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The heat of the day had blackened it, and it was now deprived of all its manly beauty, and nothing remained but a loathsome corpse.
Too astonished for struggle, the girl felt herself grow faint in his loathsome embrace, while to her ears came his panted words: "I'll show ye. I wants ye, an' I'll git ye." Adroitly, with a regained power of resistance and a lithe twist, she slipped out of his grasp, hammering at his face futilely with her clenched fists. "I I've got a notion ter kill ye!" she cried, brokenly.
"Devil, craven, and loathsome and he knows not what he is!" she gasped. "He is a mad thing who knows not that all his thoughts are of hell." 'Twas, in sooth, a strange and monstrous thing to see him so unwavering and bold, flinching before no ignominy, shrinking not to speak openly the thing before the mere accusation of which other men's blood would have boiled.
I was standing before the silver cistern, I remember, washing away with my handkerchief an invisible stain from my hand, child-fashion, a loathsome impress, when I felt his audacious arms thrown suddenly around me, and his hot, polluting kisses on my face. "I love I love you!" he hissed in my ear, "and sooner or later I will possess you!"
At the same time Alina, the widow of de Quincy, was married to the second son of Fitzgerald, and Nesta Fitzgerald was united to Raymond's former rival, Herve. Thus, bound together, fortune returned in full tide to the adventurers. But his end was already come. An ulcer in his foot brought on a long and loathsome illness, which terminated in his death, in the month of May, 1176, or 1177.
His children, notwithstanding the brutalizing influence to which they have been subjected, have, by no means, sunk down to his standard of corruption; and some of them at least would seem ready to hang their heads when they call him "father." I cannot at this moment think of a more loathsome example of moral debasement than this person presents.
Brutal indifference, utter contempt, or more insulting condescension, toward the rank and file, was an article of the fine old English gentleman's religion "a point of our faith," as the pious Sir Thomas Browne seriously puts it the complementary part being a loathsome servility toward nobility and royalty.
As the powerful toggles forced the heavy screw threads into engagement and drove the massive disk home into its bottle-tight, insulated seat, that grisly tip fell severed to the floor of the compartment and lay there, twitching and writhing with a loathsome and unearthly vigor. Two feet long the piece was, and larger than a strong man's leg.
Food, for months previous to the time of my attaining to such a dose as sixty grains, became literally loathsome; its sight would sicken me; my muscles, hitherto firm and well defined, began to diminish in bulk and to lose their contour; my face looked like a hatchet covered with yellow ochre: and this is the best and truest comparison I can institute.
I discovered that when he was interested he forgot his loathsome cravings, and became almost lovable. I went home with him once, to a mean house in . He took me into the backyard and showed me his treasury half a dozen rabbits, as many guinea-pigs, and a raven with a bald head.
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