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The Union batteries had meanwhile kept up their terrible fire, while those of the enemy were silenced one after another and drawn off with the recoiling troops, with the exception of one battery, which maintained its fire with invincible obstinacy. It was felt that this battery must be taken or silenced.
'You are to go with me. 'What for? asked Oliver, recoiling. 'What for? echoed the girl, raising her eyes, and averting them again, the moment they encountered the boy's face. 'Oh! For no harm. 'I don't believe it, said Oliver: who had watched her closely. 'Have it your own way, rejoined the girl, affecting to laugh. 'For no good, then.
"Look here, kid," he said, with determination, "the wife and me are goin' over on this here cable of yours! Will you run it for us?" Jerry backed slightly away. He did it unconsciously, as if recoiling instinctively from something unwelcome. "Better see if Hall's back," he suggested. "And if he ain't?" Again Jerry hesitated. "I'll stand for the risk," Spillane added.
Yet how can we have a real feeling and love for beauty, without detesting and recoiling from such monstrosities?"
Erica turned the heel of her sock and responded as well as she could, her sensitiveness recoiling almost as much from the labored and therefore oppressive kindness, as from the irritating and narrow censure which Mr. Fane-Smith dealt out to the world. Family prayers followed.
"I cannot; I never have any concealments from papa, and I must give in my account in less than a week." "Nonsense! You are and always were the most disobliging creature alive!" returned Arthur with an oath. "Oh, Arthur, how can you say such wicked words," she said, recoiling from him with a shudder. "And you quite misjudge me. I would be glad to do anything for you that is right.
Something had startled him a movement, a rustling in the straw behind him. "What is that?" he asked again, his hand on the table, his face lowering and watchful. The girl had risen also; and, as the last word passed his lips, sprang by him with a low cry, and aimed a frantic blow with her stool at something he could not see, something low, on the floor. "What is it?" he asked, recoiling.
Lois went to her cousin, grieved at heart for his depressed state of mind, anxious to soothe and comfort him, and yet recoiling more than ever from the idea of ultimately becoming his wife an idea to which she saw her aunt reconciling herself unconsciously day by day, as she perceived the English girl's power of soothing and comforting her cousin, even by the very tones of her sweet cooing voice.
"No, no, my man," he said with a grim smile but with a watchful eye, and nodding to the men to close in around them. "Your way's down, not up." "What do you mean?" cried Landless, recoiling. "I mean that the Doctor and the Major and I and these men go back to the settlements to look after things there, and that you are going to renew your acquaintance with Jamestown gaol."
But, hang thee! it was not through thee I learned to know my cousin, Dorothy Vaughan. The recoiling blood stung Richard's heart like the blow of a whip, but he manned himself to answer with coolness. 'What then of her? he said. 'Hast thou been wooing her favour, sir Rowland? Thou owest me nothing there, I admit, even had she not sent me from her.
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