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Cuyler, and I all know most of these people, but a mere acquaintance is nothing to get into a first-rate office and get their best business means that you've got to have a strangle hold on the agent nothing less will do." Mr. Whitehill leaned back in his chair.
MISTRESS FAWCETT. To strangle you with a horse-hair pie! Your obeah charlatans are grovelling in their cellars. Only our courage and our two hands can save us to-day. Come! Are my daughter and I to do it all? Get up! Oh, mistress! MISTRESS FAWCETT. Close the windows, Rachael. I cannot. And those creatures are empty skulls. RACHAEL. In a moment. MISTRESS FAWCETT. In a moment? Open your ears.
"Curses on you, little hell-bird, since neither persuasions nor promises will make you mine, it shall be done by force. Nay, if you scream so, by the powers of darkness I'll strangle you!" In all human probability he would have been as good as his word, for Fanny continued to scream louder and louder; when suddenly Mr.
A muzhik in a white apron wearing a conspicuous emblem made his way through the crowd and, screwing up his mouth, cried like a madman: "For Rush-ya, I say, fel-lows, kill 'em!" He threw himself on Elisaveta and began to strangle her. She awoke. Again there was a dark, terrible dream. Nothing as yet was to be seen, it was hard to tell what was happening. But fear filled the intense darkness.
Here the engraver, as a hospitable host, brought a bottle of wine and two glasses. "No, Monsieur Gerard, I thank you, I take nothing between my meals. The workingmen have been deceived too often, and at the next election we shall not let the bourgeoisie strangle the Republic." Enough! Enough! simply so as not to refuse you. While waiting, let us prepare ourselves.
She could not creep to his bedside and strangle him in the silent watches of the night. And this woman's heart, even while from day to day she was meditating murder, while she was telling herself that it would be a worthy deed to cut off from life one whose life was a bar to her own success, even then revolted from the shrinking stealthy step, from the low cowardice of the hidden murderer.
He was quiet a while, and then he added, "An' I've seen the path where they used to come down to the river, an' it has places wore in the solid rock like you'd make with your big toe." Jud stopped, and I moved up a little closer to him. I could see the ugly, crooked men crawl out of their caves and come sneaking down from the mountains to strangle the sleeping and burn the roof.
implying that the separation between God and man, although it had destroyed the beatific vision, was not yet so complete as to make the creature deaf to the voice of his Maker. Nor are the words of Eve, with which she begs her husband, in her shame and remorse, to strangle her, odd and quaint as they are, without an almost overpowering pathos:
I strangle, in the sudden thrall Of this sharp pang of agony, Oh, hold me, Tarfe, lest I fall." Thus Adelifa weeping cried At thought of Abenamar's quest: In Moorish Tarfe's arms she fell, And panting lay upon his breast.
Effie with an air of being about to strangle the woman; she affectionately wrung the hands of Cousin Egbert, and had grasped my own tightly before I could evade her, not having looked for that sort of thing. "That's Cousin Egbert's man!" called Mrs. Effie. But even then the powerful creature would not release me until her daughter had called sharply, "Maw! Don't you hear? He's a man!"
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