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Now, Sir, tell the gentlemen of the jury what you saw on entering the defendant's room, on this particular morning. Come; out with it, Sir; we must have it, sooner or later. 'The defendant, Mr. Pickwick, was holding the plaintiff in his arms, with his hands clasping her waist, replied Mr. Winkle with natural hesitation, 'and the plaintiff appeared to have fainted away.
Cyprus had indeed been a favored land in those early days; for the Holy Spirit had commanded by a revelation that Barnabas and Paulus should set sail for Cyprus to preach the new faith at Salamis; and they had taken with them Marcus their own San Marco! it was so written in this strange, old book. "Tell me about him!" Caterina cried, clasping her hands eagerly: "what did he do in my land?"
Descending, therefore, swiftly to the parlour, and clasping the young man in his arms, he exclaimed, with looks and gestures that denoted the perturbation of his spirit: 'Jonas. My child she is well! There is nothing the matter? 'What, you're at it again, are you? replied his son-in-law. 'Even with me? Get away with you, will you? 'Tell me she is well then, said Mr Pecksniff.
It was so strangely, suddenly a reminder of the look of secret understanding given me with good night, twenty- four hours earlier, by the man whose sanity was Miss Elliott's topic, that, puzzled and almost disconcerted for the moment, I did not at once reply to the lively young lady's question. "You're hesitating!" she cried, clasping her hands.
Daily the restless men who have no occupation in life present the appearance of being rather busy. Daily Volumnia has a little cousinly talk with Sir Leicester on the state of the nation, from which Sir Leicester is disposed to conclude that Volumnia is a more reflecting woman than he had thought her. "How are we getting on?" says Miss Volumnia, clasping her hands. "ARE we safe?"
He pulled out a number of wads of tissue paper. When he finally reached a piece of silverware, he turned the box upside down and shook out the remainder of its contents upon a sample table. "Oh, Mr. Perlmutter," Mist Cohen exclaimed, clasping her hands, "what a beautiful bonbon dish! What a lovely wedding present!"
Now you need a guide, or even two or three of them, in order to find the way. If your mother were still alive, you would run back to her to hide your face in her lap. But she is dead, and if I were as proud as you, before clasping the sustaining hand of another mortal I would first try whether one would not be voluntarily extended from among the Olympians.
Charles tried to take the creature off, Sedley tugged at the chain fastened to a belt round its body, but the monkey held tight by the curls on the lady's forehead with its hands, and crossed its legs round her neck, clasping the hands so that the effect of the attempts of her husband and his cousin was only to throttle her, so that she could no longer scream and was almost in a fit, when on Peregrine holding out a nut and speaking coaxingly in Dutch, the monkey unloosed its hold, and with another bound was on his arm.
There were captains who went down with their ships, generals who died fighting for forlorn hopes, patriots, kings, nuns, monks, men, women, and children all with that light in their eyes which brightens with splendor the dreams of men. And as he came down off the throne the great ones crowded round him, clasping his hand and saying "Be one of us, Edred. Be one of us."
He folds his hands, eh? thin, waxen hands, clasping in piety upon his counterpane, eh? He will wear the air of a thin saint and bless me in a beautiful voice? Am I right? Am I right?" She forced her questions into his face, leaning forward in a quick violence. "Goodness knows!" said O'Neill. "I shouldn't wonder." She nodded at him with tight lips. "I know," she said. "I know. I have him by heart."
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