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He unbuttoned and removed her shoe, and as he firmly pressed the foot and ankle, she flinched and sighed. "I think there are no bones broken, but probably you have wrenched and sprained the ankle, for it is much swollen already. Now, little girl, I must go back for some assistance.
"How many are there?" thundered the voice and Olof saw the whip raised above his head. "Nine or ten, perhaps," he answered. "More! And what do they mean? Can you tell me that?" "No." "No? Then let me tell you, that you may know henceforward. The first...?" "I I don't know." "You know well enough. Bright eyes that is the first." He flinched involuntarily as under the lash.
His face had the rather ghastly look of sunburnt faces from which emotion has driven the blood; and his eyes, always so much the most living part of him, were full of such stabbing anger, that involuntarily they all looked down. "I want to speak to you alone," he said to Lady Casterley. Visibly, for perhaps the first time in her life, that indomitable little figure flinched.
But but I think I'd rather stay. I made dad a promise once I'd hate to break it now." "Your father didn't like us, I understand. I'm sorry. And of course you feel that you should keep your promise to him. Well, I can send a convoy with you to Bismarck." "We haven't a cent. You see, I'm counting a heap on my garden." "Oh, we would get something together for you." She flinched.
He had just passed through in ordeal that would have tried the nerves of the bravest man, and he had scarcely flinched; but to stand there a witness of his uncle's deadly peril, believing himself powerless to aid him, was indeed enough to strike terror to his heart. "O, if I only had my rifle, or one of my pistols!" cried Frank, "wouldn't I tumble that villain in a hurry?
They had a ceremony called the Straw Dance, in which children were forced to maintain a stately and measured step, while bunches of loose straws tied to their naked bodies were lighted and allowed to burn slowly away. Any poor little creature who flinched or "broke step" was sorely punished and held in disgrace.
They were under fire from six in the morning until 1:30 in the afternoon, with strict orders not to return the hail of lead, and not a man in those dusky ranks flinched. Our brigade was instructed to move forward soon after 1 o'clock to assault the series of blockhouses which was regarded as impregnable by the foreign attaches.
In the alehouses which he frequented, they often placed long needles in the cushions of the chairs, in such a manner that he could not fail to pierce himself when he sat down. The result of these experiments tended to confirm their faith in his supernatural powers. It was asserted that he never flinched.
When all men flinched, then he felt sure he alone would know how to deal with the spurious menace of wind and seas. He knew what to think of it. Seen dispassionately, it seemed contemptible.
It was when he thought of his young wife and his daughter that he flinched. 'Twould go hard with them, who had been gently nurtured. "Do women and children go, too?" inquired Parish, brusquely. "There are women and children there," came the swift reply. "We seek to lay foundations of permanence and without the family we build on quicksand."
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