I have barred the door of my room with two broomsticks placed in the shape of a cross, which she must have undone to go in; but when she saw them she drew back, and she went round by the other door.
I could not help shuddering as I drew back my head, on hearing a loud slapping noise below me, and a peculiar whishing, rushing sound.
Apparently satisfied, he drew back, and a splashing sound drew me to the window.
The winged vermin of the darkness alighted on the gibbet; the child, scared, drew back.
Gwynplaine, indistinctly warned by a vague, rude, but honest misgiving, drew back, but the pink nails clung to his shoulders and restrained him.
He could catch a glimpse of a crumbling precipice, and he drew back, stricken by the terror encircling him.
Ursus, as if stricken by a planet full in his breast, drew back, and looked at Gwynplaine attentively.
Across her shoulder his gaze fell on me, with a kind of peevish wonder, and he drew back a little as if in the act to question her.
She had almost blundered into me as I stood in the shadow of the wall, and now, within reach of my arm, drew back with a gasp of terror.
I drew back and, touching Dom Basilio by the shoulder, led him to the window.
The stranger, who had listened eagerly, drew back in the darkness as they passed out, and remained for a few moments a vague and motionless figure in the silent church.
But she disengaged herself with a quick movement, drew back, and suddenly crouched like a wild animal about to spring.
Suddenly he raised his head, drew back, and thrust his hand into his bosom with a theatrical gesture.
In spite of this precaution he had once seen her driving in a pony carriage, but so smartly and fashionably dressed that he drew back in the cover of a wayside willow that she might pass without recognition.
And twice I drew back, in the fear of making bad worse.
His growls increased to roars as he drew back, ripping the front of the girl's waist almost from her body with his long talons, exposing her white bosom, which through some miracle of chance the great claws did not touch.
He drew back with a start of guilty fear, and looked round the room.
Suddenly he drew back, covering his face with his hands, and I saw a look pass from Guy Pollard to that watchful third figure, which, if it had not been on the face of a gentleman, I should certainly call demoniacal.
Shocked, I drew back; Miss Pollard was a beautiful girl and totally innocent, in as far as I knew, of any of the wrong which had certainly been perpetrated by some members of her family.
The courtiers, at the approach of the friends of the unfortunate surintendant of the finances, the courtiers, we say, drew back, as if fearful of being infected by contagion with disgrace and misfortune.
The maids of honor and the courtiers, who had formed a respectful circle round the king on his entrance, drew back, on observing he wished to speak privately with his captain of the musketeers.
Then stretching his hand out, in his turn toward the poop, that is to say, toward his own cabin, he drew back to allow Aramis to go first.
After giving this signal the child drew back; and in less than a minute the covers opened wide, and then an elevator began to rise, bringing up a middle-aged man begrimed with oil and coal-dust.
I drew back a little, then lunged--lunged with heart and hand.
A growl as of a dozen bulldogs answered him, and he drew back, as a child might who has trodden on an adder.
He drew back shivering in every limb, and the voice followed him, shrieking now in a sudden burst of insane mirth and dying away a moment later in a hollow cackling laugh that seemed to curdle the blood in his veins.
In the state bedchamber he drew back suddenly, face to face with a death-white countenance in which black eyes blazed at him with triumph and delight.
He drew back mechanically, and closed the door after him as she went in.
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