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None of them are smoking, though several are sucking vigorously at empty pipes; and the rapacious light that glares in every eye as Saxham mechanically knocks out the ashes from his smoked-out briar-root against the side-post of the entrance is sufficient witness to the pangs that they endure.
Tom strolled about the room, his lower lip hanging down, bestowing glares of different intensity upon every individual and object present, and even making a threatening motion with his foot towards the baby, who had crawled about the floor until it was weary and fretful and was uttering plaintive cries from time to time.
What do you let her come in here for, to confound me and make me curse the day she was born! Away! I say, away!" Horrified, and unable to restrain the impulse that moved me, I sprang to my feet and rushed upon the scene. The picture that met my eyes glares at me now from the black background of the past.
He was taking notes in shorthand with a sort of savagery between his tense and concentrated glares at the scrimmage that was then massed in the centre of the field.
A young American girl smiles vaguely at it; an Englishman glares, expressionless, at it through an eyeglass, with a sort of cold inquiry 'Oh! is that all? he might say; a German begins at Paradise at the upper left-hand corner, and works his way through the details to hell below, at the right.
Two or three words exchanged without much thought one figure disappearing out of the landscape and, lo! all the prismatic colours have faded from the horizon, and blank daylight glares upon startled eyes!
There and then for the first time did Maltravers press upon that modest and blushing cheek the kiss of Love, of Hope, the seal of a union he fondly hoped the grave itself could not dissolve! Queen. Whereon do you look? Hamlet. On him, on him, look you how pale he glares! Hamlet.
Rows of white-washed houses of the same pattern are to be seen here and there in the only street it boasts of, and scattered through the broad open fields are other residences of more or less importance. All the long summer days the sun glares down so hotly upon the dried straggling fences and the dusty village road, that scarcely a living creature animates the scene.
The law of gravity doesn't work that way. At least, it didn't when I met it last." "Certainly!" says Piddie. "I had not thought of that. It couldn't have been dropped. Then it must have been driven by some careless golfer." He's some grand little suggester, Piddie is. Old Hickory glares at him and snorts.
Then they took my arms, wondering at the sword with its wondrous hilt. Only my ring mail byrnie they could not take from me, as they feared to untie my arms. "Not much would I give for your life if this warrior got loose," said one of them to that one who had the letter. "See how he glares at you." And true enough that was, moreover.
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