Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: April 30, 2025
He conceives the delusion that beneath the bark lives a wood nymph, and he would feel with his hands the palpitant flesh of the goddess, he would trucidate the Dryad, violate her in a place unknown to the follies of men. "He is jealous of the woodman who can murder, can massacre, the trees, and he raves. Tensely he listens and hears in the soughing wind a response to his cries of desire.
Writhing and crawling, loathesomely palpitant with an unspeakable exuberance of foul and repellent vigor, possible only to such meteorological conditions as obtained there, it threw its most hideously prolific growths against that radiant wall in vain. The short, zig-zag lanes, the ways, and the seven-pointed areas were paved with a greenish glass.
Fred read this sentence over and over again. To what purpose did Ginger discuss him with Mrs. Hilmer? ... Surely not altogether in the name of entertainment. Meanwhile, summer died, hot and palpitant and arid to the end. And autumn came gently with cool, foggy mornings and days of sunshine mellowed like old gold.
Perhaps because of this they felt secure, at leisure, acquiescently allowing the event to develop as it needs must, or perhaps realizing the significance of the discovery to the young strangers, their palpitant eagerness to gauge its result, their dread of reprisal, of forced renunciation of their booty, the Indians permitted themselves a relish of the torture of an enemy on a more aesthetic scheme than their wont.
Fortunately the incandescent light of the aurora increased now and then a ribbon of light, palpitant with every color of the rainbow, was flung across the sky. Ootah lifted his harpoon lance the sky was momentarily flooded with light he struck. In the next flare he saw the bear lying on the ice his lance had pierced the brute's heart.
They look large and near and palpitant; as if they moved on some stately service not needful to declare. Wheeling to their stations in the sky, they make the poor world-fret of no account. Of no account you who lie out there watching, nor the lean coyote that stands off in the scrub from you and howls and howls.
For an instant it seemed to hang palpitant on dead center, then shot out like a hound unleashed, ventre-a-terre, Brooklyn miles away over the hood. It seemed but a minute ere they were thundering over the Myannis bridge. A little further on Maitland slowed down and, jumping out, lighted the lamps.
You know how I feel about: you!" This was the principal point Maggie had been maneuvering toward. Before her was the most difficult scene of the many which she had planned, on her successful management of which the success of everything seemed to depend. Within she was palpitant with the strain and suspense of it all; but on Barney she held cool, appraising eyes.
He never seems to have been caught and fascinated by the problem offered by the eyes and features of a male or female. He places masks or splendid commonplaces upon frames palpitant and vibrant with vitality in pleasure or in anguish.
And if the spur that brightened her eyes and quickened her laughter was, after all, nothing more nor less than a hot contempt for herself for the stolen moment in the hedge-gap and the inexplicable impulse upon which she had all but acted following it her merriment was none the less a palpitant thing.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking