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Updated: May 17, 2025
A man came slowly over the old stone bridge, and averting his gaze from the dark river with its silent craft, looked with some satisfaction toward the feeble lights of the small town on the other side. He walked with the painful, forced step of one who has already trudged far.
Every resonant quarter was anticipated up to the blow, without averting its murderous abruptness; and an executioner Midnight that sounded, in addition to the reiterated quarters, four and twenty ringing hammerstrokes, with the aching pause between the twelves, left them the prey of the legions of torturers which are summed, though not described, in the title of a sleepless night.
She threw some gentle rebuke into her glance, and turned it upon him. He met it with that same amiable absence of emotion that was always in his look. "Kate too short by itself?" he asked. "Aw righ'; make it Kate Ristofalo." "No," said Mrs. Riley, averting and drooping her face. "Take good care of you," said the Italian; "you and Mike. Always be kind. Good care." Mrs.
It seems most likely to me that it is the truth, Mackay. In that case her remark means that she believes his silence in a way is responsible for Werner's death." "Oh! If Shirley had taken you into his confidence, for instance ?" "I might possibly have succeeded in gaining sufficient evidence for an arrest, thus averting this tragedy. But it is only a theory of mine." I scowled.
He believed, also, in subordinate powers of good and evil; but, since his life was occupied more in averting danger and calamity, than in seeking safety or happiness, he paid far more respect to the latter than to the former he prayed oftener and more fervently to the devils, than to the angels.
If the Bee has so faithfully handed down her casual invention of a resin nest built inside a Snail-shell, then there is no denying that she must have just as faithfully handed down the means of averting the terrible danger of belated hatchings.
During the trip to Mexico to which reference has been made, Ned Nestor had succeeded in averting serious complications between the government of that rebellious republic and the government of the United States.
Nay, worse than penniless; you have done me the honour," and here the count, looking on the table, drew a letter from a portfolio emblazoned with his arms and coronet, "you have done me the honour to consult me as to your debts." "You will restore my fortune?" said the marchesa, irresolutely, and averting her head from an odious schedule of figures. "When my own, with your aid, is secured."
It cost him a great deal of trouble, but at last he succeeded. He fairly started when he beheld through the glass her figure which had acquired the semblance of bodily substance. But that figure was grey, as though covered with dust ... and moreover, the eyes ... the eyes still gazed aside, as though they were averting themselves.
They'd have " "I don't know," said Fanny, still averting her troubled eyes. "Things are so changed here, George. The other people you speak of one hardly knows what's become of them.
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