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There is a deep gulf to be gone through," she said, "a place of silence and terror, full of dumb, venomous monsters. There is an immense oak forest dark, dense, thorny, a place to be strayed in, a place to be utterly bewildered and lost in.
Once, when a child of three years old, she was bitten by a venomous serpent, and her life was saved only through the devotion of her black nurse, who sucked alike poison and death from the wound.
Comparison, comparison, continually and far more venomous than the foolish, feeble sort of stuff which is only Anglophobia and water; and yet Hooper hasn't the courage to speak out either it's a morbid envy of England that is afraid to declare itself openly and can only deal in hints and innuendoes. What can Lady Adela see in a fellow like that?
Probably the scheme was carried out in the evening when the building was nearly deserted. The killing influence reaches a corner far out of the direct line of the keyhole. Being near the radiator, that corner represents the attraction of warmth. Therefore, the invading force was some sentient creature." Dorr shuddered. "Some kind of venomous snake," he surmised. "Not a bad guess.
It's too late to alter that now, and if I can only make you see that there has been a mistake, and I'm not one of the venomous sort of reptiles after all, why, I suppose I must be content with that! He succeeded in giving Mark an uneasy impression that he had made a fool of himself.
A furious mumble from behind the fingers and a venomous flash from the Babbitt eyes were answers sufficient. "Oh, Jed," she pleaded, "what SHALL we do?" For the instant a bit of the old Jed came to the surface. His lip twitched grimly as he looked down at the crimson face above his own hand. "I ain't sartin yet," he drawled. "How do you start in killin' a a snappin' turtle?
She hovered between life and death for three months, attended by Monsieur Goddet, who was also attending Philippe. As soon as Philippe was able to hold a pen, he wrote the following letters: To Monsieur Desroches: I have already killed the most venomous of the two reptiles; not however without getting my own head split open by a sabre; but the rascal struck with a dying hand.
Ned, however, was close beside her, and whipping out his revolver he fired, blowing the head of the snake clean off. "Did the creature strike you?" demanded Ned anxiously. "No," answered Sibylla; "I was so startled at its sudden appearance and its malignant aspect that I darted back without giving it time to bite. Do you think the creature was venomous?"
Again, what was the influence this girl had seemingly exerted, under which the venomous creature had collapsed in such a sudden way? Whether he had been awake or dreaming he did not feel quite sure.
And you have got a nasty eye, Scud. You'd better go and bathe it well in cold water." "Cheap enough too, if we're done with our old friend Flashey," said East, as they made off upstairs to bathe their wounds. They had done with Flashman in one sense, for he never laid finger on either of them again; but whatever harm a spiteful heart and venomous tongue could do them, he took care should be done.
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