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Nor was he in the mood to submit to them. "Don't be a fule, sis. I'm tired dog tired. I'm sick, too. I believe somethin's broken inside me." He pushed her on one side and hurried into the room. "Come in an' shut that gol-durned door," he cried, without turning, as he made his way to the rocking-chair. He dropped into it, his face contorting hideously with the awful pain the process caused him.
"I'll try," said Charley, "but it is hard work, Jacques, to keep from laughing; I feel like a high-pressure steam-engine already. There's a woman standing out there with a little brown baby on her back; she has quite fascinated me; I can't keep my eyes off her, and if she goes on contorting her visage much longer, I feel that I shall give way." "Hush!"
So profound was the silence in the room that the regular tick of the watch was distinctly audible in all parts of it. Suddenly Giovanni began to quiver. A violent convulsion followed, shaking him from head to foot and fearfully contorting his face, his hands curling up like a strip of paper that has been scraped with a knife. His condition was frightful to behold.
She took her six-shooter she was still deadly afraid of Hank Brown and she got her muff that matched the neck fur. Her eyes blazed whenever she looked at them. "Marion, listen to reason! You can't go out in this storm!" Kate began to whimper. "Will you please shut up?" Marion whirled on her, primitive, fighting rage contorting her face. "I can go anywhere I like.
The woman was dancing, contorting her body in the small circle of light formed by a flickering lanthorn which was hung across the street from house to house, striking the muddy pavement with her shoeless feet, all to the sound of a be-ribboned tambourine which she struck now and again with her small, grimy hand.
On our first entrance, she looked cheerfully at us, and showed herself ready to engage in conversation; but suddenly, while we were talking with the century-old crone, the poor actress began to weep, contorting her face with extravagant stage-grimaces, and wringing her hands for some inscrutable sorrow.
The official went skidding and slithering six feet through the mud, clutching at nothing and contorting himself in a frantic effort to keep from sprawling in the muck. By a margin thin as an eyelash he succeeded in preserving his balance and stood where he stopped, amazement and anger in his face. "Lay off that stuff!" growled Tim, head forward and jaw out.
That England may be spared the spasms, cramps, and frenzy-fits now contorting the Continent, and threatening Ireland, I earnestly pray. With the French and Irish I have no sympathy. With the Germans and Italians I think the case is different; as different as the love of freedom is from the lust for license." Her birthday came round.
When I went dar I didn't hev a rag ter my back nary a rag, an' now jes see how I'se covered wid 'em!" There was a laugh from the crowd in which Berry joined heartily, rolling his eyes and contorting his limbs so as to show in the completest manner the striking contrast between his lank, stringy, meanly-clad frame and the full, round, well-clothed form of Nimbus.
'Yes, sir, she does, said Sarah, contorting her face to keep back the tears. 'She looked at him, and has hold of his hand. I think she will die easier for it, poor dear. 'And at least the poor child is alive to be baptized? 'O, yes, sir, it seems a bit livelier now, said Sarah, opening a fold of the flannel in her arms. 'It is just like its poor mamma.
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