United States or Russia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"She looked like an angel, layin' there," he reminded himself, his eyes eloquent. "She's too blamed good for that sneakin' dude." He came upon the ruined boot, and memories grimmed his lips. "It's busted like my dreams," he said, surveying it, ripped and rotting. "I reckon this is as good a place as any," he added, looking around him.
But he did not fear it; it grimmed his lips, it made his eyes blaze with a wanton, savage fire; it filled his heart with a bitter passion to slay the man who had stayed behind at the Double A ranchhouse.
His lips grimmed as his gaze swept them. He dismounted and went to them, one after another. He stooped long over one. "They've got Weaver," he heard a voice say. And he started and looked around, and seeing no one near, knew it was his own voice that he heard. It was dry and light as a man's voice might be who has run far and fast. He stood for a while, looking down at Weaver.
She writes, June 9, 1838, "A month elapsed before I stepped into the woods which were all around me blooming with flowers. I did not go to Mr. Dwight's ordination, nor have I yet been to meeting. He has been to see me however, and though I left my work in the midst and sat down with a dirty gown and hands somewhat grimmed, we were high in the blue in fifteen minutes." Mr. Dwight was Rev.
I was trying to change my gun to the other hand, when I dropped it. I didn't seem to be able to get it again just then." He grinned. "Lucky you came, Shorty," he added jocosely. Shorty's lips grimmed. "I reckon it's lucky I'm here right now!" he said shortly. "You're hit bad, Lawler!"
They were grazing unconcernedly. Scattered along the bottom of the defile were the men who had fallen at the first fire, and Sanderson's eye glinted with rage when he looked at them; for he recognized some of them as men of the outfit for whom he had conceived a liking. Two of Williams' men were lying there, too, and Sanderson's lips grimmed as he looked at them.
Returning to her from the edge of the lake, with cloths wrung out of cold water, he found her with wide eyes and flushed cheeks. "Send him away! Send him away!" she muttered. "I cannot have him near me!" At first he thought her mind wandered, but following the direction of her eyes, he saw the figure of a man skulking among the trees; and his face grimmed.
Word Of The Day