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Updated: May 14, 2025
"I'm the only one, and mother yells blue murder when I talk about it. I want to go to Cuba. My uncle owns a farm down there." "Perhaps I can talk your mother over. I've been there." Joe was all interest. His dilated pupils became more normal, his restless hands grew quiet.
As the extremities of the toes have dilated discs for adhesion, showing the creature to be a true tree frog, it is difficult to imagine that this immense membrane of the toes can be for the purpose of swimming only, and the account of the Chinaman, that it flew down from the tree, becomes more credible.
She stood rigid, her eyes wide, her nostrils dilated a creature swaying upon the verge of an abyss, contemplating a plunge into space. "Maxine!" he said again. "Maxine!" It was the primitive human cry. She heard and acknowledged it in every fibre of her being; she drew a swift, sharp breath, then, with a free gesture, cast her arms about his neck. "Ned! Ned! Say again that you love me!
One glance, and the horror of death seemed to suddenly freeze the blood in his veins. His eyes dilated and seemed to nearly burst from their sockets. The face into which he gazed was that of Clinton Kendale, his cousin. "You!" he gasped, quite disbelieving the evidence of his own senses. Kendale laughed a diabolical laugh, while his features were distorted into those of a fiend incarnate.
Instantly Thursday Smith straightened up and looked at the man questioningly. Fogerty stretched out his hand and said, as if in wonder: "Why, Melville, old man, what are you doing here? We wondered what had become of you, all these months. Shake hands, my boy! I'm glad I've found you." Smith leaned against the press and stared at him with dilated eyes.
Men were white beneath the tan, and it was evident that some of the women would soon fall a-weeping. Children had crept close to their mothers under a vague sense of danger, and a girl in the choir watched the preacher with dilated eyeballs, like an animal fascinated by terror. "It is as a sword piercing the heart to receive this truth, but it is a truth and must be believed.
"Any proof?" inquired Doctor Bartholomew suddenly, stroking his beard, and arching his bushy eyebrows, as if trying to sympathize with his host's obvious half belief in the story. Nigel wheeled and faced him in the dim light. The pupils of his eyes were a trifle dilated. "Yes, so I understand. Short time back a chap went out fellow called Myers Will Myers.
"You Maraton!" There was a brief silence not without a certain dramatic significance to the girl who stood there with slightly parted lips. The smooth serenity of her forehead was broken by a frown; her beautiful blue eyes were troubled. She seemed somehow to have dilated, to have drawn herself up. Her air of politeness, half gracious, half condescending, had vanished.
"Not alive, you English brute!" he was heard to groan out, and, snatching free his wrist too swiftly to be prevented, he had gathered up all his remaining strength, and hurled himself over the side into the sea. I was but a dozen yards away from him, as he fell; and, as he rose again, it was for his dying eyes to fix with a glare upon me. They dilated with terror, as though he had seen a ghost.
His Majesty is warmly attached to his daughter, and the great distinction which he will bestow upon her husband to-day is given by no means least to please his own beloved child, though her mother was only a Jollanna van der Gheynst." Barbara had listened to these communications with dilated eyes, but the speaker was now interrupted; the leech, Dr.
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