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Updated: June 20, 2025
Louisa, who understood the child, said: "'Ssh! Let him sleep!" And they talked in whispers. But Jean-Christophe, pricking his ears, gathered all the details of illness typhoid fever, cold baths, delirium, the parents' grief. He could not breathe, a lump in his throat choked him. He shuddered. All these horrible things took shape in his mind.
"What do you mean by that?" cried Claudet, pricking up his ears. "Nothing," muttered Julien, between his set teeth, "except that your fancied obligation of keeping me company ought not to prevent you missing a pleasant engagement, or keeping a rendezvous." "A rendezvous," replied his interlocutor, with a forced laugh, "so you think, when I go out after supper, I go to seek amusement. A rendezvous!
The mare sounded another friendly nicker when arranged beside him, and the black, pricking up his ears sharply, turned to her and proceeded to establish his friendship by licking her. So Felipe did not meet with difficulty from that direction; nor did he have trouble in the direction of the team-mate herself.
There's Miss Cameron's fortune quite l-l-locked up, three per cents and exchequer bills; why, it might have been a mil-mil-million by this ti-ti-time, if the good old gentleman I beg pardon old old nobleman, my poor dear friend, had been now alive!" "Indeed!" said Lumley, greedily, and pricking up his ears; "he was a good manager, my uncle!" "None better, none better.
For her the half-hour was over, her Pierre had gone; and it is not given to a man to look on a woman's grief save with a catching in the throat and a pricking in the eyes. It is so utterly terrible in its overwhelming agony at the moment, so absolutely final; one feels so helpless.
He held her still, and the point of the knife crept a hair's breadth closer to the life within her. A little more and it would have slipped into the skin it was pricking. "You could not do it," she whispered. Then he spoke. "I can do it." His lips were dry, his voice very harsh. "You have said that you know me for a man of my word.
Du Lhut coiled himself into a ball with his pipe between his teeth and dropped into a light sleep, pricking up his ears and starting at the slightest sound from the woods around them.
Presently the numbness in his knees changed to a hot, pricking throb. He tried to move his legs, but found he could not. Then a sudden thought sent the blood with a rush to his heart. Perhaps he no longer had any legs! He remembered to have heard of legless men whose phantom members caused them many uncomfortable sensations.
I went a little way on the road to Les Planches, and nothing could be more solemnly beautiful than the black pines pricking against the deep blue sky, and the golden light playing on the ferns and pine-stems below; before us, a vista of deep gorge and purple mountain chain, on either side the solemn serried lines of the forest.
Again the old woman's eyes were lifted and she peered into the depths of the fire. "I seed Zalie las' night! She come with hit." "With what?" Sister Angela had that peculiar pricking sensation of the skin caused by tense nerves. "With hit. Her young-un! That's what larnin' means to us-all. Hit! After that, nothin' counts one way or 'other. Zalie spoke in her vision clear like she was in the flesh.
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