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"He has given me a nasty prod." "Never mind, my friend, you shall not be the loser. Get up, you little viper!" this to Williams, who was still writhing himself into the most extraordinary attitudes. "Oh, please, Mr. Girdlestone," he cried, clutching at Ezra's boots with his long thin fingers, "it wasn't me that hit you. It was Mr. Burt. I had nothing to do with robbing you either. That was Mr.
Here you are in safety, for King Totila is close at hand, and will guard you against your enemies. Veranilda pressed her hands upon her forehead, and stood mute. As his eyes shifted furtively about her, Marcian caught sight of something black and undulant stirring among stones near her feet; at once he grasped her by the arm, and drew her towards him. 'A viper! he exclaimed, pointing.
"If you can find her, certainly; but she is not here, and never is likely to be again the wretch the viper!" "When did she leave here, madam?" "When when? What is that to you? Am I come to the pass that I cannot turn a viper into the street without being questioned by every old tramp that prowls about? I tell you the creature you call Brown " "Caroline Brown," said the old lady, gently.
As soon as she spied him, being in a nervous, hysterical state, she opened her mouth and shrieked sharply; the shriek at this time had more the tone of a child's anger than of a woman's fear. With a strong sense of humour he sat down at the table, and she, realising that he was not immediately dangerous, railed upon him. 'Viper in the bosom! said Eliz. Courthope, almost famished, ate fast.
He saw the viper, his head swaying to and fro, come sliding along, making for that very hole; he heard the sudden quick rustle in the grass behind that followed, beheld the dusky, squat form that it heralded pounce.
It 's all talk with me all snarling and railing and whining at hard facts, like a viper wasting its venom on steel. I'm sick of myself weary of the old, stale round of my thoughts. Where can I wash and be clean? Chrissy, for God's sake, tell me." "Put your hope in the Spring," she said, "an' be busy for Will."
In the course of the restoration of the tower which was recently carried out, this buttress was taken away, and its removal laid bare a fresco painting, representing St. Paul and the viper at Melita.
I was hesitating.... But suddenly, sharp as the clang of iron bars, the voice of a harlot of the streets floated up to me; like an insolent tongue, it was thrust out, this voice; it stung me like the sting of a viper.
A tenesmus continues by intervals some time after the exclusion of acrid excrement; and the pulsations of the heart of a viper are said to continue some time after it is cleared from its blood.
It was of Spanish make, and bore upon its sharp, pointed blade, a sinister inscription in that language, to this effect "When this viper bites you, make sure That you must die for there is no cure." No one could imagine how it had come there, and the tyrant was especially anxious to clear up the mystery that puzzled them all.
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