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He has been the curse of my whole life; he has made life cursed to me; and his heart's blood shall be shed for it some day yet, I swear!" With all her beauty there was something so horrible in the look she wore, that Sir Norman involuntarily recoiled from her. Her sharp eyes noticed it, and both grew red and fiery as two devouring flames. "Ah! you, too, shrink from me, would you?
Darke's arm instinctively fell, and he was at his adversary's mercy. Instead of plunging his sword into Darke's breast, however, as he might have done, Mohun let its point fall, and said: "Take your life! Now I am even with you, sir!" Darke recoiled, and a furious flash darted from his eyes.
They pressed forward; they looked up in anguish; old men who had followed her when a fairy child, friends of long standing, acquaintances of yesterday. Again and again the gallant soldier penetrated the low doorway; again and again he swerved and recoiled from the furnace fumes that met him a more fearful encounter than the fury of the sans-culottes and the reeking pools beneath the guillotine.
I don't pretend to know how it all happened, but somehow or other I had succeeded in checking the onward career of the victorious Slider; for though I had fallen half stunned before the force of his charge, he had recoiled for an instant from the same shock, and that instant gave time for Wright to get hold of him, and so put an end for the time to his progress.
The revolver fell with a clatter to the cave floor. His foot slid in something wet, something sticky. "Blood!" he gasped. Half-crazed, he reeled toward the door. The flash-lamp in his hand flung its white brush of radiance along the wall. With a chattering cry he recoiled.
Jocelyn was sinking under her sorrows. She did not complain: she blamed herself with a growing morbidness for the ruin of her husband and the hard lot of her children, and hope deferred was making her heart sick indeed. Her refined, gentle nature recoiled with an indescribable repugnance from her surroundings, and one day she received a shock from which she never fully recovered.
I tell you that she is mad, mad, mad!" He had begun to walk angrily to and fro. All at once he stopped: "My dear fellow, you will just oblige me by telling her that he is dead." But he turned pale and recoiled. Constance stood on the threshold and had heard him. For some time past she had been in the habit of stealthily prowling around the offices, like one on the watch for something.
"Peace, homicide," cried the parson, shuddering; and he glided to the side of the detected sinner, from whom all else had recoiled in loathing. Craft against craft, talent against talent, treason against treason in all this Randal Leslie would have risen superior to Giulio di Peschiera. But what now crushed him was not the superior intellect, it was the sheer brute power of audacity and nerve.
I will proclaim it in the face of earth and heaven. I will proclaim it till my dying day. How dare you come to me with slanders so vile, false, unprincipled woman? "She recoiled a few steps from me, and held up her deprecating hands.
It recalled the brutal slaughter of the Dutch captain, and suddenly she realized that what her brother had just said of this man was no more than true. Fear growing to panic was written on her face, as she stood there leaning for support against the table. "Why, sweetheart, what is this?" Levasseur moved towards her. She recoiled before him.
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