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She had an uncanny power of making her eyes go suddenly grave and deep, like a glittering river narrowing into a pool. 'We shall never be introduced, she said, 'so let me reveal myself. I'm Mary Lamington and these are my aunts ... Did you really like Leprous Souls? It was easy enough to talk to her. And oddly enough her mere presence took away the oppression I had felt in that room.
It seemed to me that both our guest and his fellow-villain in uniform smiled as we fled down the road easterly betwixt the narrowing hedges. "You'll know all about it in a little time," said our guest. "You've only yourselves to thank for runnin' your 'ead into a trap." And he whistled ostentatiously. We made no answer. "If that man 'ad chose, 'e could have identified me," he said.
The kibitka no longer drifted, but spun rapidly round, inclining towards the center of the eddy, like a rider in a circus. The horse could scarcely keep his head above water, and ran a great risk of being suffocated. Serko had been obliged to take refuge in the carriage. Michael knew what was happening. He felt himself drawn round in a gradually narrowing line, from which they could not get free.
"Who would have thought that a single bolt of lightning could have resulted in such havoc?" mused Victoria. "Who would?" agreed Lieutenant Butzow, and then, with a sudden narrowing of his eyes and a quick glance at Barney, "if it WAS lightning." The American looked at the Luthanian. "You think " he started.
We could willingly endorse what Cardinal Newman wrote to a friend: "Instead of aiming at being a world-wide power, we are shrinking into ourselves, narrowing the lines of communion, trembling at freedom of thought, and using the language of dismay and despair at the prospect before us, instead of the high spirit of the warrior going out conquering and to conquer." "Ut sint unum!"
There were even times when the very atmosphere seemed to her charged with hostility a terrible overwhelming antagonism that closed about her in a narrowing ring which serpent-wise constricted her ever more and more, from which she could never hope to escape. For still the old idea haunted her she was a trespasser upon forbidden ground. Once she had been cast forth.
Aiken is too nice to leave." "I sometimes think," said my mother, "that the life you lead is narrowing. At your age, how I should have jumped at the chance to see California in spring! But I shan't ask you why you don't jump. I know very well you'd not tell me." "Must I have a reason? They say women don't have reasons for doing things. Why should men?"
"They took my hotel key: nothing else." "Was that a serious matter, Mr. McKay?" He studied her with narrowing brown eyes. "Oh, no," he said. "I had nothing of value in my room at the Astor except a few necessaries in a steamer-trunk.... Thank you so much for all your kindness to me, Miss Erith," he added, as though relieving her of the initiative in terminating the interview.
There were a number of candidates in the race and the legislature was in session, when an urgent letter reached me, urging my presence at the capital of Kansas. The race was narrowing to a close, a personal consultation was urged, and I hastened north as fast as a relay of horses and railroad trains could carry me.
He had followed her into the large main room of the cabin, and had laid his saddle-bags down by the side of the chair in which he had seated himself, his elbows on his knees, his hands held out to the flickering blaze in the deep chimney-place, his eyes significantly narrowing as he gazed upon it. "Naw, Sister Sudley," he wagged his head more mournfully still.