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But his nerveless fingers broke the only match he had, as he attempted to strike it on the step, and, holding his pipe before him, he sat staring into space. He had a hunted sense of wanting to avoid forever all human contact; an intangible shame burned within him, drying up the tender emotions which so recently had swayed his being.
And now you know " I nodded, understanding only too well. Catherine had flung herself into a chair. Her arms lay nerveless on the table. Her face was hidden in them. But now, overhearing us, or stung by some fresh thought, she sprang to her feet in anguish. Her face twitched, her form seemed to stiffen as she drew herself up like one in physical pain.
It was the Polish LANCE that left Poland at last with nothing of her own to bound. "Dropped from her nerveless grasp the SHATTERED SPEAR!" What business had Sarmatia to be fighting for liberty with a fifteen-foot pole between her and the breasts of her enemies?
She beheld the minister advancing along the path, entirely alone, and leaning on a staff which he had cut by the wayside. He looked haggard and feeble, and betrayed a nerveless despondency in his air, which had never so remarkably characterized him in his walks about the settlement, nor in any other situation where he deemed himself liable to notice.
He still held her hand imprisoned that fragrant, listless little hand, so lifeless, nerveless, unresponsive as though it were no longer a part of her and she had forgotten it. "I'll do anything you wish," he said slowly. "Then don't eat any of these mulberries until you are acclimated. I'm sorry; they are so delicious. But I won't eat any more, either."
If faults in composition be unavoidable, I should rather give preference to that which is harsh and rough than to that which is nerveless and weak, the results of an affected style that many now study, and which constantly corrupts, more and more, by a wantonness in numbers more becoming a dance than the majesty of eloquence.
Voss came back into the house after his fruitless errand, he found his wife standing in the hall, only a few feet back from the vestibule, her face whiter, if that were possible, and her eyes wilder than before. Catching her in his arms, he ran with her up stairs, but before he had reached their chamber her light form lay nerveless and unconscious against his breast.
When I look at him it is as if his fallen face, his hanging nerveless hands, his down-drooping figure and eyes lit with despair were mine. His poses, his gestures, his physical tricks, they are all mine.
Slack smiled wanly, and extended a clammy, nerveless hand as cold and limber as a dead fish. "You're expected," said he. "Mr. Carter is waiting to see you before leaving for California." "Seeing me won't make his trip any pleasanter," O'Reilly said, somberly. "We were afraid you wouldn't get out of Cuba; thought we might have to get the American consul at work." "Really?
The hatred of the whole struggling, sordid crew, all the cant and ugliness and ignorance of a mad world, his weakness in the face of it, his fall from common virtue, his nerveless indolence all stung him like needle points, till he cried out in agony. Anything to deliver his soul from such a bondage, and in his extreme bitterness his mind closed with Wratislaw's offer.
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