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It was as though with violent straining and wrenching the familiar links and bulwarks of life were breaking down, and as if amid the wreck of them she found herself looking at goblin faces beyond, growing gradually used to them, ceasing to be startled by them, finding in them even a wild attraction and invitation. So Roger had lied to her.
Brock did not know it was there until it lighted on the back of his neck. It stung him till Brock felt the pain was wrenching him apart. But still he kept his hands on the bellows, working it so that the fire neither blazed up nor died down for a single instant. When Sindri came to look into the fire, Brock was not able to speak for pain.
"You will find it most private," AhnRee said. "It is some distance from the main house. In return, a bit of modeling, say, once a week? Say you will," he pleaded. "Only if it is all right with Willow," Amber said, kicking Willow in the ankle. "Ah, Willow," AhnRee said, wrenching his eyes from Amber who was becoming ever more elusive, more of a muse. "Where is this place?" Willow asked.
"Yes," answered Captain Goodwin, the senior surgeon. "May I properly ask what you find?" "We are not yet quite sure," replied the senior surgeon. "None of the bones of the spine are broken. There has, of course, been a severe wrenching there. Whether your injury is going to continue into a serious or permanent injury we cannot yet say.
"I got it in this way without paying a cent of duty," she said in a stage whisper to Miss Lavinia and me in the hall, as she struggled to release the box, wrenching off a waist hook or two as she did so. "Jenks-Smith said it didn't look natural, and I'd surely be spotted, but I said I'd like to see mere hired men try to tell a lady how stout or how thin she had a right to be.
He refused when we urged him to come with us; he declared he would be in no danger, that he could guard himself. I think he can." The lady clenched her hands, and her voice broke a little, as she disclosed the anxiety that was wrenching her soul. "But now I don't know what he will do. If we can free Roy in time; if we can stop trouble forward! Then I know Mr.
While he stood thus gazing, hardly seeing the face that looked up at him with such troubled wonder, he saw her turn her eyes quickly, shrink; and then wrenching her hands from his, she fled. He looked up. Two women were standing before him. "I seek Amaryllis, the Seleucid," he said, recovering himself. "I am she," the Greek said, stepping forward.
It was a wrenching sight, too brutal far, to see the sergeant place his gun against the poor wretch's head, and end his agony!
A match crackled in his hand, and the gas-jet spluttered into flame the light in the room could not be seen from the lane. He ran across the room, tearing off his mask as he went, and, wrenching the cash-box from his pocket, tucked mask and cash-box behind the disordered array of dirty canvases on the floor he dared not take the risk or the time that loosening the base board would entail.
As Madeline shut her eyes and, staggering, was about to fall, apparently right under pounding hoofs, a rude, powerful hand clapped round her waist, clutched deep and strong, and swung her aloft. She felt a heavy blow when the shoulder of the horse struck her, and then a wrenching of her arm as she was dragged up. A sudden blighting pain made sight and feeling fade from her.
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