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And she, not paralyzed by a preliminary vivisection, endowed with all her normal vitality, lets him have his way, lets herself be sucked dry, with the utmost apathy. Not a tremor in her outraged flesh, not a quiver of resistance. No corpse could show greater indifference to the bite which it receives. Ah, but the maggot has chosen the hour of attack with traitorous cunning!
We are feverish, not because of the external temperature, but because of the state of our own blood. The very emotion of desire disturbs us; wishes make us unquiet; and when a whole heart, full of varying, sometimes contradictory longings, is boiling within a man, how can he but tremble and quiver?
The Indians have shown ingenuity in making a quiver to hold the arrows. It will contain from five to six hundred. It is generally from twelve to fourteen inches long, and in shape resembles a dice-box used at backgammon. The inside is prettily done in basket-work, with wood not unlike bamboo, and the outside has a coat of wax. The cover is all of one piece, formed out of the skin of the tapir.
A round shot from the fleet struck the ground in front of him, covering him with earth and breaking the arm with which he was loading his musket. At the same moment a bullet from the enemy struck his nearest comrade, passing right through his body as he lay upon the ground. A slight quiver convulsed his frame, and then it was at rest forever.
Mingled with this mood, however, was the philosophic investigation, characteristic of the man of science. Not the minutest symptom escaped him. A heightened flush of the cheek a slight irregularity of breath a quiver of the eyelid a hardly perceptible tremor through the frame such were the details which, as the moments passed, he wrote down in his folio volume.
That's all right! Torpenhow kicked out a tuft of grass with his heel. 'Smell that, he said. 'Isn't it good? Dick sniffed luxuriously. 'Now pick up your feet and run. They approached as near to the regiment as was possible. The clank of bayonets being unfixed made Dick's nostrils quiver. 'Let's get nearer. They're in column, aren't they? 'Yes. How did you know? 'Felt it.
When he quitted him he carried in his hand an order of arrest against his assistant Pollux, who had attacked his property and abstracted a quiver of massive silver. The magistrate had also promised him to send two of his guards who would carry the offender off to prison. Papias went home with a much lighter heart.
A quiver passed over his lips. Athribis reminded him of home. "Is my mother here?" asked Timokles. A sorrow deeper than tears looked from his eyes. Athribis smiled. "Thy mother!" he said. The tone was a sufficient answer. Timokles' eyes fell. "Thou wilt never see her again," went on Athribis. "Thy mother hateth thee! She is faithful to Egypt's gods, if thou art not!
"I am going to my people," he said to me; "I want to tell them of Jesus. You will pray for me?" he added, with a quiver in his voice and a heaving chest. He went away, and I have never seen him since. Where he is now, I know not. I trust I may meet him on Mount Sion, with the harpers harping with their harps, and singing, as it were, a new song before the throne. Postscript.
He involved himself in a fruitless argument with Buddy, upon the subject of what a seven-year-old can stand in the way of riding, and yielded finally before the quiver of Buddy's lips. They were only going over on Long Ridge, anyway, and the day was fine, and Buddy had frequently ridden as far, according to Dick.
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