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"You have seen women in a faint?" "Yes, many times." "What made the difference? Why should you believe Miss Challoner dead simply because she lay still and apparently lifeless?" "I cannot tell you. Possibly, death tells its own story. I only know how I felt." "Perhaps there was another reason? Perhaps, that, consciously or unconsciously, you laid your palm upon her heart?"
The next moment there was a loud report and Fatia Negra fell back lifeless on the bear skin carpet. At the very moment when he had laughed aloud and cried: "Take it then!" he had suddenly put the mouth of the pistol into his own mouth and fired it off. The heavy charge blew his head to bits, Szilard felt a warm red rain showering down upon him.
And all this army shall know that the Lord saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the Lord's, and He will give you into our hands." Upon this the giant came near to meet David; and the youth made haste and took a stone out of his bag, and slung it with such skill and force that it smote Goliath in the forehead, and sank so deeply that the huge warrior fell lifeless to the ground.
On the way there were no houses, no fences, no cleared fields. The land lay in the dawn as empty as when the keels of restless white men first split the Western ocean; and more lifeless, for the great buffalo herds that of old gave the men of the plains and foothills food and raiment were gone forever. The sun was up when they reached Talapus. Mrs.
The murderer of his son stood still, and gazed long upon the lifeless body. Even in death he was very handsome; his manly face, so short a time ago filled with power, and with an irresistible charm for every woman, still had a marvellous beauty; his black brows, like sombre velvet, set off his pale features.
A serpent curled its loathsome neck, scale after scale, lengthening and still lengthening, out of the darkness, and stoopt down over the child, whose lifeless limbs hung from the old woman's arms: its black tongue lickt up the spirting red blood, and a green sparkling eye shot over into the eye, and brain, and heart of Emilius, who instantly dropt on the ground.
Let him disgorge my substance which he hath devoured; let him restore to my widowed arms my child, my boy, the delight of my eyes, the prop of my life, the staff of my sustenance, whom he hath torn from my embrace, stolen, betrayed, sent into captivity, and murdered! Behold these bleeding wounds upon his lovely breast! see how they mangle his lifeless corse!
If I am found prostrate and lifeless on the paving, I can quickly be identified by the following arrangement of my private affairs: In my right-hand trouser leg is a large hole, partially surrounded by pocket. In my left-hand trouser pocket is a complicated bunch of keys. I am not quite sure what they all belong to, as I rarely lock anything.
It is such wretched half-begotten, half-writ, lifeless, spiritless, low, grovelling stuff, that I almost pity the actor who is obliged to get it by heart, which must be almost as difficult to remember as words in a language you don't understand." "I am sure," said the player, "if the sentences have little meaning when they are writ, when they are spoken they have less.
"The cattle would get it tangled in their hoofs and drag it that far with them," he surmised. The soft gray hat of the dead man he himself appropriated. Again he spoke to the lifeless body, lowering his voice to a murmur. "I reckon you wouldn't grudge me this if you knew. I'm up against it. If I get out of these hills alive I'll be lucky.
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