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Updated: June 24, 2025
But when the spasms passed he lay back more easily, and a faint smile flitted over his face as he looked at the white men. "Been expecting that," said McKay. "Might loosen that ligature now just a few seconds.... Tighten it! All right." Alter watching the sick man a little longer he added: "Now I'm going to eat and smoke. Feel like taking a drink, too, but guess I won't.
Each bridesmaid had been presented with a bracelet, like a snake with ruby eyes; but Vera, fingering hers with fidgeting petulance, seemed to have managed to loosen the clasp, and when arranging her dress for the evening thought that her snake had escaped. Upstairs and downstairs she rushed in hopes of finding it.
She had fought desperately, primordially, when she had learned that her errand of mercy was nothing more than a cruel hoax. "Oh, but he shall pay, he shall pay!" she murmured, striving to loosen the bars with her small, white, helpless hands.
He was conducted to a wigwam, where a council-fire was lighted, and an interpreter opened the subject, by placing the amount of the ransom offered, and the professions of peace with which the strangers came, in the fairest light before his auditors. It is not usual for the American savage to loosen his hold easily, on one naturalized in his tribe.
When she saw those silver things all laid out wrongly, the brushes pointing this way and that, the combs fixed in them with the teeth upwards, the bottles of perfume laid on their sides instead of standing erect, the powder-boxes upside down, she felt ready to cry her eyes out. And no one to take away her hat, to loosen and brush her hair, to get her out of her gown, to unlace her shoes!
And yet she hesitated to loosen the fastenings of her door and look out upon the thing below. But it must be done. She steeled herself and untied the rawhide thong that secured the barrier. She looked down and only the grass and the flowers looked up at her.
The object of the profuse perspiration to be attained is twofold To cleanse the blood of impurities; and to loosen the dead scales of the epidermis, or scarf-skin, that spreads itself everywhere over the true skin or cuticle.
The fight is to all intents and purposes over; the primitive view of the world has gone forever and Christianity is in the throes of the effort to loosen itself from it, as a swimmer tries to free himself from the embrace of a corpse which would drag him down.
"Aw, Cis!" he murmured fondly. "Oh, Johnnie, I want a drink! I'm thirsty!" He pulled at his hands. But Big Tom had done his tying well, and Johnnie could not even loosen one of them. "I wish I could bring you some water," He answered.
The consequence was that, neither daring to loosen his hold in order to strike an effective blow, each had to devote all his energies to throw the other, in which effort they wrenched, thrust, and swung each other so violently round the room that chairs and tables were overturned and smashed, and poor old Hitchin had enough to do to avoid being floored in the melee, and to preserve from destruction the candle which lighted the scene of the combat.
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