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"Are you still alive?" he exclaimed. "What brings you here?" "My lord here will tell you," answered Kaschta as he made way for Pentaur to enter the cave. The poet went up to the black man, and the light of the fire which burned in the cave fell full on his face. The old slave stared at him, and drew back in astonishment and terror.
I declare, solemnly, Sir, that I have heard nothing from all the fine Gentlemen who visit us, more remarkable, for half a year, than that one young Lord was seven times drunk at Genoa. Then they all stared full in my face, and shewed all the actions of uneasiness till I was gone.
Jan dropped to the floor of the carriage, his head between his paws, and his eyes that stared at the strange new master were full of wistful pleading. After that ride came days in a big, dark place that bumped and jerked with horrible noises. He did not know that he was on a train.
Rain, rain wet and sloppy under foot, gray and gloomy over head. I pressed my cheek against Tom's round, rosy face, and we stared out together.
'A friend of his? cried the aunt. 'What like is he? What did ye say was his name? She was dead silent, and stared at the old woman darkling. Then very slowly, 'I said he was my father's friend; I have invited him to my house, and come he shall, she said; and with that she walked off to her room, where she sat staring at the wall all the evening.
He opened one door after another; and, in the saloon, in the captain's state-room and everywhere, he stared anxiously as if expecting to see on the bulkheads, on the deck, in the air, something unusual sign, mark, emanation, shadow he hardly knew what some subtle change wrought by the passage of a girl. But there was nothing.
You've treated her worse than a brute. What did you do to her this evening? Tell me; I want to know. I have never seen her act so before." He stopped, leaned against a fence, and stared at her. "I've done nothing; I " "I know better. She fell in a dead faint as soon as she got to her room. I undressed her an' put 'er to bed; but something is wrong.
"But first permit me to restore the money that I have been keeping for you." And I took out my pocketbook. Simon stared at me incredulously. "I do not understand you in the least, now, M. Hewlett," he exclaimed. "You are to keep the money. I do not go back upon my bargains." "It is not, however, your money," I retorted, though I knew that it soon would be.
You're lucky you can miss this." Roger managed a weak smile. "I'll be O.K. Go ahead and learn about that hyperdrive before you explode." There was an awkward moment while the three cadets stared at one another. The deep friendship between them didn't need to be expressed in words. Abruptly, Tom and Astro turned and left the room.
A tumbler was on a small table and a bottle of oxalic acid, "salts of lemon, as they call it," said the man. Sabre stared out of the window. "Effie has killed herself. Effie has killed herself and her baby." No, he could not fasten upon it. "Effie has killed herself." That was what this man was telling him.
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