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They moved silently about, without one being able to see by what means, for their skirts touched the carpet all round; they glided here and there, receded, approached, rigid in black and white, with precise gestures, and no life in their faces, like a pair of marionettes in mourning; and their air of wooden unconcern struck him as unnatural, suspicious, irremediably hostile.
After visiting the artisan, on the way home he met near the post office a police superintendent of his acquaintance, who greeted him and walked a few paces along the street with him, and for some reason this seemed to him suspicious.
Those great, brutal despotisms, terrible in repression, were not so suspicious as powers which have a faith to defend. They allowed everything up to the point when they thought it necessary to be severe. It is not recorded that Jesus was even once interfered with by the civil power, in his wandering career.
Even the Duke of Wellington declared to Stanhope that he considered Lowe a stupid man, suspicious and jealous, who might very well have let Napoleon go freely about the island provided that the six or seven landing-places were well guarded and that Napoleon showed himself to a British officer every night and morning.
You will be furnished an escort to see you safely across the line. You may choose your own guard if you doubt." "And my friends?" "They go, too, of course." "All of them?" The Mexican smiled. "You're the most suspicious man I ever knew. All of them, Señor Yeager." "Including Miss Seymour?" The range-rider spoke quietly, but his eyes were like swords.
Are you, or are you not, prepared to hand over the key to Madame's door?" Without hesitation Roger put his hand in his pocket and took out the key. "Here it is," he said simply, and held it out to the astonished officer, who shot him a puzzled and suspicious glance from under his black brows.
Now just what, considered Val, was the slim young clerk from Mr. LeFleur's office telling that red-faced man in the too-snug suit? He would have liked to have overheard a word or two. Perhaps he had become unduly suspicious but he had his doubts. "We turn left at the next corner," said Ricky. Val changed gears and drove on.
I found my westward march frequently interrupted by spooks some rock, stump or bush would, to my suspicious eye, take on the human form until I thought it was a sentry on guard and meant danger. Once or twice I sought the shelter of the jungle and spent a long time watching for some sign of movement.
It is so large and extensive that the Spaniards have had a second wall built inside the city of less size than the first, within which to retire in case of need.... It was made especially in consideration of the Japanese, of whom the Spaniards are very suspicious. "The governor of all the islands, who resembles a viceroy, lives in Manille, as does also the archbishop.