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The two are seen last on the deck of the vessel, in perusal of a medical pamphlet composed of statistics and sketches, traceries, horrid blots, diagrams with numbers referring to notes, of the various maladies caused by the prolonged prosecution of that form of worship. 'But can they suffer so and live? exclaims the Rajah, vexed by the physical sympathetic twinges which set him wincing.
It is for the same reason, also, that Russians can swallow, without wincing, bumpers of brandy which would kill a Provencal outright: and that the Swedish Government has no end of trouble to keep the country people from converting into brandy the corn that ought to go to the miller; whilst the Mohammedan Arabs accept without difficulty that precept of the Koran which forbids the use of wine and spirituous liquors.
I removed it for him, and he always walked with his head much more erect than he needed to do ever afterward. Both men and women submit to an operation without wincing, or any of that shouting which caused young students to faint in the operating theatre before the introduction of chloroform. The women pride themselves on their ability to bear pain.
He was talking about you a little while ago, and so admiringly. It brought the tears to my eyes. Oh, I am so glad, Ian, that our friendship has always been so much on the surface, so 'void of offence' is that the phrase? I can look at it without wincing; and I am glad. It never was a thing of importance to you, for I am not important, and there was no weight of life in it or in me.
"He means that you're to be a painter and naught else, though how a man can choose to daub paint when there are swords to be carried well, well," he pulled himself painfully to his feet, wincing at gouty twinges, "I will go and see your father about " "Mais, Colonel Hall, dites! How can I arrange not to lose this pearl among artists?"
"Especially the latter," interrupted Bill, more hurriedly than before. "The Colonel says he was chief witness, and swore the charges right straight through, without wincing. The Judge Advocate, they said, was a right clever gentlemanly fellow, but ignorant of law, and completely at the disposal of the General.
"I guess not," replied Oh-Pshaw, wincing with the pain, "though it hurts like fury. I guess it's just skinned." Sahwah bound up the two places that were bleeding the most with her handkerchief and Oh-Pshaw's and was gently replacing the stocking when her ears caught a sound a noise like the humming of a giant bee. "What's that noise?" asked Oh-Pshaw. "It's an aeroplane," said Sahwah.
Squeers caught the boy firmly in his grip; one desperate cut had fallen on his body he was wincing from the lash and uttering a scream of pain it was raised again, and again about to fall when Nicholas Nickleby, suddenly starting up, cried 'Stop! in a voice that made the rafters ring. 'Who cried stop? said Squeers, turning savagely round. 'I, said Nicholas, stepping forward.
"The jewels, according to Don Pedro, are of immense value, and so could have been got rid of easily. Random was satisfied with those." "Don't talk of him in that way, as though his guilt was certain," said Hope, wincing. "Well, you must admit that the evidence against him is strong." "But purely circumstantial." "Circumstantial evidence has hanged many an innocent man before now.
O, believe me, I feel the ridicule, the vast abuse of language," he added, wincing, "but even a principulus like me cannot resign; he must make a great gesture, and come buskined forth, and abdicate." "Ay," said Gotthold, "or else stay where he is. What gnat has bitten you to-day? Do you not know that you are touching, with lay hands, the very holiest inwards of philosophy, where madness dwells?
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