment she was gazing down at me soft and gentle-eyed, red lips up-curving and smooth cheek dimpling to a smile: "Ah, Martin," sighs she languorously, "see how you do vex me!

I sought to rise, to go to meet her slow approach, to lessen by a second this agony of waiting. But my limbs were powerless. I was as if cast in lead, whilst more and more slowly she approached me, so languorously mocking. And then revulsion took me, suddenly and without any cause or warning. I put my hands to my face to shut out a vision whose true significance I realized as in a flash.

It evoked visions of white women languorously moving in processional attitudes beneath the chaste rays of an implacable moon. The voice modulated into crisp morning inflections: "You are going far, Excellency?" She knew him! And the slave who grinned and grinned and never spoke what was he? She seemed to follow Pobloff's thought. "Hamet is dumb.

And kneeling on the chairs between the pillars there are always women surrendering themselves languorously to the dim spot's voluptuous charm. Lisa stood and gazed tranquilly around her. She did not feel the least emotion, but considered that it was a mistake not to light the lamps. Their brightness would have given the place a more cheerful look.

There he perched himself in one of the four comfortable wicker chairs, placed his feet on the leather-cushioned seat across the stern and languorously observed a less fortunate person scrape the deck of a sloop on the far side of the slip. Suppose that, while the Adventurer's crew prepares for service, we have a look over the boat.

Kirk took his stand at last beneath a street light and gazed languorously upon the windows opposite until his eyes ached as well as his feet. At last a curtain parted, and he saw the flash of a white dress back of it. His heart leaped; he raised his hat; there was a titter from beyond the iron grating. Presently another figure was dimly revealed.