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Updated: June 19, 2025
What was his dismay to see Erwin's slender figure drooping nervelessly, his head sinking, and the emptied sheaf of bombs sprawling neglected in his lap! "You're hit, Orry? For God's sake buck up! I've still got to climb or they'll get us yet."
When in the evening Mandy came for Johnnie, she found the new mill hand white about the mouth with exhaustion, heavy-eyed, choking, and ready to weep. "Uh-huh," said the Meacham woman, "I know just how you feel. They all look that-a-way the first day or two then after that they look worse." Nervelessly Johnnie found her way downstairs in the stream of tired girls and women.
He was standing behind Bridget's chair, his eyes still gazing beyond the river. He did not notice that she leaned back suddenly, and her hands fell nervelessly to her lap. He felt a touch on his arm. It was Mrs Gildea, who had come out to the veranda again. 'Colin, she said, 'I want you to go and bring me my typewriter from the parlour.
Nothing is so pitifully ineffective as a flag in a dead calm, drooping nervelessly against the mast; and though, no doubt, by an ingenious arrangement of electric fans, it might be possible to make this flag flutter in the breeze, the very fact of its doing so would tend to set the audience wondering by what mechanism the effect was produced, instead of attending to the soul-struggles of Rita and Allmers.
A sudden fit of trembling took possession of him and he dropped nervelessly beside the bed with his hands outstretched and uttered a sob ending in a single syllable, "Cart!" For there on the bed still as the dead lay Mark Carter, his beloved idol, and he had helped to put him there! Thirty pieces of silver! And his dearest friend dead, perhaps! A Judas! All his life he would be a Judas.
He set down the candle on the table, and moved so that the light of it did not fall upon his face. She took his hands in hers gently. There was no response in his hands. They remained in hers, nervelessly. They felt almost like dead things in her hands. But they were not cold, but burning hot. "You have fever!" she said. She let one of his hands go and put one of hers to his forehead.
"He did so, and at sight of his scarlet face, the color deepening as he looked at it, he sank down nervelessly in a chair. "'My God! he said. 'I've got it. Don't come near me. I am a dead man. "Then the convulsions seized him.
You said it was here that you had wanted Aunt Polly's hand and heart all these years to make a home, and " An inarticulate cry came from the man's throat. He raised his hand and began to speak; but the next moment he dropped his hand nervelessly at his side. "The doctor, sir," said the maid in the doorway. Pollyanna rose at once. John Pendleton turned to her feverishly.
They knew you could hear what they said, and made the remarks purposely for your ear, in order to have a little sport. They never dreamed of your taking it so seriously." A deep groan heaved the bosom of Clara; her head fell back, and her body drooped nervelessly. Mrs. Mears extended her hands quickly and saved her from falling to the floor.
"Been heah a long time, thet cabin." "Me an' my pard was the first white men in these hyar hills," replied Slingerland. "He's gone now." Then he turned to Neale. "Son, you must be tired. Thet was a ways to carry a girl nigh onto dead.... Look how white! Hand her down to me." The girl's hands slipped nervelessly and limply from their hold upon Neale.
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