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When Strann set his foot in the stirrup and gathered up the reins the black horse cringed and shuddered; it was not a pleasant thing to see; it was like a dog crouching under the suspended whip. It was worse than that; it was almost the horror of a man who shivers at the touch of an unclean animal. There was not a sound from the crowd; and every grin was wiped out.
Leslie and the ladies saw Ashton beside the inner door. He was striving to assume an air of easy assurance, but the doorknob, which he still grasped, rattled audibly. "You!" rasped Mr. Leslie. "What you doing in here skulking in here?" Ashton cringed back, all the assurance stricken from his face. "You you believe him!" he stammered. "But it's not fair!
Lydia braced herself. It had come, and it was worse than she could have anticipated. She cringed inwardly in remembrance; she wished she had not let Conroy make that pitying reference unreproved, uncorrected to Stoddard's being a rejected man. But perhaps they were bringing Gray in dead, after all she tried not to hope so. The auto became visible, a tiny dark speck, away up in the Gap.
O, ignorant! that with such a mission they should ever have cringed in the antechambers of ministers, or bowed before parliamentary committees! 'The Utilitarian system is dead, said Coningsby. 'It has passed through the heaven of philosophy like a hailstorm, cold, noisy, sharp, and peppering, and it has melted away.
As he sealed this he paused, while he felt the hair on his neck rise and bristle and a chill race up his spine. His heart fluttered, then pounded onward till the blood thumped audibly at his ear-drums and he found himself swaying in rhythm to its beat. The muscles of his back cringed and rippled at the proximity of some hovering peril, and yet an irresistible feeling forbade him to turn.
The face of the patriarch was dark with wrath, and he cried, in terrible tones, "Accursed of my race! This day thou hast severed the mightiest nation in the world. The blood of the brave Shoshone appeals for vengeance. May the water of thy tribe be rank and bitter in their throats." Then, whirling up an elk-horn club, he brought it full on the head of the wretched man, who cringed before him.
"There's no cream for your coffee," the girl apologized. "The milk soured. Mena was asleep, and I dassn't go down to the goats alone. Cochise has come back with all the bunch. Dad was cross not to get cream. He's cranky over his food." "You say those red devils are all down there?" The girl cringed. "Don't don't speak so loud. Cochise might hear you. He's stopped swearing.
His big, scaly, black hand closed on the boy's shoulder. Joel cringed under it. "Son, you've lied. What for?" Joel showed abject fear of his father. "He's gone on Lucy an' I seen him with her," muttered the boy. "An' you lied to hurt Slone?" Joel would not reply to this in speech, though that was scarcely needed to show he had lied. He seemed to have no sense of guilt.
Nothing thanks to you!" The dull red rose to his temples and he cringed visibly. "I I " he stammered. "One moment, please, and then I shall say no more. This is between you and your own manhood, not between you and your mother. I put no obstacles in your path you may go when and where you choose.
Who would call Webster the meanest of mankind because he had an absurd desire to live like an English country gentleman? In regard to sycophancy, a disgusting trait, I admit, we should consider the age, when everybody cringed to sovereigns and their favorites. Bacon never made such an abject speech as Omer Talon, the greatest lawyer in France, did to Louis XIII, in the Parliament of Paris.
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