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Updated: May 13, 2025
Two big kerosene lamps, through a couple of smoky chimneys, sent a dull red glare upon the company, which half filled the room. If Steve's face was unpleasant to look upon, the nonchalant, tiger-like poise and flex of his body was not.
Never pausing to see what was the fate of her possessions, the child let out one scream of animal rage, and with a tiger-like spring caught the feet of her enemy and jerked the coward off his perch.
Every nation's duty, first, midst, and last, is to itself. Civilities and high-bred courtesies pass and ought to pass between nations; that is the graceful drapery which shrouds their natural, fierce, and tiger-like relations to each other.
She asked me to give her some with great modesty, and put up her face for me to give her a kiss, but I turned my head away. However, she was not in the least disconcerted. "I suppose the marks of the blows you gave me make my face so repulsive?" "You lie; I never struck you." "No, but your tiger-like claws have left bruises all over me. Look here.
The missile had passed through her heart, and she lay pressing the little Evert to her bosom, with that air of steady and unerring affection which had marked every act of her innocent and feeling life. The boy himself, thanks to the tiger-like gallantry of Nick, had escaped unhurt.
How very different from the capricious and eccentric movements of the gnoos! Individually they bore some resemblance to these last-named animals. In the shape of their bodies and tails, in their general ground colour, and in the "brindled" or tiger-like stripes that could be perceived upon their cheeks, neck, and shoulders.
In the act of springing to stab, he leaped to his own death, shot through the head. As he fell, the poignard, escaping his relaxed grasp, rang on the floor. Mex, who tiger-like had sprung from her covert, snatched up the shiny weapon, and fiercely stabbed it into Pepillo's lifeless breast.
"And I tell you I won't go," he retorted furiously. "I'm going to show you up. I'm going to tell him the truth. It isn't you I care for he's got to know." Slamming the drawer shut, she turned and faced him, almost tiger-like in her anger. "You don't care for me?" she cried. "No." "It isn't me you're thinking of?" "No." "Who's the liar now?" "Liar?" "Yes, liar. You are!
His lordship was so overcome by Kean's magnificent acting that he fell forward in a convulsive fit, and it was some time before he regained his wonted composure. Douglas Jerrold said that Kean's appearance in Shakespeare's Jew was like a chapter out of Genesis, and all who have seen the incomparable actor speak of his tiger-like power and infinite grace as unrivalled.
We say stood, for all three were so skilled in the management of that species of frail bark, as to be able to keep erect positions in the midst of the darkness. The approach to the shore was made with great caution, and the landing effected in safety. The three now prepared their arms, and began their tiger-like approach upon the camp.
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