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And she knew even in her writhings of despair that Rupert Louth would go scot free. She would never try to punish him for what he had done to her: and he would never know he had done it, unless one of the "old guard" told him. It was when she thought of the "old guard" that Lady Sellingworth almost crumbled, almost went to pieces.
I saw the dark image of Ayesha still seated, still bending, as I had seen it last. I saw a pale hand feebly grasping the rim of the magical caldron, which lay, hurled down from its tripod by the rush of the beasts, yards away from the dim fading embers of the scattered wood-pyre. I saw the faint writhings of a frail wasted frame, over which the Veiled Woman was bending.
In plainer words, he is a great and exact scholar laborious, patient, indefatigable, reserved; and, at the same time, a Protean Wizard, breathing forbidden life into the Tyrian-stained writhings of many an enchanted Lamia! At a thousand points he is the only modern literary figure who draws us towards him with the old Leonardian, Goethean spell.
The second impulse conquered the first and he stood like a statue while a cold sweat broke out all over his body. For he had realized by the feel that it was the reptile's head that was beneath his heel and must be kept there at all costs until the life was crushed out of it. Gradually the writhings grew feebler, until at last the coils relaxed and fell in a heap about his foot.
Do you not see amid the masses congregated in the wealthiest cities of the world, writhings and struggles against the received order of things?
The tomahawk fell, however, the withes were parted, and up flew the saplings, with a violence that threatened to tear the arms of the victim out of their sockets. The Indians listened, expecting the screeches and groans; they gazed, hoping to witness the writhings of their captive. But they were disappointed.
"Surely, my lord," said the countess, vainly endeavoring to subdue the writhings of torture which this language excited, "surely the Marquis d'Orsini is wronged by the breath of scandal?"
For all his pragmatic certitude, it seemed as if he watched the play and movement of life in the hope of discovering something more about it, of discerning in its maddest writhings a something which had hitherto escaped him, the key to its mystery, as it were, which would make all clear and plain. But the beating! It was quite similar to the one I had witnessed in the cabin.
The dog was making frantic writhings to get to the Mistress. She caught his furry ruff and raged on, sick with anger. "I know who you are and what you want this poor frightened puppy for. You shan't have him! There seems to be no law to prevent human devils from strapping helpless dogs to a table and torturing them to death in the unholy name of science.
It took shape as a face a human face a burnt human face: and with the odious writhings of a wasp creeping out of a rotten apple there clambered forth an appearance of a form, waving black arms prepared to clasp the head that was bending over them. With a convulsion of despair Humphreys threw himself back, struck his head against a hanging lamp, and fell.
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