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Updated: May 11, 2025
"And yet it was a clean-cut death of that talker and his two companions you just executed " "An exception now and then," Dabnitz granted. "How do you catch them?" "We have a system at work for that purpose everywhere, especially in the hospitals. There isn't much temporizing when we get them." Peter Mowbray's skull prickled with heat and his face was cold with sweat.
The change didn't make much of a disguise, but they wouldn't be expecting him to show up so near where he entered. His skin prickled as he came out, but he fought down the sickness in his stomach. A few drops of rain were beginning to fall, and the crowd around the accident was thinning out. That might help him or it might prove more dangerous. He had to chance it.
Flowers had seemed to be had for the picking; now they were all thorned and prickled. But the golden flower within the crown of spikes seemed to her tenacious spirit all the fairer and more desirable. On reaching home Fleur found an atmosphere so peculiar that it penetrated even the perplexed aura of her own private life.
"You did not think of an examination?" "There was no need. I am perfectly certain as to the cause of his death." Suddenly Mrs. Brigham felt a creep as of some live horror over her very soul. Her flesh prickled with cold, before an inflection of his voice. She rose, tottering on weak knees. "Where are you going?" asked Henry in a strange, breathless voice. Mrs.
He would be so prickled with gooseflesh that he felt like Saint Sebastian; but he would take a look at the thermometer sixty-one in the shade! And such was the power of mercury and mind combined over matter that he would immediately chirk up and feel warm.
I had quite a struggle to get through Princeton." Wasn't Mr. Gilson contrasting Saxton's silk shirt with Milt's darned cotton covering, and in light of that contrast chuckling at Milt's boast and Saxton's modesty? Milt became overheated. His scalp prickled and his shoulder-blades were damp. As Saxton turned from him, and crooned to Claire, "More ham, honey?" Milt hated himself.
With short-handled hoes the grown people chopped out foot-long strips of plants. Dick and Rose-Ellen followed on hands and knees, and pulled the extra plants from the clumps so that a single strong plant was left every twelve inches. The sun rose higher and hotter in the big blue bowl of sky. Rose-Ellen's ragged dress clung to her, wet with sweat, and her arms and face prickled with heat.
And if they were got rid of wouldn't it only be exposing some other part of America, less watchful, less perhaps able to take care of itself, to the ripening and furtherance of their schemes, whatever their schemes might be? Even at that moment Miss Heap unconsciously felt that to let the Twinklers go would be to lose thrills. And she was really thrilled. She prickled with excitement and horror.
Now he saw that something sinister was intended. Some sort of lottery was about to be played with beans. "There are fourteen white beans," the young American whispered, "and one black one. We all draw. The man who gets the black bean dies this morning." The hair prickled on the Texan's head. Every morning these unfortunates were compelled to play a grim game with death.
Bock whined, growled, and pawed madly at the door. And then complete silence. My nerves were quite shattered by this time. I don't think I had been so frightened since childhood days when I awakened from a nightmare. Little trickles of fear crept up and down my spine and my scalp prickled. I pulled Bock on the bunk, and lay with one hand on his collar.
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