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And Elma answered with bated breath, in almost inarticulate tones, "Don't you see? Don't you see, mother? Just look at the judge! It's himself! It's Sir Gilbert!" And so indeed it was. Against all hope, he had come over. At the very last moment a telegram had been handed to the convalescent at Spa: "Fallen from my horse. A nasty tumble. Sustained severe internal injuries.
"Yes, she did, Ruth," Blue Bonnet insisted. "I heard it, too." "You did?" "Yes shh there! You heard it then, didn't you?" All admitted that they did hear some sort of a sound and sat with bated breath. "It's a rat or a mouse! Oh, see there it goes look, behind that big brown trunk!" The appearance of Fraulein accompanied by Miss North could scarcely have caused greater confusion.
FROM the period of this shogun the strength of the Bakufu began to wane steadily, and the restoration of the administrative power to the sovereign came to be discussed, with bated breath at first, but gradually with increased freedom. It is undeniable, however, that the decline of the Tokugawa was due as much to an empty treasury as to the complications of foreign intercourse.
It is now more than fifteen years since this country was following with bated breath the judicial investigation of the charges against Captain Dreyfus for treason in having sold secrets of the French War Office to Germany.
To sit still with folded hands and bated breath, to possess her soul in patience as best she may, to still the wild beatings of her all too eager spirit that is what a woman has to do, and does often enough. God help her, all too badly.
He rowed across what he believed to be one-half of its width and drew into the reeds. The sound and movement awoke many creatures, which hurried away in the dark, and something slid off into the river with a splash. The lapping of the ripples sounded like a drinking beast. Kenkenes put a bold foot on the soggy sand and stepped out. Rachel followed him with bated breath.
She rose at once, and without effort, to her original state, the honoured daughter of an illustrious house. The homeliest welcome that greeted her from some aged but unforgotten villager, the salutation of homage, the bated breath of humble reverence, even trifles like these were dear to her, and made her the more resolute to retain them.
And when in his desperate pain and fury, maddened by the poison working within, he drags Iago to the front of the stage, and holding him by the throat speaks Shakespeare's meaning, if not Shakespeare's words, thick and fast, as if he were not an actor, but Othello himself, and while his audience listen with bated breath and quick-beating hearts, he hurls him to the ground, and in the uncurbed fury of his mood raises his foot to spurn him like a dog, then he rises far above ordinary dramatic effect: his art does "hold the mirror up to Nature."
To an enemy bated or dreaded to the uttermost mortal capacity, that well- fortified and opulent city might have held out for months, and only when the arms and the fraud of the foe without, and of famine within, had done their work, could it have bowed its head to the conqueror, and submitted to the ineffable tortures which would be the necessary punishment of its courage.
In this manner I had wandered on for perhaps a quarter of an hour, when my fingers came into distinct momentary contact with what felt like cold and humid human flesh. I shrank back, unnerved as I already was, with a murmur of affright. 'Zaleski? I whispered with bated breath. Intently as I strained my ears, I could detect no reply.
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