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Beaufoy would hold good faith let it cost Beaufoy what it might. Stiffening himself rigidly he answered nothing. "Come, the message! I'll have it, though I rip it out of you. You won't answer? Then there is no help for it. Once!" and the point touched "twice!" and the point pricked "three times! Monsieur, you are a brave fool, but on your life do not stir. Grip him by the elbows, Jan.
In imagination he linked arms with two men already stiffening, one at the foot and the other on the summit of the San Vincent's bastion. "King's Own all friends in the King's Own!" he babbled as he retraced his way into the town. He had a firelock in his hands ... he was fumbling with it, very clumsily, by reason of his shattered fingers.
Heaven help this devil from getting his sword into your bowels." He had made the appointment with Strepp, of course, and as we walked toward the ground he looked at me very curiously out of the ends of his eyes. "You know ah, you have the honour of the acquaintance of Lady Mary Strepp, O'Ruddy?" said he suddenly and nervously. "I have," I answered, stiffening. Then I said: "And you?"
The officer was evidently wounded, though he did not seem to be bleeding, and the dust of battle had settled upon his blanched, stiffening face, like grave-mould upon a corpse. He was swaying in the saddle, and his hair for he was bare-headed shook across his white eyeballs. He reminded me of the famous Cid, whose body was sent forth to scare the Saracens.
For the past few minutes a change had been taking place in the bearing of Withers. It was as if, having recovered slightly from the terrific shock of his wife's death, he was gradually stiffening, gaining the strength necessary to withstand the swift volley of Bristow's questions. The questioner, sensing this alteration in the other, made his queries all the quicker and more peremptory.
As I told you once before, I am anxious to serve you." They met the brigade, Garnett riding at the head. "Good-day, Richard Cleave," he said. "We are all bound for Siberia, I think!" Company by company the regiments staggered by, in the whirling snow, the colours gripped by stiffening hands. There were blood stains on the frozen ground.
Her eyes were glazing, her limbs were stiffening; but when the rite was over and finished, she raised her gaunt figure slowly up, and her eyes brightened to a strange intensity of joy, as, with the gesture of her finger and the trance-like gleam of her eye, she seemed like one who watched the disappearance of some loathed and fearful creature.
The djins, stiffening their muscular legs, hold back with all their might the heavily loaded little cars which would run down by themselves if let alone, and that so rapidly that they would rush into empty space with my most valuable chattels.
Like contending chargers, forward they bounded at every stroke. Vigorously the voyageurs plied their paddles. Stiffening their arms and curving their backs, they bent the blades. Every muscle was strained. The sharp bows cleaved the lumpy water, sending it gurgling to the paddles that slashed it, and whirled it aside. On they went. Now Oo-koo-hoo's canoe was gaining.
Chiquita uttered a low cry. "You've done your work well, Don Felipe Ramirez," she said at length, suddenly straightening and stiffening as she faced him, the expression on her face changing to one of hatred and contempt. "It was no easy task to run you to earth, I'll admit," he retorted with the same sneering look of triumph on his countenance.
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