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And Arjuna also, desirous of capturing the Sauvira king, slew five hundred brave mountaineers fighting in the van of the Sindhu army. And in that encounter, the king himself slew in the twinkling of an eye, a hundred of the best warriors of the Sauviras.
"No, she can't," said Ian, trying to look stern, but breaking into little twinkling smiles at the mouth corners. "She can't, because the moles' stockings haven't any more got holes!" and he pulled something from his blouse and spread it in my lap, Richard doing likewise. There were two stockings mended, fearfully and wonderfully, to be sure, and quite unwearable, but still legally mended.
Frank sprang up lightly, just as Tad Horner grappled him by the hair with both hands and yelled: "Break away!" Roland Ditson was at Diamond's side in a twinkling. "Come, come, old man!" he whispered; "get up and get into the game again! Don't let them count you out!" But the Virginian was gasping for breath, and he did not seem to hear the words of his second.
They needed no second bidding, for each man grasped the situation instantly, and in a twinkling there was a veritable pandemonium. Shouting and scrambling like a band of madmen, they lurched to the door, whirled it open, and went flying down the staircase to the kitchen and so to a discovery which none might have foreseen.
Fanner Field received Ned and Dick with an air of gruffness that was belied by twinkling blue eyes and, when Ned had finished telling his story and offered to pay for the chicken, said: "Did you take that chicken out of my poultry-house?" "Not exactly, but it's the same thing. We knew about it and helped eat it." "Was it tender?" asked the farmer.
We anchored pretty near to the shore, and, though dying of famine, each got a tranquil sleep. On the morning of the 8th of July at break of day, we took the route for Senegal. A short while after the wind fell, and we had a dead calm. We endeavoured to row, but our strength was exhausted. A fourth and last distribution was made, and, in the twinkling of an eye, our last resources were consumed.
There was, in the entire aspect of the room, something very grim and dreadful. An atmosphere of tragic mystery enveloped the most commonplace objects; and sinister suggestions lurked in the most familiar appearances. Especially impressive was the air of suspense of ordinary, every-day life suddenly arrested cut short in the twinkling of an eye.
His fellow-students were bent on a night's pleasure at a dancing-garden then in vogue, where there would be twinkling lamps and merry music under the May moon. The lamp-lit parterres, the joyous waltzes, had no attractions for Gustave Lenoble.
"Won't you let us take him into our car where it is warmer and take care of him?" "That nuisance of a pup?" demanded the conductor, yet with twinkling eyes that belied his gruffness. "I know he's yapping his little head off." "Then let us have him, sir, do!" begged Nan earnestly. "Take him into the Pullman, you mean?" "Yes, sir, we'll take the best care of him," promised Nan.
"My son," said he, "what a man you are to do such surprising things always in the twinkling of an eye; there is not your fellow in the world; the more I know, the more I admire you."
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