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"The young rider, dreadfully mortified, could not induce the horse to leave his honorable position till the volunteers left for the town; but, to the great amusement of the bystanders, headed all their manoeuvres, prancing in true military style, as well as his stiffened limbs would allow him, much to the annoyance of the assistant, who did not feel very highly honored by Solus making a colonel of him against his will."
Raising my head from the pool of blood in which it had been weltering, and moving my stiffened neck with difficulty because of the dagger wound, the mark of which I carry to this day" upraising his chin, the fakir laid a finger on a tiny but palpable scar "I struggled to a sitting posture, and looked about in dazed bewilderment.
Irritating discourtesy inhered in the speaker's tone. P. Sybarite stiffened his neck. "To see Mr. Penfield," he returned firmly "of course!" "What Mr. Penfield?" asked the other, after a pause so transient that it was little more than distinguishable, but which to P. Sybarite indicated beyond question that at least one Mr. Penfield was known to his cautious interlocutor. "Mr.
"And you didn't tell anyone?" "Why, no; because I was afraid that if I told on him, I'd never be able to go out again." "And you, quite alone, could carry the pastor's body out of his room?" "I am very strong." "How did you arrange it that there should be no traces of blood to betray you?" "I waited until the body had stiffened, then I tied up the wound and carried him down into the crypt."
Imagine a mighty river of as great a volume as the Thames started down the side of a mountain, bursting over every impediment, whirled into a thousand eddies, tumbling and raging on from ledge to ledge in quivering cataracts of foam, then suddenly struck rigid by a power so instantaneous in its action, that even the froth and fleeting wreaths of spray have stiffened into the immutability of sculpture.
No, I didn't sit down and cry when I found out that I wasn't to have any friends in Byrdsville for the just cause of being too rich, but I stiffened my mind to bear it as a rich man's daughter ought to bear her father's mistakes in conduct.
"Wal, them men was talkin' about the loss of the old May Schofield, and one of 'em in particular allowed as how he didn't think it should have foundered when it did. What d'ye think of that?" Schofield had stiffened in his chair as though undergoing a spasm of pain. The sentences smote him between the eyes of his sensibilities.
"That is natural, perhaps, with an only child, left to him in such peculiarly sad circumstances. We must not judge him hardly for that," said little Mrs Ramsden, kindly. "Has the girl herself ever written to you before, may I ask, or is this her first communication?" Miss Briskett's back stiffened, and her thin lips set in a straight line.
But neither of us thought of that. I stormed like a fool. "What possessed you to stay in the tunnel or to follow me? I told you to jump for the cave!" "Well, I didn't!" Paulette stiffened as if she froze. "I hadn't time. I would have had to cross the tunnel. And I hadn't time to do anything but jump to you and Collins before your stuff blew up.
Though the position was horribly uncomfortable, he had all he could do to prevent himself from going to sleep, even despite the occasional screeches of the whistle. With an immense effort he stiffened himself upright. Jim was gazing down into the water. "It's going to moderate before long," he remarked, casually. Percy came wide awake in an instant. "How can you tell?
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