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The tangle of ropes which Buckrow had put on my ankles caught in loose stones and chafed the flesh until the blood came; and my wrists, pulled down with tight knots, which I had to strain against to keep my balance, throbbed and pained and tingled, my arms being numbed by the blood in the bound arteries.
There was a note of pained surprise in his voice. "I don't want you to put it that way, sir." His heart really bled for him it was all he could do to control himself. "How the devil else can I put it?" "Well, I thought you might want to do a little shooting, sir." "Shooting! What with? One of Gadgem's guns? Hire it of him, eh, and steal the powder and shot!" he cried savagely.
Mother! How can you accuse me of such a feeling?" He could say no more for he was deeply pained at the charge. "Well, John, I was wrong to say 'jealous. I said it because it was the ugliest word I could think of at the moment." "If you thought I was jealous, you were right to tell me so." "Nay, my lad, I didn't think so not for a moment so I was wrong.
Not a word must be said which could pain or wound anyone. The friends and relations, it would seem, are not pained by the dead man's faults, they are only pained that other people should know them. The biography becomes a mixture of disinfectants and perfumes, as if it were all meant to hide some putrid thing.
Captain Erskine, in particular, was deeply pained, and would have given any thing to recall the harsh language he had used towards the supposed idle and inattentive drummer boy.
The eye of the person who has fine color-sense will be pained by the lack of harmony. But confine your selection to the soft pinks, the delicate lavenders, and the pure whites, and the result will be something to delight the artistic eye restful, harmonious, and as pleasing as a strain of exquisite poetry in fact, a poem in color.
This is the everlasting law. And so pained, out of tune, troubled too by smouldering fires of anger, Richard left Westchurch and his fellow-magistrates as early as he decently could. Avoiding the highroad leading by Newlands and through Sandyfield village, he cut across country by field lanes and over waste lands to Farley Row.
I never knew I did so many wicked things till I was there," said Stella. Lucy looked pained, and Sophy interposed. "Well, you've shocked Lucy enough for one night, and it's high time she and you too were in bed. So come at once, Stella."
How can it be possible for me? But I'll try. Thanks for anything! You're an angel I'll try. 'And it's horribly inconsistent, and no doubt very wicked of me, but, do you know, I should be rather pained if I heard you had fallen in love with someone else. 'Ah, that would be impossible! he cried. 'Never never! It's the real thing; there never was anyone like you, there never will be.
"Yes, father; since Ishmael is not here to be pained by his presence, I thought it better to bring him back; for I remembered your words spoken of him on a former occasion: 'That kindness will do more to reform such a nature as his than reprobation could." "Yes very true! But poor Ishmael! Where is he?" Aye! where, indeed?
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