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He was forced to open his mouth and gasp for breath, so deep was his draught of that young wine, romance. Yonder somewhere in the breath-taking radiance danced his Queen with all her Court about her. Queen and Court, thought William, and nothing less exorbitant could have expressed his feeling. For seventeen needs only some paper lanterns, a fiddle, and a pretty girl and Versailles is all there!
So far from breaking, the gale as the doctor had called it, although in reality it was a hurricane got worse steadily; with only a lull now and then, as though for breath-taking, and then a fiercer rush of wind before which the ship would reel and shiver, while the grinding of her iron frame and the crunching of her wood-work made a sort of wild chorus of groans and growls.
As for Betty, after one breath-taking minute when all the blood in her body seemed to rush to her head, she simply sat there and tried in the second that was given her to think what to do. Almost automatically, she wrenched the wheel around, nearly capsizing the boat with the sudden turn.
On the opposite bank, staring down into the rapids with a terrible intentness, stood a man, or something that resembled a man. In one awful, breath-taking minute they realized that here at last was the "Thing." As they watched, the hunched-up crouching figure on the opposite bank made a lumbering movement forward as though about to throw itself into the water at the foot of the falls.
You may march the country roads in maiden meditation, fancy free, by field and farm, for no dog will plunge out at you from unsuspected gate, with breath-taking surprise of ferocious bark, notwithstanding it is a Christian land and a civilized. We saw upward of a million cats in Bermuda, but the people are very abstemious in the matter of dogs.
He recalled what Mrs. Tweksbury had said about the type being the ideal of man or something like that and Cameron, whom he had just met a few weeks before, had apparently got into action. After Nancy came Doctor Martin it was as if the male element surrounded the girl. She was rather breath-taking and radiant. She wore a coral-pink satin gown, very short and narrow.
They were the simplest sort of peasant people who had hardly stirred from their little Surrey hamlet until that meteoric brother of theirs had summoned them on their breath-taking voyage to America, and for whom now, on this little Long Island farm, New York might have been almost as far away as London. Mrs.
The door swung shut in their faces with a hiss of compressed air. The Hawk closed the face-plate of his helmet and rapidly spun over the controls. Another hiss, and the outer door moved wide. He stepped with force into space. The panorama below him was breath-taking: Earth seemed almost to hit him in the face. He had not realized it was so close.
A stretch of sandy shore, an in-rolling, white-crested wave with a limitless beyond. To the wood-environed mind of the girl this picture was simply a breath-taking fairy fancy. It existed, such a thing as that. Gaston had sworn it, but it was incomprehensible.
It came to him with a breath-taking shock that her face lacked a certain vivacity of meaning; that its sweetness was perhaps too placid; that there would have been a deeper goodness in it had there been any hint of daring. Astonishing questions assailed him, startled him: could it be true that, after all, there might be some day too much of her?
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