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The tone of the utterance made it a command. "So help us God our Seigneur, and San Giovanni!" the knights answered him in a breath, nerving themselves to attack and success: but they came silently and with no sounds of battle by order of their chief not knowing whether to expect welcome or conflict, or whether secrecy might be well.
"Duane," she said, "it occurred to me just now that you might have really mistaken what I said and did the other night." She hesitated, nerving herself to encounter his eyes, lifted and levelled across the top of his paper at her. He waited; she retained enough self-command to continue with an effort at lightness: "Of course it was all carnival fun my pretending to mistake you for Mr. Dysart.
The precious and enlarging associations connected with such works, which bind successive generations of men together with ties of memory and reverence, stimulating the imagination to new conceptions, and nerving the will to large efforts, have nothing to cling to here.
"The windows are all lighting up, and you'll have the whole town here inside of five minutes." There was indeed the sound of shouting in the street, and a little group of compositors and pressmen was forming in the hall below and nerving itself to action.
That would mean the practical destruction of German economic life. It is something far more vital to the mass of Germans than any question of Belgium or Alsace-Lorraine. It is, therefore, one of the ideas most potent in nerving the overstrained German people to continue their fight. Why are we, and why are the German people, not given some definite assurance in this matter?
Cousin Ephraim knows a thing or two. He says he always callated you were cut out for a fine lady." "Bob," said Cynthia, nerving herself for the ordeal, "did you tell Cousin Ephraim you had seen me?" "I told him and Ezra that I had been a constant and welcome visitor at this house." "Did, you tell your father that you had seen me?" This was too serious a question to avoid. "No, I did not.
"Were you lef you' hat, 'Sieur Frowenfel'?" he asked, and stole an artist's glance at Clotilde, while Joseph straightened up, and nerving himself to a tolerable calmness of speech, said: "I have been struck with a stick of wood by a half-witted person under a misunderstanding of my intentions; but the circumstances are such as to blacken my character hopelessly; but I am innocent!" he cried, stretching forward both arms and quite losing his momentary self-control.
"By Allah, O my lord," she replied, "nor is it easy to me either, but Need hath its own law, as the poet said, "Stay! grant one parting look before we part, * Nerving my heart this severance to sustain: But, an this parting deal thee pain and bane, * Leave me to die of love and spare thee pain!" "Yes," said Nur al-Din.
She did not turn her face toward her lover; but she drooped her head and clenched her hands tightly together upon her knees, nerving herself for the blow. The movement, slight though it was, stirred Chayne to pity and hurt him with an intolerable pain. It betrayed so unmistakably the long habit of suffering. She sat silent, motionless, with the dumb patience of a wounded animal.
Although she was not one to shrink beneath it like the small bird of the woods, she had to say within herself many times, 'I shall see Captain Dartrey to-morrow, for a recovery and a nerving.
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