United States or Cocos Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Brookes which he could in any way connect with this wild utterance; moreover, as the young lady looked like a tigress, and walked fiercely up and down the room, he became more than ever convinced that he had got a bad case in hand and acted accordingly. Looking at D'Alton he shook his head, which Mrs. Brookes perceiving, she shook her head in turn, and, taking out her handkerchief, wept copiously.
A tigress with two cubs lurked about the Kutkumsandy pass, and during two months killed a man almost every day, and on some days two. In fact, the communication between the Presidency and the upper provinces was almost entirely cut off. The government, therefore, was induced to offer a large reward to any person who killed the tigress. She was fired at, and, adds Mr.
Columbine's face was burning red; her eyes literally blazed. Her whole body vibrated as if strung on wires. "How dare you?" she said, and showed her white teeth with the words like an angry tigress. He looked down at her, a faint smile in his blue eyes. "But I don't drink alone," he said in such a tone of gentle explanation as he might have used to a child. She stamped her foot.
"Shall I break my oath of constancy, becoming faithless, and suffer him to curse me, for he will never pardon me, but despise me!" She sprang up like a tigress, with her eyes flashing. "Oh," cried she, "he may even believe that I have been enticed by riches, by a brilliant future! No no! I cannot consent! May God have mercy on me if the king will not! I will not break my oath!
"There is a chance, though," she said, with a fierce joy, "that Lem Lindsay, if he is alive, 'll git th' bullet that he earned that day. Joe Lorey's livin' that's Ben's son an' he well, maybe, some time ah, he can shoot as straight as anybody in these mountings!" The look of a young tigress was on her face.
"Sir," said she, with a subjugated air, "will you be so good as cut up the meat small, and pass it to me a bit or two at a time." He was surprised, but obeyed her orders. "And if you could make me talk a little? Because, at sight of the meat so near me, I feel like a tigress poor human nature! Sir, I have not eaten meat for a week, nor food of any kind this two days." "Good God!"
And yet there were blockade-runners-a few, a very few, thank Heaven-who were but a set of human vultures, preying upon their fellow-beings, and who, for a sum of gold, would lend their hand to any deed of darkness. To this latter class belonged Joe Haralson, the well-known captain of the Tigress, the most successful blockade-runner on all the southern coast.
I would rather kill myself with a weapon or throw myself from the top of a hill or enter into a blazing fire than live with a sorry wretch like thee, forsaking my husband Rama, like a tigress under the protection of a jackal!" Tard-mrigam. Formerly Prajapati, assuming the Form of a deer, followed his daughter from lust, and Rudra, armed with a trident, pursued Prajapati and struck off his head.
Glynde had then, like a diminutive tigress, stood up boldly before her awesome lord and master, saying such things to him that the remembrance of them made her catch her breath even now. From that time forth the Rector was allowed to hold forth on symptoms to his heart's content, to take down from his library shelf a stout misguided book of medical short-cuts to the grave, but nothing more.
It's sixteen days down, with The Tigress. The South China will be dropping to a dead calm, and I want to use canvas as much as I can. You simply can't get good oil down there, so I must husband the few drams I carry." "What a life!" "No worse than yours." "But I'm a poor man. I'm always shy the price of the ticket home. You're rich.
Word Of The Day