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Updated: June 5, 2025
This very madness of fear which both Decoud and Nostromo had seen in the wild and irrational glances, and in the continuous twitchings of his mouth, protected Senor Hirsch from the cruel necessities of this desperate affair. The moment of silencing him for ever had passed. As Nostromo remarked, in answer to Decoud's regrets, it was too late!
It was hardly credible that the jack had not got wrong with the minutes when the rattle began again, the puppet emerged, and the four quarters were struck fitfully as before: One could al- most be positive that there was a malicious leer upon the hideous creature's face, and a mischievous delight in its twitchings.
Daggers of lambent fever race through my brain incessant. Some fibrillary twitchings at the right angle of the mouth have also arrested my attention. 'June 25. He has dared at open mid-day to enter my room. I watched him from an angle of the stairs pass along the corridor and open my door.
When it occurs in the limbs, attention is usually directed to the fact by pain accompanying the spasms; the muscles are found to be hard and there are frequent twitchings of the limb. A characteristic reflex is present in the lower extremity, namely, extension of the foot and leg when the sole is tickled.
"A guerdon a guerdon, my knight of the staring eyes!" cried one. "A gift, my prince!" shouted the other. "Any trifle will serve a purse of gold, or even a jewelled goblet." Alleyne thought of what he had read of demoniac possession the jumpings, the twitchings, the wild talk.
She paused over the strange thought; and then there appeared her father behind her. She saw that he knew things were not as they ought to be, from the troubled dulness of his eye, and from his face, different points of which had independent motions, twitchings, and tremblings, unknown to himself, and involuntary. "He was detained, I suppose, last night?" said Melbury.
Meanwhile he published a volume of poetry, including the celebrated Bothie, about which Froude wrote to him: "I was for ever falling upon lines which gave me uneasy twitchings; e.g. the end of the love scene: "And he fell at her feet, and buried his face in her apron. "I daresay the head would fall there, but what an image!
I forbore questioning him, knowing that I could not help him in his problem that he must work it out himself. He did not sleep that night, and kept me awake most of the time with his twitchings and turnings. Once he was up, examining his face in the glass by the light of a match, but in the morning, after a doze of an hour or so, I found him outside, looking at the sunrise and smoking.
You have all sorts of silly habits, twitchings, jerkings, itchings, winkings, shrugs, frowns, coughs, snifflings and odd and meaningless gestures. Watch yourself. Do these things no more. Save your eyes and ears and hands and nerves, all your mental energy, for useful effort.
The men in grey had to take the storm; they were in the wood and orders had not come to leave it. They took it in various ways, some sullenly, some contemptuously, some with nervous twitchings of head and body, many with dry humour and a quizzical front. The Confederate soldier was fast developing a characteristic which stayed with him to the end.
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