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He could feel hands and feet gripping and treading on him, but they did not seem to be human, for there were too many of them. Also they were very cold. He gave himself up for dead and thought of Barbara. Then something flashed into his mind. In his hand he still held the revolver. He pressed it upwards against the thing that was smothering him, and pulled the trigger.
Not much heed was given to this careless talk, the soldiers, before leaving the chamber of Grotius, having satisfied themselves that there were no apertures in the chest save the keyhole, and that it would be impossible by that means alone for sufficient air to penetrate to keep a man enclosed in it from smothering.
And then, with equal force, came the absurdity of it to McKay. A woman! He swallowed the lump that had risen in his throat, and tried to laugh. A WOMAN out in that storm a thousand miles from nowhere! It was inconceivable. The laugh which he forced from his lips was husky and unreal, and there was a smothering grip of something at his heart.
But send a forest fire across those smothering strata of vegetable decay; give once more a chance for every root below to meet the sun above; for every seed above to reach the ground below; soon again the barren will be the fertile, the desert blossom as the rose. It is so with the human mind. It is ever putting forth a thousand things which are the expression of its life for a brief season.
Slowly the tug rose against its shoulder, was lifted onward, poised; and then with a swift forward thrust the wave broke, smothering the pier and lighthouse beneath tons of water. A low, agonised wail broke from the crowd.
Occasionally there came a stifling cry that made me jump, inwardly if not outwardly, but those women had their drama to play, and they played it to the end. Miss Bentley came hospitably to the door with us, and waited there till she thought we could not see her turn and run swiftly up-stairs. "Why did you stay, my dear?" I groaned. "I felt as if I were personally smothering Mrs.
And if we meet anyone, Zoraida, you'd best think back a few minutes before you start anything." There was no one in the patio and they went through swiftly and out at the far side into the garden. Kendric filled his lungs with the sweet air that was beginning to grow cool. The glitter of the stars was to him like a hope and a promise. Never had he been so sick of four walls and a smothering roof.
But I thought I'd try this way. Maybe, if she doesn't see me for a year...." "There's nobody ahead of you, anyway," Maurice said, absently. "Well, I don't know," John Bennett said again. His voice was so harsh that Maurice's preoccupation sharpened into uneasy attention. Johnny's hopes and fears had not really touched him. His encouraging platitudes were only a way of smothering his own thoughts.
Yes, he richly merited all that came to him." "Have you thought what a terrible death he died? Have you thought of him entombed alive, beating with his bare hands the stone walls within which he knew he must die, suffering the most frightful tortures that a human being may know? Have you thought of him smothering for want of air, his throat parched, his head bursting, his mind deranged?
He was an easy-going man and had learned to bide his time. Wharton pulled a stool alongside the woman's, smothering her hand in his. 'Then you do care for me, and will take me away? Her face seemed to reflect the peace of this man, against whom she might draw close for shelter. 'Dear, don't you remember what I said before? Of course I-' 'But how can you? the wash-up? 'Do you think that worries?
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