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Then the graceful, beautiful swell of a woman's breast! "A woman!" he cried. "A girl!... I've killed a girl!" She suddenly opened eyes that transfixed Venters. They were fathomless blue. Consciousness of death was there, a blended terror and pain, but no consciousness of sight. She did not see Venters. She stared into the unknown. Then came a spasm of vitality.
'Tis about a witch, Drowned in a ditch, Your tears come from your EYES. If you are wise, Don't make a BOUNCE, Or you'll tear your flounce, And upset the sugar JAR, Which I cannot spare, I must give some to FRANCIS, So well he dances; Sugar canes packed up in LEAVES, The canes are tied up like wheat sheaves; Francis wears a scarlet JACKET, He made a dreadful racket At HARROGATE, Because he had to wait, In a field of BARLEY, To hold a parley, About a bone of marrow; His heart was transfixed by an ARROW, By a lady in VELVET, And he was her pet.
She was stricken by unanalyzable emotions and by a horror of her nearness to him, her contact with his very blood, and his power. She was conscious of a glimpse of his turning profile, still transfixed with the cool purpose of action. Then they were gazing full at each other, eyes into eyes, directly, questioningly.
Your’re pretty and awfully fascinating, and it’s always fun for the woman—especially if she knows all her bets are safely hedged. It would have been better all round. I’d have been left with some belief in—in people. As it is, when I saw that you’d only been laughing at me, I—well, I went pretty far." He stopped short, and transfixed her paleness with his big, dark eyes.
But she did not see or feel that he had found God; and, stricken as he seemed, she could not believe he was near to death. This last confounding thought held her transfixed and thrilling, gazing down at Dorn, until her father entered to break the spell and lead her away. It was night. Lenore should have been asleep, but she sat up in the dark by the window.
"I don't like Anna," remarked the June baby, not having hitherto opened her lips; "she is a stupid girl." The other two stood transfixed with horror at this statement, for, besides being naturally extremely polite, and at all times anxious not to hurt any one's feelings, they had been brought up to love and respect their kind little nurse.
Shughad performed the task, and lingered not, For he rejoiced at this catastrophe, And with a smile of fiendish satisfaction, Placed the strong bow before him Rustem grasped The bended horn with such an eager hand, That wondering at the sight, the caitiff wretch Shuddered with terror, and behind a tree Shielded himself, but nothing could avail; The arrow pierced both tree and him, and they Were thus transfixed together thus the hour Of death afforded one bright gleam of joy To Rustem, who, with lifted eyes to Heaven, Exclaimed: "Thanksgivings to the great Creator, For granting me the power, with my own hand, To be revenged upon my murderer!"
'I, said he, 'have not lived inactive or inglorious; I have transfixed the tiger with my shafts; I have, though alone, attacked the lion in his rage, the terror of the woods, the fiercest of animals; even the elephant has been compelled to turn his back and fly before my javelin; but never, in the pride of my youth and strength, did I achieve such an exploit as this. He then went into his cabin and brought forth the bow and fatal arrows which he was accustomed to use in the chase.
His Chief had gone down to a house in the country; his personal business was to see and sound the followers of their party after another sight of his Tony. She would be sure to counsel sagaciously; she always did. She had a marvellous intuition of the natures of the men he worked with, solely from his chance descriptions of them; it was as though he started the bird and she transfixed it.
And the voice of the tenor rose above that many-toned, protean, orchestrated poem with warm persuasion, wailing into inconsolable laments. Enrique got up again, and once more timidly drew apart the curtains of the outer box. Nobody noticed him. Alicia still sat there with her back toward him, transfixed by the fairy magic of the opera.
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