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I could never flourish there, nor be happy, nor do nor enjoy what God meant me to do and enjoy." His face darkened, and seemed to contract, and shrivel itself up, and wither into age. "Never, sir!" he repeated. "I could never draw cheerful breath there!" "I should think not," said the old gentleman, eyeing Clifford earnestly, and rather apprehensively.
We went towards a thicket of scrub. A clangour like hammers flung about a boiler hastened our steps. "We must crawl," whispered Cavor. The lower leaves of the bayonet plants, already overshadowed by the newer ones above, were beginning to wilt and shrivel so that we could thrust our way in among the thickening stems without serious injury. A stab in the face or arm we did not heed.
Then it looked as if they closed and interlocked. I expected to see both go crashing, when suddenly the wings of one seemed to shrivel up, and the machine dropped like a stone. 'Hun, said Archie. 'That makes three. Oh, good lads! Good lads! Then I saw something which took away my breath.
He would devote his mind to the contemplation of tigers! In a short time the moon would rise, he knew then he would be able to see better. While he was in this very uncomfortable state of mind, with the jungle wrapped in profound silence as well as gloom, there broke on the night air a wail so indescribable that the very marrow in Nigel's bones seemed to shrivel up.
It isn't a pleasant type, but it's ideally American." "Yes," said Kendricks ruefully. "But his daughter," I continued, "is probably altogether different. There is something fine about her really fine. Our world wouldn't shrivel in her eye; it would probably swell up and fill the universe," I added by an impulse that came from nowhere irresistibly upon me: "that is, if she could see YOU in it."
The current of my life began to set in a different direction. I turned the pages of a book of pity and of death more beautiful than that of Pierre Loti. I could hear at last the great cry for sympathy, which is the music of this strange suffering world, and, listening to it, in my heart there rang an echo. The cruelty in my nature seemed to shrivel up.
He died, last night, and hardly anybody considers him worth burying. Some one on the street to-day asked what Vrek had left behind. The answer was 'Nothing he took it all with him, for he had so little to take." "That's jolly," said the older kabouter, who was a wicked looking fellow. "I'll get some fun out of this. To shrivel up souls will be my business henceforth.
The scene quieted her in moods of restlessness which came from a feeling that her mission was interrupted, that half her life's work had been suddenly taken from her. When David went, her life had seemed to shrivel; for with him she had developed as he had developed; and when her busy care of him was withdrawn, she had felt a sort of paralysis which, in a sense, had never left her.
There are eyes watching us, and from their gaze we by instinct fend our inner self just as by instinct we fend our nakedness. Overmuch crowded with such events, the inner self is prone to shrivel, to fade beneath lack of nutriment; and it may happen that in time the unnatural self will take its place, will become our very self. That is gravely to our disadvantage.
"If so the honest sun and rain will recover and wash it and I am a gardener who scatters lime to shrivel slugs." "If to this one you will not listen, then hear another argument. Perchance I do not love you. Would you win a loveless bride?" "Perchance you can learn of love, or if not, I have enough to serve for two."
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