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He remembers pulling out his watch to make a note of the hour, and, while thus occupied, the straining cords, growing tenser every moment, suddenly took charge of the experiment and burst the balloon of their own accord.
She felt an expectancy of something lovely, moving, new to her, which grew tenser and tenser, as though her nerves were the strings of an instrument being pulled into tune for a melody. Standing there in the cold, rainy twilight, she had a moment of the exultation she had thought was to be so common in her Endbury career.
He paused and wiped his eyes.... Finally, breaking down altogether, he turned away and hid his face.... I do not suppose that there were more than a dozen persons in that hall who understood anything of the language in which he spoke. Certainly it was the merest gibberish to that whole army of listening men. Nevertheless, with every word that he uttered the emotion grew tenser.
Thirty-five deputations of two each are sent ahead into all the villages to be visited by Him. What an intense campaigner was Jesus! He was thoroughly, systematically stumping the whole country for God. As He approaches nearer to the Jerusalem section the air gets tenser and hotter.
He was glad when the final curtain rang down and he was able to take her arm and guide her out. "Maxim's next?" he inquired. "Do you want to go?" she asked. "It's for you to decide," he answered. She was dead tired by now, but she did not dare to stop. "All right," she said; "we'll go." It was a harlequin crowd at Maxim's a noisier, tenser, more hectic crowd than at the Riche.
The silence growing tenser, Colonel Dearman said encouragingly but firmly: "Do something, Captain Rozario". Captain Rozario did something. He drew his whistle. He blew it. He replaced it in his pocket. Seven obliging volunteers darted forward to retrieve it. "May we expect the evolutions this evening, Colonel?" inquired General Murger politely.
"Now what do you propose?" "I can try to do without Hannah again " "That will be hard on all of us. But I guess you'll have to." "So it seems." "But unfortunately that won't he enough." Edith's face grew tenser: "I'm afraid it will have to be just now I've had about all I can stand for one night!" "I'm sorry," Deborah answered. For a moment they confronted each other.
The lines of his marble-white face seemed to have grown tenser and firmer, his manner was the manner of a man who meets a crisis. "Turn your head and look inland," he said. "You follow the lane there?" Arnold nodded. "Quite well," he admitted. "At the corner," Sabatini continued, "just out of sight behind that tall hedge, is my motor car. I want you to land and make your way there.
The hand which held that deadly, assailing weapon small, slim, very feminine, curving from somewhere behind the bed curtain belonged to some unseen person. He tried to shrink farther back upon the pillow. The hand followed him, displaying glimpses now of a soft, white-sleeved arm. He lay quite still, the muscles of his right arm growing tenser as he prepared for a snatch at those cruel fingers.
As the ship swept back to the rescue, her funnels sending out huge volumes of smoke which the gale beat down on the sea to leeward, the excitement grew tenser and tenser. Men dared hardly breathe; women wept and clasped their hands convulsively as they prayed. In the emergency boat the men sat like statues, their oars upright, ready for instant use.
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