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"The girl is ill; let me take care of her." "Really ill?" "Yes, or will be so before morning. There is fever in her veins; she has worried herself ill. Oh, I will be good to her." This in answer to a doubtful look from Miss Althorpe. "This is a difficult problem you have set me," that lady remarked after a moment's thought.
For hours he was tortured by the longing for raw beef, for the fresh blood that would put heat into his veins. The kitchen at Chericoke flamed upon the hillside, as he remembered it on winter evenings when the great chimney was filled with light and the crane was in its place above the hickory.
We listened breathlessly for the loud boom we had just heard, but it was not repeated. In a moment afterwards our ears were startled by the most terrifying combination of screams, shrieks, cries, and wailings I had ever heard. My blood seemed chilled in my veins. "A ship has just struck," whispered my companion, scarcely above her breath. "The Lord have mercy on the crew!"
I've not a drop of English blood in my veins." "And you might not be married, might you?" persisted the German. "If you had a wife and children, now? Dutch people do not like those who are not married." "Ah," said the stranger, looking tenderly at the block, "I have a dear wife and three sweet little children two lovely girls and a noble boy."
In the veins of many of them ran the blood of those who had been persecuted for their faith: Covenanters, Quakers, sectaries of diverse sorts who could transmit to their descendants their instincts of fiery zeal, their cravings for "the light that never was on sea or land," but not that education by contact with law and order which, in older states, could not fail to moderate reasonable minds.
And have you gone next day and next, and watched the little blades shoot upward, spread themselves with delight, grow green and wax strong; and finally, warm with the sun, cool with the dew, vigorous with the flow of sap in their veins, seen them wave their green tips in the breeze?
The King then, signing to the other nobles to pass into the public apartments, stopped Buckingham as he was about to follow them; and when they were alone, asked, with a significant tone, which brought all the blood in the Duke's veins into his countenance, "When was it, George, that your useful friend Colonel Blood became a musician?
He was determined, however, that Elinor should not go out in such a night and to such a scene, and told Tannis so in no uncertain terms. "I came through the storm," said Tannis, contemptuously. "Cannot she do as much for him as I can?" The good, old Island blood in Elinor's veins showed to some purpose. "Yes," she answered firmly. "No, Tom, don't object I must go. Get my horse and your own."
The rocks over which the streams flowed contained veins of quartz with little particles of gold scattered through it, and as the surface rock crumbled and was worn away, the gold, being much heavier, slowly accumulated in the gravel at the bottom of the streams. This gold amounted in value to hundreds of millions of dollars. The forces within the earth became active again.
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