Clothes, complexions, polish of manner, and the avoidance of any sort of shock were the simple objects of their solicitude.
Almost quicker than the eye could follow him, he had turned and was dropping to the ground, his arms held above his head, which hung slightly forward, and his legs stretched to meet the shock of the elastic mattress.
Some five weeks elapsed before she was judged sufficiently strong to bear the shock which such news would inevitably produce.
I wrote him a somewhat defiant letter, stating my aspirations, and, as I flattered myself, shrewdly giving him a week to get over the first shock of horrified surprise.
For an instant the shock drove the breath out of Brian, then he felt a hand close on his throat, and struck out with his skean.
Then Brian was wakened by a shock at the door, and he heard the Dark Master's voice outside directing his men.
So, a mode of dress obviously intended for driving strikes us as outre in a parlor; and a parlor dress would no less shock our eyes on horseback.
It was nearly two hours ere he manifested the remotest symptoms of animation, and on inquiry the doctor pronounced the sudden shock he had nervously sustained to be grave indeed.
The shock of his sudden demise, when conveyed to his master, whom he revered, brought on a severe attack of hemorrhage, under which Sir John Dunfern now lay prostrate.
I nearly fell off my horse at the shock of it, and then my blood got to acting funny, so that my head felt queer.
Pochette gave a yell and relapsed into French that I'd hate to translate; it would shockeven his own countrymen.
To see him lying there like that, so white and weak and so utterly helpless, gave me a shock that I was quite unprepared for.
I can't say that, after the first shock of surprise, I gave much time to wondering what brought Frosty home.
I compare it with the age which terminated thirty years ago--roused, invigorated, searched as that age was through all its sensibilities by the electricshock of the French Revolution.
Guy Fawkes turned his gaze in the direction of the voice; and, notwithstanding his own deplorable condition, he was filled with concern at the change wrought in her appearance by the terrible shock she had undergone.
You shall not do what you propose, and when you are yourself again, and have recovered from the shock your feelings have sustained, you will thank me for my interference.
But it was evident that the shock had been too much for her, and that she was sinking fast.
The shock was dreadful, and seemed to dislocate her wrists, while the pressure on the hands was increased in a tenfold degree.
I feared the effect of the shock upon your feelings.
I have received a shock from which I shall never recover, and the only haven of repose to which I look forward is the grave.
An instant later the Bonito reeled from the shock of two tremendous blows.
I am English, signora, and we are fond of strong exercise, and so after nightfall, when it cannot shock my friends, I often take an oar myself.
Its shaft passed me; and our bodies met with a shock that caused us both to reel upon the very edge of the cliff.
The sudden shockhad separated us, and both rose at the same instant, again to grapple, and again to come together to the earth.
You would suppose that the first shock would have prostrated both ranks.
Who is this distinguished-looking young woman with her eyes drooping, and the shadow of a dreadful shock yet fresh upon every feature?
Yet how could I shock the sweet filial heart of my cousin by a fierce lampoon or stylites against her father, had Latin even figured amongst her accomplishments?
The shock was novel and overpowering, when the separation seemed acquiesced in by him, thus putting it out of her own power to hesitate further between devotion to the lover or to the parent.
I was sleepy I suppose and was not so sharp on the look-out as I ought to have been, and I suddenly got an awful shock on distinctly seeing in front of me in the first light of the dawn two men in dark clothes approaching.
I never got such a bad shock as that, but neither did I ever get the two of them walking with their backs turned at the same time.
Such a shock makes a man stupid; for a moment it numbs all the mental faculties, and wounded self-esteem only gives place to anger.
The two knights rode together so fiercely that the shock threw them both off their horses in a swoon.
Arthur and Sir Accalon rode at each other so furiously that at the shock of the meeting both fell off their horses.
After the shock their chargers / bore the knights so fast Onward past each other / as flew they on the blast.
With shock of shields and lances / heard ye the palace court Loud give back the echo / where Gunther's men rode on.
He started, and a secret terror crept over him, vaguely mixed with the memory of the shock he had felt as he turned the last corner, and his distinct, awful feeling that something invisible had passed him.
The added shock which this discovery gave to the heaving of his heart made him gasp for breath.
She reached out her hand, and although she was in some way curiously prepared for it, she found her companion not at her side, and she felt all the shock of surprised dread which that discovery would necessarily entail.
He seems to have had a shock or fright: was staring at a letter when I went in, and I left him staring at it when I came out, his wits evidently wool-gathering.
That lady, considerably recovered from the shock of the fall, was writing an affectionate letter to her daughter Amelia, telling her she might come home with Caroline Ryle.
To one so habitually resolute, sagacious, and self-reliant as Mrs. Dobbs, theshock of discovering that she has been living under a delusion is severe.
But I was anxious to spare you theshock of hearing of this disaster accidentally.
As they did so, crossing the wide lawn side by side, it suddenly occurred to Theodore, with a shock of surprise, that he and Owen had not exchanged any sort of greeting or salutation whatever.
Whose were the athletic arms that drove your bayonets at Vimiera through the phalanxes that never reeled in the shock of war before?
The earthquake shock of the French Revolution overthrew a throne rooted to the soil by the growth of a thousand years.
The first glance at the occupants of the chamber produced a shock of surprise, which manifested itself in so sudden a change of manner and bearing in the two young men, that it would have been ludicrous to any looker-on.
Your mind is unhinged by the shock of my intelligence, Signor Marchese--naturally enough--or such an absurd notion would not have occurred to you.
His own hand shook, and he paused in his speech, overcome for a moment by a sort of dizziness and a sudden rush of the blood to his brow and eyes,--a veritable electric shock caused by the contact of her hand with his.
Mother had heard the news; the shockwhich the doctor dreaded had had its effect.
Of course all women know that they are barred from juries not because the happenings in court would shock or even surprise them, but because they would embarrass their far more sensitive and finicky men.
Thus, in jumping from an elevation the shock caused by the feet striking the ground is reduced in intensity by bending the legs, while the extensor muscles operate to sustain the weight of the falling body.
When the columns are to be overthrown, their weight is balanced by the counterweight secured to the end of the rope, so that there is little shock from the fall.
There is a certain art in managing the fall, as, if the shock were received directly by the spinal column, it might be very severe.
Our next two engravings show two kinds of jumps: the first, the flexure of the legs and the reduction of the shock; the second, with the leg almost straight, which implies a severe shockby the feet striking the ground.
Something like an electric shock answers his thought, and bids him to consider his surroundings real, whether they are or not, and forbids him to think of such a thing as applying a test.
A shock from this element is in every respect as real to the consciousness as an electric shock is to us.
This would be the easier as you discovered that your mental vision was as clear as ever, and that your real self, which is back of all your senses, had received no shock or injury.
It was a considerable shock to her to find them in possession of the stoep when she rode up, but the sight of the red-faced Englishman who strode out to meet her reassured her in a moment.
I was afraid Mary Ann might give you a shock if she woke you suddenly," he said.
She saw again the shock of collision and the awful hurtling fall.
Somehow that look had given her a curious shock though she did not understand it.
He wrenched it open, and as he did so there came the shock of a thudding fall.
Now that the first shock of the encounter was past she had herself quite firmly in hand.
It sent such a shock through her that she shrank in spite of herself.
