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That smile was the feather to the arrow that pierced her, and that was piercing her at that moment it was the cold but glittering glance of the rattlesnake, when breaking down by the poison of his eyes the power of resistance in his devoted victim. "Mr.
"If I ketch him again," went on Carmichael, with his mouth lining hard, "I'm goin' after him." He gave her a cool, intent, piercing look, then he dropped his head and turned away, to stride back toward the corrals. Helen could make little of the manner in which her sister watched the cowboy pass out of sight. "A month back when I changed sudden-like," mused Bo.
The supper is interrupted by Donna Elvira, who comes to plead on her knees with Don Giovanni to change his mode of life. He mocks at her solicitude and invites her to sit with him at table. She leaves the room in despair, but sends back a piercing shriek from the corridor.
Three-quarters of an hour later, Sengstack called on him for the second time that day Abner Sengstack, small, dark-faced, club-footed, a great sole of leather three inches thick under his short, withered right leg, his slightly Slavic, highly intelligent countenance burning with a pair of keen, piercing, inscrutable black eyes. Sengstack was a fit secretary for Mollenhauer.
"But why," he asked "do you want to write a novel? Why not write a real book?" "What do you call a real book, old David?" demanded Reay, looking down upon him with a sudden piercing glance. Helmsley was for a moment confused. He was thinking of such books as Carlyle's "Past and Present" Emerson's "Essays" and the works of Ruskin.
Besides this, there are the din of voices, screams of laughter, and the confused burr and buzz of a great crowd. On all sides you are saluted by the strangest noises. Instead of being spoken to, you are whistled at. Companies of people are marching together in platoons, or piercing through the crowd in long files, and dancing and blowing like mad on their instruments.
She wondered how Stewart could follow a trail in the dark. His eyes must be as piercing as they sometimes looked. Over her shoulder Madeline could not see the horse behind her, but she heard him. As Majesty climbed steadily Madeline saw the gray darkness grow opaque, change and lighten, lose its substance, and yield the grotesque shapes of yucca and ocotillo. Dawn was about to break.
But one nervous young lady, whose agitation was being manifested by her feet alone, happened to touch with the toe of her boot the turn-screw of the hot-air register. Instantly she sprang back and uttered a piercing scream, while from the register there arose a thick column of smoke. "Fire!" screamed one lady. "Water!" shrieked another. "Oh!" shouted several in chorus.
The Baron did not indeed see twenty thousand flaming eyes, like the man condemned to death; he saw but one, of which the shaft was really more piercing than the thousands on the Public Square. Now this sensation, far rarer in the midst of enjoyment even than that of a man condemned to death, was one for which many a splenetic Englishman would certainly pay a high price.
One morning just about daybreak I built a fire, and while Rolla and I were warming ourselves we were fired upon by some forty Indians. Rolla fell, pierced through the heart, and died instantly. How I escaped I know not, for the balls whistled all around me, knocking up the fire, and even piercing my clothing, yet I was not so much as scratched.
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