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Could she was it possible she could still come between them in some way? Ann had heard of such things. It seemed to her as though, betwixt herself and Eliot, there hovered a dim, formless shadow, vague and nebulous a shadow which had crept silently out from some memory-haunted corner of the past. "Not bad news for us?" she repeated quiveringly.

Where am I? thought Beauchamp in what land, he would have phrased it, of whirlwinds catching the wits, and whipping the passions? Calmer than they, but unable to command them, and guessing that Renee's errand of the morning, by which he had lost hours of her, pertained to the glove, he said quiveringly, 'Madame la Marquise objects?

For my affections were still quiveringly alive in those days, and I loved her. I had for an instant an instinctive impulse to tell her the whole story, South Sea Islands and all! And I could have done it had I not beheld looming behind her another figure which represented a stern and unsympathetic Authority, and somehow made her, suddenly, of small account.

There was a hush, a stillness in the air, and he drew it over the strings one tone, deep and pure with a rainbow of colours, shading from fortissimo, filling the House, to the faintest piano pianissimo, delicate, elusive; breathing it out, and pressing on the string with his finger until it penetrated the air like an echo, and the bow was still drawing slowly, quiveringly.

She was nothing but glad, quiveringly, passionately glad, moving in his embrace toward a chair, babbling breathless greetings; she had not expected him, she was surprised, she was and the words trailed off, her face hidden against his arm. It was far from what he had expected and he was thankful for that moment when she stopped looking at him and he could master his surprise.

Then her thin hand crept quiveringly up to his hair, touching it shyly, and two great tears rolled down her face. "Barry, I've been so lonely" it was the cry of a frightened desolate child "if you have no pity on yourself, will you have no pity on me?" "Gillian!" he raised his head sharply, staring at her with desperate unbelieving eyes, "You care?"

Oh, yass, I b'lieve I un'stand dat; I un'stan' it some." I showed her the north star, and told her how to find it; and then I took from my watch-guard a tiny compass and let her see how it forever picked out from among all the stars of heaven that one small light, and held quiveringly to it. She hung over it with ecstatic sighs.

In the last analysis, questions of art always become a question of ethics: the separation is arbitrary and unnatural. That "Tess" is the book into which the author has most intensely put his mature belief, may be true: it is quiveringly alive, vital as only that is which comes from the deeps of a man's being.

Field, with a struggle, putting her twisted hand into the other woman's, extended quiveringly in a rusty black glove. "When did you come to town, Esther?" "Jest now." "Let me see, where from? I can't seem to remember the name of the place where you've been livin'. I know it, too." "Green River." "Oh, yes, Green River. Well, I'm glad to see you, Esther.

It was one insufferable evening when the overplus of the day's heat was being hurled quiveringly back to the heavens by every surcharged brick and stone and inch of iron in the panting town. But with the cunning of the two-legged beasts we had found an oasis where the hoofs of Apollo's steed had not been allowed to strike.