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It is a well-known fact that dangers in a silken robe are the most formidable of all. Mme. de Lorcy presented him to the princess, who raised her chin to examine him with her little glittering eyes. It seemed to him that those gray orbs directed at him were two balls, which struck him in the heart; he quivered from head to foot and asked himself confusedly whether he were dead or living.
Hence I think it would be wiser for me to foot it back to my native soil and till the wilderness in my wonted way, rather than bear a bishopric here, lose the ancient immunities of the Church entrusted to me, and subject her to unprecedented vexations." This answer the archbishop took very ill. His voice choked, his lips quivered.
From a golden frame on the wall a face smiled down upon her and it was hard for the girl to believe that it was only a portrait. A fleeting smile seemed to play about the mouth, the delicately curved lips almost quivered and the brown eyes sparkled with joy. Kit's hands instinctively went out toward the beautiful woman.
Sometimes I myself have been sublime, I myself have been a masterpiece. Sometimes my visions have been mingled with a thrill of evidence so strong and so creative that the whole room has quivered with it like a forest, and there have been moments, in truth, when the silence cried out. But I have stolen all this, and I have profited by it, thanks to the shamelessness of the truth revealed.
It quivered visibly and rang as the powerful blows from the other side bludgeoned into it, and evenly spaced, shrewdly delivered at the vital middle point. Whrang, whrang even strokes, ringing throughout the barred laboratory whrang ... whrang.... And then a similar piece settled into clanging routine on another door; then on the remaining two.
You don't go looking at belfries with Charlie Thesiger. I could not reconcile that enchanting and enchanted Viola of the garden of Bruges with this dreadful flying figure. I hated myself; I hated Kendal, the chauffeur, as I sat behind his tight, efficient body that quivered with the fury of the hunt.
Delancey's lips quivered, but his countenance did not change, as he looked her in the face, and told her he had not known it until now. And now her husband spoke: "It was very late, and he must want refreshment; and Mr.
While all were in high spirits at finding themselves once more at sea, a severe blow was felt; the ship quivered from stem to stern, and a cry was raised, "We are on shore! we are on shore!"
The girl's lips quivered into something that tried to be a smile. "How did you intend to show it before before you came in here this morning?" "Why, we" Miss Martha cleared her throat again, "we feel sure, of course, that unless your father left you money you you will want to find something to do, and we intend to help you find it." Sylvia looked like a pale flower as she stood there.
"I advise you to believe my judgment, Daisy, if you wish to keep the peace between us. I will not have any more calling of it in question." Daisy struggled plainly, though she would not cry; her colour flushed, her lip quivered. She was entirely silent for a little while, and Mr. Randolph sat watching her.
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