For a few seconds I stood silent, vibrating with the passion which had been awakened in me.
She took me in her arms, and for a few seconds we hung together.
In a few seconds, as though she had reacquired her strength, she herself pulled the heavy curtain across the window.
In a few seconds more I could see that these were fixed to the corners of the great stone tomb with the covering of glass, which was being dragged upward.
Then suddenly it reared its head right to the top of the cave and so remained for a few seconds, whereon Savage stood still, bending a little forward, as though he were bowing to the reptile.
Whether I hit him or no I could not say, but he stopped for a few seconds, perhaps because he remembered the effect of a similar explosion upon his eye, which gave us a trifling start.
They gazed each at the other, perfectly still for a few seconds, then Rolf without undue movement brought the gun to bear, and still the buck stood gazing.
Into the largest it went so quickly Rolf could scarcely see how it entered, and out in a few seconds bearing a flying squirrel whose skull it had crushed.
There was a sound of some one stirring in the lumber-room; and, a few seconds later, a finger tapped at the door.
After a few seconds, that seemed to them like long minutes, they stopped.
They hovered for a few seconds, then fell like stones, pitched on to their beaks, recovered themselves, waddled forward into line, and sat gazing at Hans.
In a few seconds we were out into the moonlight beyond, and, as I expected, I saw that this something was a man--Pereira!
For a few seconds he rocked to and fro upon his great wings, then commenced to travel upwards in vast circles, which grew gradually more narrow, till he appeared to be flying almost straight into the empyrean.
Then suddenly he paused, hung quite steady for a few seconds, shut his wings and fell like a bolt, only opening them again just before he reached the earth.
I heard the bullet strike, or seem to strike, and a few seconds later I heard something else--the noise of a heavy thud upon the ground.
Mr. Hyde appeared to hesitate, and then, as if upon some sudden reflection, fronted about with an air of defiance; and the pair stared at each other pretty fixedly for a few seconds.
He gave his friend a few seconds to recover his composure, and then approached the question he had come to put.
These observations, though they have taken so great a space to be set down in, were yet the work of a few seconds.
Gyp sat quite still for a few seconds, and then began to laugh.
None stayed with her more than a few seconds, but clustering together talked and twisted their programmes, looking secretly at the door for the first appearance of a man.
Blanca's answer, deferred for a few seconds, was: "Hilary perhaps knows.
He opened his eyes after a few seconds, and looked anxiously round.
He appeared to be struggling with various conflicting emotions for a few seconds, and then said in a low voice-- 'Tupman only wants your money.
In a few seconds it became apparent that it came from the arm which was bare.
She covered her eyes with her hand for a few seconds; we two men looked at each other and waited, trying to appear unmoved.
My thoughts seemed to whirl with lightning rapidity, and in a few seconds a whole process of reasoning became formulated.
When I had thought the matter over a few seconds I spoke.
He looked keenly at her for a few seconds before he spoke again.
Her mother was present, and in a few seconds I made up my mind that she was trying all she knew to mislead her mother and prevent her from being anxious.
They stopped at the gate, and a few secondslater I met Van Helsing running up the avenue.
He seemed dazed for a few seconds, and then full consciousness seemed to burst upon him all at once, and he started up.
So Art went on, "He had been there, and though it could only have been for a few seconds, he made rare hay of the place.
After a few seconds, he rushed up on deck in his flannels.
He stood for a few seconds like a man who is dazed.
A few seconds later, to my wonder and amazement, I perceived that this something was the spirit-like form of a white woman which stood quite still upon the very point of the rock.
The night waned, the life with it; now and then the breathing seemed to cease, but after a few seconds a faint gasp told that the clay would not yet forego its hold on the soul that struggled to be free.
She paused a few seconds, and as he remained silent, she continued: "Mr. Hammond is the best friend you have on earth.
The boy was silent for a few seconds, and then his thin, sallow face brightened.
But it was only for a few seconds, for, on entering the thick bushes, he wheeled sharp round and came rushing out in full charge.
The latter are about two inches long, and the former are much larger than a leopard's; hence it may easily be imagined how even a few seconds of biting and clawing might alter the most handsome expression of countenance.
A few seconds of this multiplying velocity and--crash!
Quiet again for a few seconds, when presently the loud alarm of the plover rings over the plain--"Did he do it?
But a few seconds of frantic search proved the baby was gone.
In a few seconds, Lad rose wearily to his feet; the spasm of primal grief having spent itself.
He had been sniffing the air, reminiscently, for a few seconds.
To make sure he left the wheel for a few seconds, peering out along the deck, on both sides of the pilot house.
A few secondslater a crash that shook the earth followed, causing the audience to shiver with nervous apprehension.
In but a few seconds half of the company lay on the ground, and the colors had disappeared among the fallen.
The silent encounter only lasted a few seconds, but the play on both sides was so marked that it could not fail to excite the attention of the lookers-on.
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