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Updated: May 21, 2025
And the next instant she saw him cool, smiling, devilish saw him in violence; the next his bigness, his apparel, his physical being were vague as outlines in a dream. The white face of the padre flashed along in the train of thought, and it brought the same dull, half-blind, indefinable state of mind subsequent to that last nerve-breaking pistol-shot.
Presently the commander-in chief appeared in person in his pyjamas, twirling his moustaches, and listened to the increasing fusillade and cannonade directed against the outposts. The din and roar, judged by the din and roar of every-day life, may have been nerve-breaking, but to any one who had been so close to it for eighteen days it was nothing exceptional.
The quiet isolation and khaki desolation of jagged peaks and sandy slopes was nerve-breaking. You could see the thin lines of the wireless station and little groups of white bell-tents dotted here and there. Robinson Crusoe wasn't in it. Sand and flies and sun; sun and flies and sand. "Wot 'ave we struck 'ere, Bill?" "Some d -d desert island, I reckon!" "A blasted heath..."
"Oh," laughed the girl in some confusion, "I don't know that, but I hope I am not below the general average of my sex." "You are above it," he said with emphasis. "And I know that this, even for the bravest of women, must be rather a nerve-breaking walk." "I won't deny that I find it so," was the reply. "But I am sustained by an ideal." "Indeed?" he asked inquiringly. "Yes!
You're a paroled man, and you can't afford to have the chief get it in for you." It was just here that the three nerve-breaking years got in their work. I couldn't face the grafter down, and I confess it with shame I was horribly afraid. "How much?" I asked, and my tongue was dry in my mouth. "This is the first mont', and we'll let you down easy.
Now that the stress of nerve-breaking moments in the cabin was over, he no longer made an effort to preserve the veneer of coolness and decision with which he had encountered the chief of the Boulains. Deep in his soul he was crushed and humiliated. Every nerve in his body was bleeding. He had heard St.
There was no touch of paint upon her face, nor did she, with the exception of her anklets, wear loose jewels, or the ornaments which cause that nerve-breaking clatter so beloved by the Eastern woman, and so superlatively irritating to the Western ear.
And the consolidation brought necessary capital to us; without it, our railroad was bankrupt. It meant inestimable benefit to the country, to every prospector, miner, homesteader, who must waste nerve-breaking weeks packing his outfit through those bleak mountains in order to reach the interior.
Sometimes it is the most nerve-breaking thing to be found on the hundred acres of a golf course. The heart that does not quail when a yawning bunker lies far ahead of the tee just at the distance of a good drive, beats in trouble when there are but thirty inches of smooth even turf to be run over before the play of the hole is ended.
Frank made no reply save to wink tauntingly at the fellow. The next instant, with a nerve-breaking swish, the shining blade fell! A piece of ice was drawn across Frank's throat and a stream of warm water squirted down his back. It was most horribly real and awful, and for a moment it seemed that the knife had actually done the frightful deed.
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