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His voice was slightly husky and strained, and a nervous twitch in the corner of his mouth followed speech. Kearns was pale, and those who looked on noted that his hand trembled as he wrote his slip. But his voice was unchanged. "I lift her along for five thousand," he said. Daylight was now the centre. The kerosene lamps above flung high lights from the rash of sweat on his forehead.
"In the same way," said Brink, "you can try to perform violent actions in a strong psi field a field made especially to act on violence. When you first try it you get something like eddy currents. Warnings. It can be arranged that such psi eddy currents make your eyelids twitch. Keep it up, and probability changes to shift the most-likely consequences of the violence.
"Buttercup; but she don't seem to know it very well. She ain't a mite like a buttercup." "Never mind; you must shout 'Buttercup! at the top of your voice, and twitch the rope HARD; then I'll call, 'Hurrap! with all my might at the same moment. And if she starts quickly we mustn't run nor seem frightened!" They did this; it worked to a charm, and Mrs.
The dear little Ugly Duckling waddles, bodily, into your consciousness, and you pity his sorrows and anticipate his triumph, before you begin. This preliminary recognition of mood is what brings the delicious quizzical twitch to the mouth of a good raconteur who begins an anecdote the hearers know will be side-splitting.
"He collapsed three days ago. Nervous prostration. He kept having dreams about hangings." Phillip sighed. "Well, I suppose we'd better just face it. Nice knowing you, Jake. Pity it had to be this way." "It was a great try, old man. A great try." "Ah, yes. Nothing like going down in a blaze of " Phillip stopped dead, his eyes widening. His nose began to twitch.
He stood motionless while they adjusted the rope round his bronzed throat. They had judged him for a villain; they should at least know him a man. So he stood there straight and lithe, wide-shouldered and lean-flanked, a man in a thousand. Not a twitch of the well-packed muscles, not a quiver of the eyelash nor a swelling of the throat betrayed any fear. His cool eyes were quiet and steady.
I hope the sight of blood doesn't make you feel green," said Max, with a one-sided twitch of the lips that was scarcely a smile. He removed his hand to her relief, and stood up. Olga stood up too, but she was trembling all over. "Oh, I can't! Indeed, I can't! Dr. Wyndham, please!" She glanced round desperately. "There's Nick! Couldn't you ask him?"
There was Allister's whistle; Jeff Rankin ran around from the other side of the train; the gang faded instantly into the thicket. Andrew, as the rear guard his most ticklish moment backed slowly toward the trees. Once there was a waver in the line, such as precedes a rush. He stopped short, and a single twitch of his rifle froze the waverers in their tracks.
She will do a mischief if she can, But the string is held by a careful man, And whenever the evil-minded witch Would cut come caper, he gives a twitch. As for the hag, you can't see her, But hark! you can hear her black cat's purr, And now and then, as a car goes by, You may catch a gleam from her wicked eye. Often you've looked on a rushing train, But just what moved it was not so plain.
The muscles of his cheeks began to twitch still quicker. "What is your name?" "Simon Petroff Kartinkin," he said quickly, in a sharp voice, evidently prepared for the question. "What estate?" "Peasant." "What government, district?" "Government of Tula, district of Krapivensk, Kupian township, village of Borki." "How old are you?" "Thirty-four; born in eighteen hundred " "What faith?"
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