Her eyes rivetted my attention; they seemed to blaze from their sockets; her expression was that of a tigress wounded and waiting for the death-stroke.
The rails for the points are rivetted on to flat-topped cast-iron sleepers, and were built up in my workshops, and forwarded ready for laying down.
But it was not her face, however interesting; or her form, however graceful; that rivetted the chains of Godolphin.
But with the sum you spoke of, in your pocket," said the old devotee, with her eyes rivetted on the place whence the chink had sounded.
I saw that his attention was in an instant rivetted on the figure, and perceived that his look was directed to the words (written in large letters) on the knee pan.
As the girl sat at table, not eating a mouthful, her gaze was steadily rivettedon the new comer.
He did not look, he kept his eyes rivetted on her calm face.
Percivale listened to all this with a rivetted attention, but made no reply; and now they were on the beach, their steps crunching upon the shingle.
There his gaze rivetted itself with a strange fascination.
It had rivetted itself in his mind, till he felt that he could close his eyes and commit it to canvas from memory alone.
At this letter Mr. Fowler stared, as though some magnetic power rivetted his eyes to the sheet.
The instant death of the two combatants before my gaze caused me to shudder, and I confess that from that moment I kept my eyes rivetted upon the strange narrow path by which we were crossing the impassable barrier.
His gaze seemedrivetted upon the highest pinnacle of the great rock, as if he had noticed some unusual aspect.
So close was his head that the two gleaming orbs seemed to be rivetted to us.
The rocky walls, however, rivetted the attention of both of us, for let into them at frequent intervals were large square plates of iron.
The top strip is then bent back over the armature to form the contact-spring, the other strip being soldered or rivetted to a small bracket of angle brass.
The spring at its shank end may be screwed or rivetted to the bracket.
In either case a short rod of stout hard brass wire is rivetted or screwed into the free end of the armature, and to the end of this rod is screwed or soldered the metal bead, or bob, which forms the hammer or "clapper" of the bell.
To prevent this, a piece of platinum must be soldered or rivetted to the spring, at the point where the screw touches, as shown at Fig.
The boys utterly ignored me, kept their eyes rivetted upon him and left, giving him a hearty "Thank you!
I was a little nearer to my companion and the great gray clouds suffused with pink rivetted my attention.
How shall I describe the horror of my situation--feeling my eyes rivetted on that hideous face with a preternatural fascination?
I rivetted my eyes on the figure, but all I could discern was a long black robe and two white hands.
His feet were rivetted to the spot on which he stood; his eyes on that august figure; but it was with the dazzled gaze of eager, expecting joy.
While the attention of the spectators was rivetted on these singular proceedings, the dishonoured knight made a vain attempt to escape.
As column after column moved past, still that observant eye was rivetted upon them.
Once, however, I came warily behind him while he stood watching the deer as they swept along a glade in Fullbrook; and heard him repeating words which rivetted me to the spot, nay almost took from me the power of accosting him.
I have always laughed at those people who rush through life at full speed, with dilated nostrils, uneasy eyes, and glance rivetted on the horizon.
The woman was seated upon the very edge of her chair, her eyes rivetted upon the dagger.
Marchmont sought to draw his attention another way, but it was rivetted to the spot they were quitting.
Eugenia kept her eyes rivettedto the ground; and though she tried, from time to time, to say something to them both, evidently required her utmost fortitude to remain in the room.
I thank thee for this manifestation of generosity,--a generosity that, if possible, has rivettedmy affections more indissolubly on thee!
It was the novel of “Ivanhoe” that thus rivetted her attention; and she was in the midst of the exalting scene of the combat between Brian de Bois-Gilbert and Wilfred of Ivanhoe.
There I beheld the letter--and the address immediately rivetted my attention.
I am now no stranger to all your syren wiles--your Circean witcheries: I recognise all that artifice and all that duplicity in many of the circumstances which marked our first meetings, and which rivetted the chains that you threw around me.
Heathcote, who had hitherto believed it to be impossible that his clerk could throw off the chains of servitude and thraldom which had been so firmly rivetted upon him: “leave me!
For, issuing from a shop, were two persons both of whom he instantaneously recognised, but on one of whom his eyes became rivetted as if by enchantment.
Charles read--read on with horrified feelings which often threatened to get the better of him;--but there was one point in the evidence which rivetted his attention.
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