Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: September 11, 2025
He seconded his words with an effort so sudden and unexpected, that he freed Rashleigh from my hold, and securing me, notwithstanding my struggles, in his own Herculean gripe, he called out "Take the bent, Mr. Rashleigh Make ae pair o' legs worth twa pair o' hands; ye hae dune that before now."
She sunk upon her knees as she spoke, and her lips murmured and parted as if in prayer, while the tears tears of gladness streamed warmly and abundantly from her eyes. The rage of the outlaw grew momently darker and less governable. The white foam collected about his mouth while his hands, though still retaining their gripe upon hers, trembled almost as much as her own.
Jack never tamely suffered the intrusion of strangers; but such a stranger as this was beyond all patience; he seized him, shook him; the poor monkey squealed, the Italian bawled out for his companion, and Jack's mistress rushed to the window and rescued the unfortunate creature, just time enough to save him from Jack's final gripe.
"My father takes the Communion," said he, half to himself. "At least, it is a beautiful old " Howsoever the sentence would have been finished, Tom stopped short "Hey? What does that mean?" "At last?" gasped Frank, gently enough. "Excuse me!" He was bowed almost double, crushing Thurnall's arm in the fierce gripe of pain. "Pish! Hang it! Impossible! There, you are all right now!" "For the time.
The hand on the horse's muzzle is that of Caspar the gaucho, the fingers that grope to get a gripe on the rider's neck being those of Cypriano. It is a crisis in the life of the young Tovas cacique, threatening either death or captivity.
The gripe of Mr. Leach, whose fingers almost entered the flesh of his arm, and a hand pointed towards the bushes on the other side of the opening, silenced the captain's whisper, A human form was seen standing on the fringe of the bank, directly opposite the jib-boom.
Impatiently he threw on the table, one after another, the baubles once hoarded perchance with the tenderest respect, till at length his eyes sparkled, and with a nervous gripe he seized upon an old ring which was inscribed with letters, and circled a heart containing hair. The inscription was simply, "W. B. to Julia."
What refuge then when a man feels himself powerless in the gripe of some unseen and inevitable power, and knows not whether it be chance or necessity, or a devouring fiend to wrap himself sternly in himself and cry, "I will endure though all the universe be against me"? How fine it sounds! But who has done it?
And I kist not Mine Own; but stood there, very shaken and desperate, and gript her fast unto me, scarce heeding the hardness of my gripe; and alway I lookt unto the way of the coming of the Sound. And presently did unbare my wrist where the Capsule did be.
His trousers also were in almost as bad a state. In hauling him in, when his head was over the gunnel, one of the men had seized him by the seat of his trousers to lift him into the boat, and the consequence was, that the seat of his trousers having been too long set upon, was also left in his muscular gripe.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking