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Updated: June 3, 2025
A jailer stood reclining against the dock-rail, tapping his nose listlessly with a large key, except when he repressed an undue tendency to conversation among the idlers, by proclaiming silence; or looked sternly up to bid some woman 'Take that baby out, when the gravity of justice was disturbed by feeble cries, half-smothered in the mother's shawl, from some meagre infant.
There came first a half-smothered oath and then a sob, and he walked about the room, and struck the table with his fist, and rubbed his bald head impatiently with his hand. "Nora," he said, "I thought you were so different from this! If I had believed this of you, you never should have come to England with Emily." "It is too late for that now, papa."
"Oh, Antip!" cried he in a miserable voice, "I did say to you the other day the day before yesterday that perhaps you were not really Pavlicheff's son!" There were sounds of half-smothered laughter at this. "Now, that is a valuable piece of information, Mr. Keller," replied Gania. "However that may be, I have private information which convinces me that Mr.
You stay in there and think till mornin', and we'll have it for breakfast." Silence actual silence for a moment. Then Azuba asked, in a half-smothered but much humbler voice, "Oh, Labe! WON'T you let me out?" "Sure thing if you've thought up that supper for me and Cap'n Dan'l." "But I did so want oh, if I could only tell you!
As she passed him, his back was turned, and her muslin dress swept within reach of his spur, which caught the delicate fabric. She impatiently jerked the dress to disengage it, but it clung to the steel points, and a long rent was made in the muslin. With a half-smothered ejaculation, she tried to wrench herself free, but the dress only tore across the breadth from seam to seam. Dr.
Other men had flattered her, and she had smiled, knowing what their compliments were worth, but she could not smile now. Then she roused herself and went in quietly. Festing met her next morning while the sun rose above the rounded masses of the beech wood, and entering a dewy pasture they skirted a fence half-smothered in briars.
It is generally thickly coated with dust, but the brass plate affixed to a pillar of the doorway is quite legible. These, and a few fragments of carved stone that lie half-smothered in long grass and weeds at a short distance from the railed-in stone, are all that remain of the cathedral that existed in the time of Henry II.
Was it necessary, really necessary, Rufus?" Venner turned upon him with a half-smothered snarl of contempt. "Bah! You'd be afraid of your own shadow, Garside, if left alone with it," he sneered, between his white, even teeth. "Necessary of course it was necessary! Otherwise, I should not have adopted the ruse. We are about to attempt a big game an infernally big game!
A half-smothered laugh from some of the band who did not care much for their chief, rendered Stalker furious. He sprang forward with a savage oath, drew the small hatchet which he carried in his belt, and would certainly then and there have brained the rash youth with it, if his hand had not been unexpectedly arrested.
Suddenly, he met Fothergill's eyes, and with a half-smothered cry he flung himself all along upon the grass and hid his face. "Fothergill! is she much hurt?" cried Latimer. "Is it serious?" The other did not look up. "I cannot tell," he said, "but I believe she is killed." Latimer uttered a cry: "No! no! For God's sake don't say that! It can't be!" Fothergill made no answer.
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