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Updated: June 1, 2025
I studied the dreaded track and learned that in Bingo's language the half-terrified, deep-gurgled 'grr-wff' means 'timber wolf. These were among the things that Bingo taught me.
When Oliver reached the path he became aware that John Massey was leaning over the gate, grinning in half-terrified delight. The rain was beginning to fall steadily again as they came out into the lane and climbed into the car. It rained all of the afternoon, but ceased at nightfall, just in time, so Janet said, "to keep Mrs. Brown from nervous prostration."
This time the emotion was stronger than his will, and altogether overcame him. Arthur Lovell laid the insensible man flat upon his back on the carpet. Laura rushed to fetch water and aromatic vinegar from her dressing-room: and in five minutes Mr. Dunbar opened his eyes, and looked about him with a wild half-terrified expression in his face.
The waiter stood for a moment or two, looking in a half-terrified way upon the white, deathly face of Irene, and then fled from the apartment. No grass grew beneath his horse's feet as he held him to his utmost speed for the distance of two miles, which lay between Ivy Cliff and the doctor's residence.
But she retreated from him step by step, till she had regained her chair by the tea-table, and there she seated herself, safely, as she thought; but he was close to her, over her shoulder, still continuing his protestations, offering up his vows, and imploring her to reply to him. She, as yet, had not answered him by a word, save by that one half-terrified exclamation of his name.
For the first time in his life he found himself face to face with the root-questions of all thought 'What am I, and where? 'What can I know? And in the half-terrified struggle with them, he had all but forgotten the purpose for which he entered the lecture-hall. He felt that he must break the spell. Was she not a heathen and a false prophetess?
Gladys was surprised, as they slowly wended their way along a wide and handsome thoroughfare, past the closed windows of great shops, to meet many ladies finely dressed, some of them beautiful, with a strange, wild beauty, which half-fascinated, half-terrified her. 'Who are these ladies, Uncle Abel? she asked at length. 'Why are so many people in the streets so late?
I sealed you with that kiss. When will you come and see me?" "I can't come here, you know," Frida whispered, half-terrified; "for if I did, Miss Blake would see me." Bertram smiled a bitter smile to himself. "So she would," he said, musing.
Sit down, you blithering Dutch idiot, and let them go! They are playing into our hands," and then he whispered something in the captain's ears. Hendry looked into the supercargo's face with half-terrified, half-savage eyes. "I'm with you, Sam. Better that than be hanged for shooting a couple of niggers." "Just so, Louis.
A couple of glasses were always kept on the Peak, and the best of these was soon in his hand, and levelled at the ship. Bridget stood at her husband's side, eager to hear his opinion, but waiting with woman's patience for the moment it might be given with safety. At length that instant came, and the half-terrified wife questioned the husband on the subject of his discoveries.
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