She turned suddenly in his arms and placed her hands against his shoulders, forcing him from her.
He caught it, bowed his head upon it, pressed it against his eyes, then lifted his face and looked up at her.
She stretched a hand towards him appealingly, and he caught it, crushing it against his breast.
The Emperor had promised to support Charles IV against his son; and, not wishing to take part in these family quarrels, he had not answered the first letters of the Prince of the Asturias.
It required all the promptitude of the Emperor's march upon Vienna to defeat the plots which were brewing against his government, for in the event of his arms being unsuccessful, the blow was ready to be struck.
He lifted the boy to his feet, but the small body sagged limply against his own, and the head rolled weakly.
Gently his hand closed over the slender fingers that gripped his sleeve, and at the touch the girl trembled and leaned closer, until her warm body rested lightly against his arm.
From between wide-sprung rows of flashing fangs the blood-dripping tongue seemed to writhe from the cavernous throat, and the foul breath blew hot against his face.
Andrews put his arm firmly round Jeanne's waist and looked down at her pale cheek that was pressed against his chest.
They leaned over the chest together, so that Andrews felt her hair brush against his cheek, and the smell of her hair in his nostrils.
Then he slapped his hands gently and repeatedly against his knees, and a grim and almost venerable look came into his mobile face.
Gaspare took the frame away reverently, and put it against his breast, inside his shirt.
The Padrone threw up his chin and clicked his tongue against his teeth.
She gave way again, and then pressed her cheek tight against his to revive herself.
It's the only thing in life that counts, when you come to think of it," he concluded with an irritation directed less against himself than against his fate.
Connie had certainly not deserted him against his will, and when her absence had begun to show as so incontestable a relief it seemed the basest ingratitude to force upon her reckless shoulders the odium of an entirely satisfying arrangement.
He was marrying her off so soon to Stan, although it was the customary age for gipsies, against his desire, but because of his will to see her in good hands and to give to Stan the succession to the leadership of his tribe.
Against his temples it beat harsh air, harsh light, the acrid smells of his work--against her temples.
But her eyes were squeezed tight against his, as if to forbid herself the consciousness that life seemed suddenly so richly sweet to her--oh, so richly sweet!
If she accepted his proposal, would he have the heart to stand to it against his father?
He was overawed by this solemnity of tone, and knew his place too well to set himself up against his clergyman; but still it cannot be denied that the decision was less satisfactory than one of much less exalted tone might have been.
It was the nearest he had gone to standing up against his clergyman; he did not like it.
Against his mind; for sin so sets itself against the nature of God, that, if possible, it would annihilate and turn him into nothing, it being in its nature point blank against him.
No act of justice is without his will, power, and wisdom; no act of mercy is against his justice, holiness and purity.
There are many Scriptures that lie against his man, as the mouths of great guns, and he is one of the many that "will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
Against his will he recalled certain unpleasant things which had happened within his knowledge under sudden and unexpected stress of emotion.
Her answer was a satisfied little sigh, and she nestled her pink face against his neck, and whispered that she was content to accept the punishment.
Then, suddenly, he found that she was fighting him, struggling to free herself and putting her hands against his face in her efforts.
He went to bed, propped himself up against his pillows, and made another effort to read.
And Peter, looking down at the delicately angled face which layagainst his shoulder, drew his breath hard.
But these thoughts fled--driven away by a rush of overwhelming sympathy--when her eyes fell on the great, impotent hulk of a man who lay propped up against his pillows.
He reclaimed her hands and drew themagainst his breast.
He paused; that unasked kiss burned once moreagainst his lips; he almost shivered at the pang of it.
At that little feeble pull he stopped and looked down at the small, wabbling head, then bent over and lifted the child, straightening its rumpled clothes and cuddling it against his shoulder.
The Chancellor studiously avoided all pretence of any other distinction than that belonging to a plain man whom circumstances have raised against his will to a position of responsibility.
Against his will he turned, and, seeing the head of Maud Lindesay, her pouting lips and beckoning finger, he went sulkily back.
But the dark, steadfast orbs thrilled him to the soul, and his own heart rose insurgent against his reason.
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