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On the other hand, he had formed friendships in Regina; and while most of the people in the barracks would be genuinely sorry to lose him, he, for his part, could not contemplate without twinges of regret the prospect of exchanging their society for the isolation of the two-roomed post-house at Buck's Crossing.
"You mean beautiful Evelyn Hope, don't you?" I asked. "Gray was the name." "I'd like to know what you were doing up so late?" "Oh, we had a big night three tables of bridge and one of poker. I sat up late to count my winnings." "How much did you drop, as a matter of fact?" "Only about eighty." "Any twinges this morning?" "No, sir. And a better appetite than you've got." "I doubt that."
I didn't think we should see you to-night, Granger; you said you were going to a dinner at Sir Archer Taverham's." "I was engaged to dine with Sir Archer; but I wrote him a note this morning, excusing myself upon the plea of gout. I really had a few twinges last night, and I hate dinner-parties." "I am glad you have so much wisdom.
There is hardly a man in public life who has not done as much, or worse, but the world is remarkably uninterested, and the press finds any other news more thrilling. The Reynolds woman is probably responsible for many remorseful twinges in the breasts of eminent patriots, but your name alone is given to the public. As for Mrs.
Now, we have a speaker whose most eloquent sentences are cut short by the twinges of a bad tooth; now, one of the characters who never begins to speak without stopping in the middle to complain of his shoes being too small, or his belt too tight, etc. A PERSON EMBARRASSED BY HIS BODY is the image suggested to us in all these examples.
I remembered that my friend's pale face had looked a shade paler than usual the evening before, and that there had been a pinched expression around the nose and mouth, as if from pain; but Sir Tom had many twinges from his old enemy, gout, which he did not care to discuss, and I took little note of his lack of fitness.
The Averys have too many apples, and they are going to waste. I'm sure Mrs. Avery would rather let us have them than the chickens." They lay in silence for a while. Something was hurting them, but whether it was their fear of the wrath of Prudence, or the twinges of tender consciences, who can say? "She's an unearthly long time about it," exclaimed Lark, at last. "Do you suppose they caught her?"
And if I do come out next winter, I know that, right in the middle of all the parties and things, I shall have little homesick twinges for our frolics in the attic, and the cosy talks around Mrs. Adams's open fire." "It must be so exciting to come out," sighed Florence. "We can't do it in this little place, for we're never in, very much.
Almost before we knew it a storm gathered and broke directly over our heads. There was no shelter, so we just kept riding. I had visions of pneumonia and sore throat and maybe rheumatism. In fact I began to feel twinges of rheumatics, but the Chief scoffed.
Finally, this summer, when the family of the notary had gone abroad, she decided to visit his rooms; and here for the first time gave herself up to him with tears, with twinges of her conscience, and at the same time with such ardour and tenderness, that the poor secretary lost his head completely was plunged entirely into that senile love, which no longer knows either reason or retrospect; which compels a man to lose the last thing the fear of appearing ridiculous.
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