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I should not feel safe under a tree, although that lightning is only sheet-lightning." Every perceptive faculty that Lionel Verner possessed was strained upon the spot. He could make out a tall man; a man whose figure bore unless his eyes and his imagination combined to deceive him a strong resemblance to Frederick Massingbird's. Had it come to it?
She was thankful for the opportunity of expressing her high admiration of a writer, whom, as she says, she regarded "as the social regenerator of his day as the very master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the warped state of things. . . . His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but both bear the same relation to his serious genius, that the mere lambent sheet-lightning, playing under the edge of the summer cloud, does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb."
Thrice the great cry rings rippling through the gray air, and over the green sea, and over the far-flooded shell-reefs, where the huge white flashes are, sheet-lightning of breakers, and over the weird wash of corpses coming in. It is the steam-call of the relief-boat, hastening to rescue the living, to gather in the dead. The tremendous tragedy is over! Out of the Sea's Strength
It is a pleasant way of shuffling off self-reproach and of excusing one's own fickleness. Edgar just now believed as he wished to believe, and shut out all the rest. As he lit his last cigar, sitting on the terrace at the Hill and watching the sheet-lightning on the horizon, he thought with satisfaction on the success of his life. Specially he congratulated himself on his final choice.
The girl paused an instant under a street-lamp she was only a girl fifteen or sixteen at most, though very tall, with a bright, fearless look then drawing her shawl closely round her, she flitted rapidly away. The innumerable city clocks tolled heavily eleven. The night was pitch-dark; the sheet-lightning blazed across the blackness, and now and then a big drop fell.
On which a shivering of eagerness, quick as winking sheet-lightning, shook Harris' right knee. Hogarth, meantime, having seen the chamber before him empty, in his headlong way had entered, and the guess now in Harris' mind was this: "It's a girl: a night out".... He hesitated, Hogarth being once within the house and lost to him, but after some minutes dared to follow.
As we left the deck a quivering gleam of sheet-lightning flashed up along the western horizon, and Ryan gave Pierrepoint who was taking the deck for me while I got my dinner instructions to keep a sharp eye upon the weather, as there was no knowing how it might turn out.
Gradually so gradually that its approach was scarcely perceptible the storm worked its way in our direction, the brighter glimmer and increasing frequency of the sheet-lightning alone indicating that it was nearing us, until just about eight bells in the dog-watch the first faint mutterings of distant thunder became audible, while the vast piles of sooty cloud that overhung us seemed momentarily to assume new and more menacing shapes, as the now almost continuous quivering of the lightning revealed them to us.
It suggests the policeman going his rounds. How the exile forced to sojourn here must detest this obtrusive beacon of the first class! It must become maddening in time for the eyes. Even in bed it has the effect of mild sheet-lightning. Municipality of Calais! move it away at once to a rational spot to the end of the pier, where a lighthouse ought to be.
That she would know in an instant what was the matter flickered from her eyes, from her trembling white lips; that she did know, even as she spoke, was apparent from the scorn and indignation which like sheet-lightning leaped out on him. "Arnold! For shame! Arnold! Think of Judith!"
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