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Updated: June 17, 2025
Yes, nonsense, she could see that herself; yes, a fool, he had impressed her as such; but still the stupid words beat and throbbed in her heart, as gruesome as masqueraders in comic masks would be should they knock at your door at any other time save during Carnival! "If you will wait, signora, in less than half an hour he is sure to be here. Che! What am I saying? In a quarter of an hour.
The ancients were in this respect wiser than we, for they did not associate all this phantasmagoria of gloom with the death of the body partly perhaps because they had a much more rational method of disposing of the body a method which was not only infinitely better for the dead man and more healthy for the living, but was also free from the gruesome suggestions connected with slow decay.
Suppose he'd been after somebody's jewels, and found that they were after him, and he'd locked one door, and could get away by the other." The answer was simple. "He'd clear out," thought Mike. Two minutes later he was in bed. He lay there, tingling all over with the consciousness of having played a masterly game, when suddenly a gruesome idea came to him, and he sat up, breathless.
But beyond this practical interest, he had a great curiosity about the nature of fear, and a great dread of it, too. He was afraid that in some last adventure, in which death came slowly enough for him to recognize it, he might die like a terror-stricken animal, and not bravely, as a man should. We did not often discuss these gruesome possibilities, although this was not Drew's fault.
Every convenience is at our disposal and if our patients do not recover rapidly it will be because their condition is desperate." She had just come on deck after a long and trying session in assisting Doctors Gys and Kelsey to care for the injured, a session during which Beth and Patsy had also stood nobly to their gruesome task.
In the privacy of my own room that night, after I had parted from the major, I gave my most careful consideration to the suggestion which he had thrown out; and despite the gruesome fate of the Dutchman, Van Raalte, at the hands of the Mashonas, which my host had hinted at rather than described, the project decidedly appealed to me.
A poor simile! when it is my own and not another's breath that I want. Nothing in nature, only gruesome German stories will fetch comparisons for the yoke of this Law of yours. It seems the nightmare dream following an ogre's supper. She was not acting the shiver of her frame.
In the town of Lincoln, in England, there exists to this day, as one of its show places, the famous "Jew's House," associated with the gruesome legend of "the boy of Lincoln" a child, it was whispered, sacrificed by the Jews at one of their pastoral feasts.
I didn't expect to get on such a gruesome subject when we started out. By the way, speaking of killings, I expect to make a neat one to-day on this cup-winners' match." "How? I didn't know there was much betting." "Oh, but there is; and I've picked up some tidy odds against our friend Carwell. I'm taking his end, and I think he's going to win." "Better be careful, Gerry.
Everybody liked Stephen, and it always would be so. "I used to hear some people say that the Devil is walking on the earth, though we do not see him, and whispers to us what we should think and do. If it is true, I don't know, but that he was with me that time and gave me bad, gruesome advice, is sure. Only he could have told me that.
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