Her white face, her closed eyes, her limp form made my fury instantly collapse.
If the road from his cell were long enough, the condemned man would be fretting less about the gallows than about the tight shoe that was making him limp and wince at every step.
Her boots were singed; her short skirt would have been blazing long ago, if she had not taken the precaution of dipping it in the barrel, so that it hung limp and soaked about her feet.
Mrs. Walford’s nerves had been unequal to the strain of that fearful climb, and she had fainted, having to be borne to the top in a state of limp unconsciousness.
The first man continued to lie limp and still, and the man who had cast him there advanced slowly toward him; upon which that other ceased beating the dust from his clothes and edged away, muttering more loudly threats and vituperations.
His face was drawn and pinched and colourless; his eyes were strange, his very presence seemed curiously unfamiliar--more so still when he forced a smile and bent over her, lifting her limp fingers to his lips.
She still gazed into the lamp-lit darkness beyond him, her hand limp in his; and he saw her blue eyes, heavy lidded and dreamy, and the strand of hair curling gold against her cheek.
He, seated on the rug beside her chair, held her limp hand and rested his face against it, staring at the ashes on the hearth.
Jack quickly laid the man upon the ground, and began to straighten out his limp limbs.
He was below medium height, of rather slight build, and moved with a limpin one limb, caused by a wound he had received in battle.
The peddler lay at full length, a bundle of strange travel-wrecked clothes, suggesting a lay figure in his limp inertness and the loose sprawl of his limbs.
The peddler, limp between the big stretcher bearers, moaned and seemed to shiver in a vain effort to free himself.
The dogs were limp and quiet as he led them through the wood, strange ungainly mechanisms which a whiff of a scent could set in motion.
After thirty miles, a horse is nowhere and the man is still going, but even fifteen miles leaves the ordinary dog limp and sorry.
The mate dropped from the train here, still clad as at Beira in thick, stifling sea-cloth and his hard hat, though his collar was now but a limp frill.
Then I threw him--quite easily, for his limbs were going limp in the extremity of his horror.
He lay quite limp for a second, and, as I relaxed my effort a little, seized the occasion to slip from beneath me and let me roll into the burn.
The limp arms tautened into steel as he wrenched them loose, and, whirling around, he whipped his fist to the chin of one of the two guards.
The face of the dead chauffeur, the limp form lashed in that chair, the horrible picture in its entirety, every detail standing out in ghastly relief, took form before him.
His body went limp as he surrendered himself to his fate.
The other ear always hung limp and without movement.
It lay limp and slack where the cowpuncher set it down.
It was not long before she was offering herself as a crutch to help young Clanton limp to the sunny porch.
All is limp and faded,--both vegetation and human beings.
The pain was so great that he was obliged to go on three legs and hold up the fourth, which hung in a limp manner and hurt him dreadfully.
The little camel lay limp and still, and when the Arab, finding that coaxing and caressing were of no use, tried harsh words, Camer's mother turned savagely on him and bit him through the arm.
When they recovered themselves, they were met with more fire and smoke, and, as the latter cleared away, numbers of them could be seen stretched out on the ground, limp and senseless.
But what struck me most, as it struck us all, was the limp exhaustion of his body compared to the strength of his utterance and the tearing rush of his words.
A limp form rose shakily beside him breathing hard, and he heard a voice say very faintly something about being "ready to come.
Quickly Bukawai bound the limp arms behind his prisoner's back, then he raised him to one of his shoulders, for, though Bukawai was old and diseased, he was still a strong man.
Three swift, powerful strokes and the bull relaxed with a groan, fallinglimp beneath his antagonist.
On coming in her turn to each of these spots she found half a dozen long limp brambles which he had cut from the bush during his halt and laid out straight beside the path.
These limp ones are two I killed today at work; but as they don't die till the sun goes down they can't be very stale meat.
The child in speaking gave to his motion the jerk and limp of an invalid.
Her left hand was supporting a limp little figure, whose hair floated on the surface of the water like yellow seaweed.
But the flutter of the lids was enough to render Peggy limp with relief and thankfulness.
Early rising, late study, and almost continuous work between had resulted in a sick headache, which Peggy, limp and languid, was doing her best to fight off.
Though the chimney corner stockings should be limp on Christmas day, Though the postman on his rounds should fail to ring.
She went over to Ruth, who was making a brave struggle to regain her self-control, and possessing herself of the limp hand, stroked it tenderly.
He stood up to the rack like a man, and took the schooner through the inlet with that arm hanging by his side as limp as a dish-rag.
He sank limp and motionless to the ground, while Julius took to his heels and disappeared through the gate.
A third blow he delivered with all the force he could command, and then with a violent and convulsive throe the straining muscles beneath him relaxed and grew limp and the fight was won.
For a moment he lay limp and inert; then one shuddering spasm passed over him and he lay silent and still, with his face half buried in the sand.
It took a very long time to get this jacket off, because whilst he was helping her, Slyme kissed her repeatedly and passionately as she lay limp and unresisting in his arms.
His long head, with one entirely limp and flopping ear, was grotesquely ugly, the carcass beneath the pack a bone rack, all sharp angles and dusty hide.
Drew stopped by the mule, patted the long nose, gave a flip to the limp ear.
Johnny had slumped forward, his head on the table encircled by his limp arms.
The before limp affair almost jumped into life again by a series of jerks till it stood even more proudly than ever.
They even welcomed those boys who were neither limp nor perky, but odd--those boys who had never been at a public school at all, and such do not find a welcome everywhere.
They taught the perky boy that he was not everything, and the limp boy that he might be something.
