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'Be this from me! said the one-eyed one 'I must not be losing my company thus; gather round the root of the tree and dig about it, and let down that villain to earth. On this they gathered about the tree, and they dug about the root, and the first branching root that they cut, she gave a shiver to fall, and I myself gave a shout, and it was not to be wondered at.
The sounds around here are enough to shake any one's nerves." Some one was singing. The shrill voice rent the air like some weird cry from a lost mind. It made Dorothy shiver. "You think I am demented," she asked finally. "But there is some great mistake. I am Dorothy Dale of Dalton.
A girl would not have any more sense than to come prying around into all the quiet places to say, "This is my grandfather's land. What are you doing here?" At such thoughts as these a queer prickling sensation like a hot shiver would run over him from neck to heel, and his eyes would gloom sullenly. There would be another word to put with that; a word of his own choosing.
Now the sea broke a little, and I saw in the darkness white lines appearing and disappearing, lines of foam, while each wave struck the Marie Joseph and shook her with a short quiver which went to our hearts. "The English girl was trembling. I felt her shiver against me. And I had a wild desire to take her in my arms.
He had broken the envelope, had read, and immediately a tickling feeling over his scalp had sent a dreadful shiver through his frame: "Return at once. Cat found. Marrapit." He had plumped into a chair. For a space the capacity for thought was gone. In his brain was only a heavy drumming that numbed. Beneath the window a laden cart went thumping by thump, thump; thump, thump cat found; cat found.
"Shall we read another psalm, my dear? Or are you tired?" She repressed the little shiver that ran through her before she answered wearily. "I am a little tired. If you don't mind I would like to retire, please." He saw her as far as the door of her apartments and left her with her maid after he had kissed the cold cheek she dutifully turned toward him.
Remembering all that we had done for her; remembering our former friendship; above all, remembering you this look of hers almost made me shiver. She was dressed very smartly in European fashion, and the whole thing had been so sudden that as I stood looking at her I half expected to wake up presently and find it all a day-dream. But it was real as real as her enmity.
They were almost worn out by their sleepless night, and the cold, dewy freshness of the dawn made them shiver: but it was calm, and the sky was clear, and the fragrant air of the fields was about them, upon their lips, on their tongues, down their throats, flowing down into their lungs like a cooling stream: and they stood by a table, out in the open air, and drank comforting hot coffee with creamy milk, heavenly sweet, and tasting of the grass and the flowers of the fields.
Lem's boat lay like a silent, black animal near the bank, and she came to a stop at sight of it. How many times had she seen the dark boat snuggled in the gloom as she saw it now! How many times before had the candle twinkled from the small window, and the sign of life caused her to shiver in fear!
No homely pungency of wood-smoke breathed welcome on the bitter air. The cabin looked startlingly deserted. "Whoa!" commanded McWha, sharply, and glanced round at Johnson with an angry misgiving in his eyes. The teams came to a stop with a shiver of all their bells. Then, upon the sudden stillness, arose the faint sound of a child's voice, crying hopelessly.
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