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As for Brenton, it's a mere case of burbling genteel platitudes in a marvellous voice. Even I, though I deplore the platitudes, find my own gooseflesh rising in response to his larynx. It's a tremendous asset to a man, that!
Again and again the hand appeared, sprinkling powder in the brazier, until the smoke clouded the atmosphere with its fluent, eddying coils. The gooseflesh that had pricked out on Amber's skin subsided, and his qualms went with it. "Greek fire burning in a bowl," he explained the phenomenon; "and a native with his arm wrapped to the wrist in black is feeding it. Not a bad effect, though."
"At my age one has learnt to avoid not only such intimacies but many others less disagreeable, but which at moments might give one what I can only call mental gooseflesh. Is that aloofness?" "I think it would probably be called so by some." "By whom?" "Oh, by mental gooseflesh-givers!" She laughed, laughed quite out with a completeness which had something almost of youth in it.
But with the book put away there had come to him a wonderful plan a plan that made his bony little spine gooseflesh: He would rub Barber's old kitchen lamp! Seldom used, it stood on a cupboard shelf beside the clock. Fairly holding his breath, he got to his feet and crept across the floor.
Only this time he sent twenty men to fetch him. There was so nearly a fight that the skin all down King's back was gooseflesh, for a fight at that juncture would have ruined everything. At the least he would have been made a hopeless helpless prisoner. But in the end the mullah's men drew off snarling, and before they could have time to receive new orders or reinforcements, King's die was cast.
Just at present they were not rich, although he had borrowed when he left so as to leave them some money. And Walter Schnaffs wept when he thought of all this. At the beginning of a battle his legs became so weak that he would have fallen if he had not reflected that the entire army would pass over his body. The whistling of the bullets gave him gooseflesh.
Nina had taken off her coat and was wearing a dress as summery in appearance as the garden. "All right, Auntie. This ought to be lovely I hope gooseflesh and a blue nose won't show." The picture taken, she lost no time in getting back into her long fur coat again and wrapping it tightly around her, still shivering.
Yes, she would no, she wouldn't yes no. It gave me gooseflesh, I assure you. If she spoke, I should have to build up my life anew, the whole scaffolding was destroyed. Would the footman come in time? Yes no there he is. But Beautrelet will unmask me! Never! He's too much of a flat! Yes, though no there, he's done it no, he hasn't yes he's eyeing me that's it he's feeling for his revolver!
And yet to my fearful perceptions there may be pleasures that cannot exist for the accustomed and jaded senses of the tinman. Could he feel stimulus in Hugo's description of Paris from the towers of Notre Dame? He is too much the gargoyle himself for the delights of dizziness. Quite a little could be said about the creative power of gooseflesh.
The change to Devonshire had not suited me; my health gave the excellent Miss Marks some anxiety, but she was not ready in resource. The dampness of the house was terrible; indoors and out, the atmosphere seemed soaked in chilly vapours. Under my bed-clothes at night I shook like a jelly, unable to sleep for cold, though I was heaped with coverings, while my skin was all puckered with gooseflesh.
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