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The horseman delivered one last vicious cut with his whip and came on at a canter. 'My father! He reigned back ten yards and dismounted. The old man was off his pony in an instant, and they embraced as do father and son in the East. Good Luck, she is never a lady, But the cursedest quean alive, Tricksy, wincing, and jady Kittle to lead or drive. Greet her she's hailing a stranger!
I can't be told to my face that I have failed to do my duty by Blanche. No, Sir Patrick! I can bear a great deal; but I can't bear that. I have a sensitive an unduly sensitive nature, dear Sir Patrick. Forgive me for wincing when I am wounded. Forgive me for feeling it when the wound is dealt me by a person whom I revere." Her ladyship put her handkerchief to her eyes.
Mr. Macready revived Massinger's fine play with considerable success, but both the matter and the manner of our dramatic ancestors is too robust for the audiences of our day, who nevertheless will go and see "Diane de Lys," by a French company of actors, without wincing. Of Mrs. Siddons's Mrs.
Yet, he professed not to have prejudices in such matters, but to use any word that would serve his turn, without wincing; and he certainly did use and defend words, as undisprivacied and disnatured, that made others wince.
Captain Stuart and Captain Demeré, who had gone instantly to the tower in the block-house by the gate, on the report of a strange, distant light, saw her as they came down, and both paused, Demeré wincing a trifle, preferring not to meet her. She was standing beside one of the great guns and had been looking out through the embrasure.
The man regarded him with a steady scowling scrutiny for near a minute, his surly lips apart, his hands thrust into his pockets. Frank, who could speak the truth with as clear and beautiful a brow as ever was seen, could not help wincing a little under the old fellow's slow, sullen, suspicious observation. "Boy," said the man, without taking his hands from his pockets, "you're a lying to me!"
The Captain seized the book without wincing, and displayed a remarkable equanimity of countenance as he held it out, according to direction.
It cut his understanding like a knife to see a man turn a handle for hours and nothing come of it. However, one day, from a sense of duty, he forced himself into the labor-yard and walked wincing down the row. "These are our schoolmen," said he. "As the schoolmen labored most intellectually and scientifically practical result, nil, so these labor harder than other men result, nil.
I have a manuscript-book still, filled with these youthful efforts. I even undertook to put German verse into English verse, not wincing at the greatest Goethe and Schiller. These studies were pursued in the pleasant days of cloth-room leisure, when my work claimed me only seven or eight hours in a day.
"Here, quick, look out!" cried Mark at that instant, for, wincing from seeing the dressing of his father's wound, he had unscrewed one of the little side-lights and was looking over the calm sunlit sea, when he caught sight of a prau gliding along from the Petrel's bows, and it was evident that she was coming to attack simultaneously from the stern. "Hah! that's it, is it!" said the major.
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