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"If I were a young girl it might be love or flirtation; if I were a coquette it might be an evil fascination such as too often wrecks young men. As I do not choose it shall be any of these, you must not grow sentimental with me." She looks at him out of clear eyes that are maddening, and yet he cannot but read his fate in them. It is thus far and no farther.
He attempted several times to wheel round and run away, but I was determined not to yield to him, and continued the contest. When I dismounted his terror seemed gone, but he hung his head in a dejected manner, like a horse that has been under the saddle all day. I have never witnessed another such instance of almost maddening fear.
The imprisonment became torture became maddening. What if he were suddenly to murder this old man and stop forever his insufferable prosing about Bernada Siena and Andrea Mantegna? It seemed so strange to hear him talk of the unearthly calm of Raphael's "St.
The roar of battle was so tremendous that his horse, maddened with the din and the sharp whiz of the bullets, at times was well-nigh unmanageable, and occupied his attention almost to the exclusion of other thoughts; especially after it had been struck by a bullet in the hind quarters, and had come to understand that those strange and maddening noises meant danger.
"It's going to clean me of my last dollar to make good with you on my charter, even if Morrow & Company do not make good with me on theirs; and " Cappy Ricks held up his hand. "My dear boy," he said with maddening calm, "listen to me! I had a hunch this would happen.
This discovery revealed the maddening circumstance that what had been sent out to Ruhleben for free distribution among the prisoners was actually being sold. There was an enquiry which yielded a more or less convincing result according to one's point of view. There was also an outcry over the crates in which these articles were sent to us.
Irving out walking this afternoon, looking very well satisfied with themselves. If you dilly-dally much longer, Sue, you will let Max slip through your fingers yet." That was a tactful thing to say to ME, who had refused Max Irving so often that I had lost count. I was furious, and so I smiled most sweetly on my maddening aunt. "Dear Aunt, how amusing of you," I said, smoothly.
In the latter case the sense that the misery felt may be ended by so small a thing as another's will; that another may, by lifting a finger, cut it short, and will not; that to persuade him is all that is needful this becomes at the last maddening, intolerable, a thing to upset the reason, if that other will not be persuaded.
They are as living as those Japanese Prints so maddening to some among us, or as the drawings of Lionardo. They also in their place are "pure line" to use the ardent modern slang, and unpolluted "imaginative suggestion." The mistake our "aesthetes" made, these lovers of Egyptian dancers and Babylonian masks, is that they suppose the simplicity of Lamb's subjects debar him from the rare effects.
You're made a gentleman for life, and you ask if it's a joke played upon you! It's maddening! There there goes my hat! With a vehement kick, Mr. Raikes despatched his ancient head-gear to the other end of the room, saying that he must have some wine, and would; and disdainful was his look at Evan, when the latter attempted to reason him into economy.
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