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Truxton King ground his teeth with rage and despair while she was breathlessly repeating the suave compliments that oozed from the lips of the tormentor. "He laughed when I demanded that he should restore me to my friends. He chided me when I pleaded and begged for mercy. My questions were never answered.
Even as they dug their spades turned up mingled blood and clay, and when they came to the corpse of the Hundeprest, they found it fresh as on the day he died, but with a terrible wound in the body, from which the blood still oozed away. With horror they bore it out of sight of the monastery of which he had been so unworthy a brother.
As we oozed along the overgrown trail, dripping still with last night's rain, drops would alight upon our necks and trickle down our backs. A wet spine excites hunger, if a pedestrian on a portage, after voyaging from sunrise, needs any appetizer when his shadow marks noon. We halted, fired up, and lunched vigorously on toasted pork and trimmings.
And besides, deny having molested her nose, as he might, the aspect of the member itself bore abundant testimony of rough usage and a narrow escape to say nothing of the crimson drops, that seemed to have oozed therefrom, and fallen upon good Mistress Pettit's neck-handkerchief.
Near noon that day, and within a few miles of the North Fork, we rounded an alkaline plain in which this deadly creek had its source. Under the influence of the season, alkali had oozed up out of the soil until it looked like an immense lake under snow.
The rock was bluish black, spattered with maculations of a ruddy sanguine tint, as though drops of blood had oozed out, in places, from its stony heart. "I remember Mrs. Meadows telling me that story," he said to Keith. "Isn't her villa at the back?" "The very place.
All that I had, which was little, oozed out of me when we came to the first dead horses and the first dead men, and passed the tumult of our guns firing out of the mud, and heard the scream of shells. I hated it all with a cold hatred; and I went on hating it for years that seem a lifetime.
"Ain't she a likely filly," mused the love-sick Sheriff. "If there's anybody that could make me good, it's her. I'm all in. If ever I get the nerve all at once darn me if I don't ask her right out." But Slim's courage oozed as quickly as it had arisen, and with a sigh he followed his companions to the wedding. What God Hath Joined Together
The officer, a thin young man with a cigar, was standing in the shade of a palm. "Mister," said Jack timidly, for somehow all the fight had oozed out of him, "Mister, they're looting my house up there!" "Well?" said the officer. "I'm an American," said Jack. "Well?" said the officer. Jack regarded him helplessly. "Can't you do nothing for an American?" he asked.
Then his timidity returned, and beset by anxious fears, he walked silently by his uncle's side. Pietro was in his most jocund mood that morning, jauntily swinging his cane, joking about the Rialto as they crossed it, and talking a great deal about London and Paris. His companion's courage gradually oozed away.
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