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One of the most frequent of these manifestations was the sudden darting forth of long sharp quivering tongues from the bodies of the blackest and most lowering of the clouds. With the appearance of the first of these Leslie knew what to expect, for he had beheld the same phenomenon more than once before, and quite understood what it portended.
When consciousness emerged, quivering, from this retrospective assault, it pushed Margaret Ransom feeling herself a mere leaf in the blast toward the writing-table from which her innocent and voluminous correspondence habitually flowed. She had a letter to write now much shorter but more difficult than any she had ever been called on to indite. "Dear Mr.
He thought of the coat they had come to obtain, but that had probably gone with the hat and the hay and all other things in the route of the hurricane. He stooped close over her quivering form and let the frozen pellets fall on his unprotected head. The deluge was mercifully short, but at the end Luther Hansen was almost beaten into insensibility.
"Ah," said the professor slowly and dubiously, as Frank listened with his heart beating fast, while he held his quivering nether lip pressed tightly by his teeth; "you think that would be possible, Sheikh?" "Possible, your Excellency?" said the man, in an earnest whisper; "why not? Am I a man to boast and say `I will do this, and then show that I have a heart of water, and do it not?"
The nearer we moved to it, the more indefinite became its outlines; soon all the air was clouded over, there was a strong smell of burning, and here and there between the trees, with a strange, weird quivering in the sunshine, gleamed the first pale red tongues of flame. 'Well, thank God, observed Kondrat, 'it seems it's an overground fire. 'What's that? 'Overground?
The roof was low, and seemed lower still by heavy intersecting beams, which I might have touched with my lifted hand. And the tall guttering candle by the bedside, and the flicker from the fire struggling out through the fuel but newly heaped on it, threw their reflection on the ceiling just over my head in a reek of quivering blackness, like an angry cloud.
This land was his, as was any in which he walked, and he would not be defied. His victory over the tiger still lived in him, and the man-child was beyond his experience. He was a prince of power, and aggression his only creed. Coming close in short, growling breaths, he raised up his quivering bulk for battle, and on his hind legs advanced toward the tiger.
Her slender body was quivering. Suddenly Peter saw the fire in her eyes and the flame that was rushing into her white cheeks. Then she turned to him, and panted in a wild little whisper, so low that the Missioner could not hear: "Peter, I was wrong. God wasn't wicked to let Mister Roger kill Jed Hawkins. He oughta been killed. An' God meant him to be killed.
What d'you say?" "Why, yes," said Graham, quivering with anticipation. "Yes, indeed, if " "Well?" "If you really think it's worth anything, sir."
He was quivering like one suddenly stricken with ague. Not an inch of his body was free from this fearful palsy. "Oh, what would I give for the light now!" he thought; "will they never come?" Yes. What was that? Merciful powers! his prayer seemed to be answered. He saw the faint glimmering of a light Yes, it was coming this way. What a relief! He drew a long, long sigh.
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