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Updated: June 13, 2025
In passing this, one morning, I was amazed to see a hammock swinging from the hooks I had put in the two trees. This was a retreat which I had supposed no one else would fancy or even think of! In the hammock was a fan a common Japanese fan. For fifteen minutes I stood looking at that hammock, every nerve a-tingle. Then I glanced around. The spot had been almost unfrequented since last summer.
You put a medium in a dark place and she will set your soul's nerves a-tingle." Under all this banter Serviss perceived the pulse of an interest which laid hold on the most secret hopes and fears of the youngest and shook the eldest with an elemental dread and longing. It was as if the flood-gates of a sea of doubt and wonder had been turned in upon a dozen minds hitherto as well kept as lawns.
And it seemed to his fancies, set a-tingle in the early dawn freshness, that the rising sun, ancient symbol of youth and vigor and hope with triumph's wings, was coming to meet him. At this period of the day, especially when he rides and is alone and the forests thicken all about him, man is prone to confidence.
But mind, no more prancing to-night; we must both go to bed." Neither of them did so, however. Sandy went to his room and sat in his window, watching a tiny light that flickered, far across the valley, in the last bend of the river before it left the town. His muscles were tense, his nerves a-tingle, as he strained his eyes in the darkness to keep watch of the beacon.
To be in a place where gold could be picked up! where they might all become fabulously wealthy! where the ground might be seen covered with the precious yellow metal! this was enough to set the nerves of any one a-tingle! Tom could hardly realize it at first.
If you have, bring it down with you when you come." "Yes, godmother," answered Betty, over the banister, blushing until she could feel her cheeks burn. She was all a-tingle at the thought of her godmother seeing her verses. She wanted her to see them, and yet, she couldn't take down her old ledger for them all to read and criticise.
Never had he expected to run a real, snorting locomotive, dragging a long line of cars, and the realization that he was actually controlling the speed, set him a-tingle with delight. Crowding in behind Bob, the engineer kept watch of the track, but not so closely that he could not observe and enjoy the boy's pleasure.
"'Tis true. We have been far in the West, and I could not escape. Good Providence has now brought my rescue and you, Monsieur! Oh! tell me that it has brought me safety, and also a friend that it has brought me you!" With every pulse a-tingle, every vein afire, what could the young gallant do? What but yield, but promise, but swear, but rage? "Hush!" said Mary Connynge, her own eyes gleaming.
"Good-night," he added, for the third time; and went out leaving Roy electrified; a-tingle with the hope of success at last. Tara was not forgotten; though Dyán had been trying to pretend she was even to himself. Ten chances to one, she was still at the core everything; even his present incongruous activities....
Her hand rested upon mine as she leapt to the ground, the tiniest velvet-soft ounce-weight that ever set a man's blood a-tingle. "I did not know " said she. "Faith, madonna!" said I, "no more did I till this. I deduce but now that the Marquis of Falmouth is the person you discoursed of an hour since, with whom you hope to enter the Castle of Content."
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