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I advanced alone, but not with my hands up. It is such an undignified position. I had that shivery feeling chasing up and down my spine which came from knowing that I was covered by a hundred rifles, and that if I made a move which seemed suspicious to the men behind those rifles, they would instantly transform me into a sieve. "Are you English?" the officer demanded, none too pleasantly.
It was a cloudy, moist, showery day, when I arrived; and this fire gave me the brightest and most hospitable smile, and took away any shivery feeling by its mere presence.
Huddled in the back of the cell where I personally put Tomba last night crouched this shivery little object, looking as if he expected to be called upon to face a firing squad." Captain Cortland had leaped to his feet, looking mightily concerned. "But, Mr. Ray, where is Tomba?" "I wish with all my heart that I knew, sir," replied the officer of the day, even more disturbed than his superior.
It was noted, though, that his angular form seemed to be somewhat shivery as he spoke, and that his teeth chattered like dice rattling in a box. "Natural phe-nothings!" burst out Pete. "The things, whatever they was, were as solid as you or me." "How was it they didn't make any noise, then?" inquired Ralph, practically.
She took a box of safety matches from a cigar-table, and kneeling, lighted the fire in the big chimney-piece. "I hope you don't mind," she said; "I'm shivery." She knelt on, watching the little flames grow into big flames, and spreading her hands to the warmth. Her face, arms, throat, and the front of her white dress became golden.
"Yes," said the young officer, who was quite aware that there were as yet many things connected with his duties he did not know. "Now I come to think of it, Sergeant, I do. We'll give you two hours, and then, if you don't turn up, ride over after you; it's condemnably shivery waiting for nothing here."
The obedient carpet started instantly, and the four children and one bird fell in a heap together, and as they fell were plunged in perfect darkness. 'Are you all there? said Anthea, breathlessly, through the black dark. Every one owned that it was there. 'Where are we? Oh! how shivery and wet it is! Ugh! oh! I've put my hand in a puddle! 'Has any one got any matches? said Anthea, hopelessly.
He wished he hadn’t come here, and then grew shivery to think that he might have happened not to; and all the while that awful twisting and wrenching at his heart was getting worse and worse. Married! Burnett came up just then with a man wearing a monocle and presented him to Denham, and forthwith handed the bony cousin to his safe-keeping.
The fingers of her right hand were slightly twisted, and there was a small spot on her arm. That was all. I guess she is dead, now." "But weren't you frightened? And weren't you glad to get away without catching that dreadful disease?" "Well," he confessed, "I was a bit shivery at first; but I got used to it. I used to feel sorry for that poor girl, though. That made me forget to be afraid.
Sylvia, too, bade Philip good-night, and his look followed the last wave of her dress as she disappeared up the stairs; then leaning his chin on his hand, he gazed at vacancy and thought deeply for how long he knew not, so intent was his mind on the chances of futurity. He was aroused by Sylvia's coming down-stairs into the sitting-room again. He started up. 'Mother is so shivery, said she.
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