She could see that they took her to be one of their sort, and shocks of red and white alternated through her skin.
Jim was pretty well deadened to shocks by this time, but the news that his wife had been disloyal found an untouched spot in his heart to stab.
Or come the incessant shocks From that young Stream,[401] that smites the throbbing rocks Of Viamala?
Villainously dirty faces, surmounted by shocks of greasy hair, and with eyes half sunk into their heads, they spat out, with their nauseating breath, the grossest insults mingled with the sharp snarls of carnivorous beasts.
It seems that my lace shocks you, although I have painted none for fifteen years.
My carriage was half-covered with mud, and gave us such terribleshocks that at every moment I expected to give up the ghost.
So many successive shocks plunged me into such deep dejection that my friends, grieving for my state, urged me to try the distraction of a journey.
Whose is that towering form That tears across the mist To where the shocks are sorest?
He returned after four o'clock with a large supply of provisions, which he believed might be difficult to obtain should theshocks continue with greater violence.
At nearly midnight on Friday there had been a cessation in the shocks for about twenty-four hours, and the people were resting quietly.
From what we know of other and like disturbances," he said, "it is impossible to foresee when these shocks will end, or how soon a refuge can be sought in regions exempt from our dangers.
I was not long after all in regretting my sacrilege, for the principal booty, the head of the god, crumbled away from the shocks of the vehicle so as to be no longer recognizable.
Dreading the shocks of the palanquin in so mountainous a country, and desiring to enjoy as much as possible the grand scenery at our ease, we jogged along on asses, from Tchah-tao to Nang-Kao.
The first severe shocks were soon over, and eager to examine the new-born talus I ran up the Valley in the moonlight and climbed upon it before the huge blocks, after their fiery flight, had come to complete rest.
It is well known that, after a sufficient similarity has been created by education to prevent any violent shocks to our habits or principles, we most affect those whose characters and dispositions the least resemble our own.
I confess it shocks all my notions of propriety to see the sinner, even when he professes to be the most humble and penitent, thrust himself up ostentatiously, as if filled only with his own self-love and self-importance.
Had the changes incidental to these rapid transformations been carefully planned and supervised, the disturbances in the ecology and the shocks to human society would have been less disturbing and upsetting.
The war that Spain is waging shocks every civilized man.
The imagination of the world has been developed, the heart has grown tender, and the old dogma of eternal pain shocks all civilized people.
Sometimes it appeared to be a steady thrill, and sometimes it was intermittent, resembling light shocks of electricity.
Power of giving electrical shocksto persons at a distance.
It has been supposed that because, in many instances, 'mediums' have given shocks like those given by electrized bodies, the two agents must be identical.
Her hands were drawn under the table by sudden and powerful jerks, and every muscle in her body seemed to be agitated with the most powerful commotion, as if she were acted upon in every part by shocks of electricity.
Her body would impart powerful shocks to those who came in contact, and even when they did not touch her.
At a distance the shocks which agitated the capital were hardly felt.
The same circumstance is frequently seen in a less degree in the common hemiplagia; and when this happens, I have believed repeated and strong shocks of electricity to have been of great advantage.
And when he was electrified by passing shocks from the affected hand to the affected foot, a motion of the paralytic limbs was also produced.
But Jealousy, like modesty, and like virtue, varies with every time and clime: what is customary in Cairo would rouse consternation in Kent, and what goes on in Vienna shocks New England.
And slavery, such as it exists in pursuance of the foreign slave trade, shocks our sense of humanity quite as much as that of the most sensitive Abolitionists.
It has no religion, but in place of it, a sensual moral code, that shocks the common sense of propriety.
It came without warning, but the shocks continued for ten days.
Their youth had been passed amid the bustle of commerce; their manhood amid the alarms and rude shocks of war; and now, in their old age, they bore plainly the marks of the many shrewd brushes they had had to sustain when young.
Hence the want of decorum that shocks a stranger on visiting the Italian churches.
By gentle cautious pressure the loose granules of the substance are cemented into a continuous mass, all sudden shocks which might cause the frozen surfaces to snap asunder being avoided.
The sea-waves, as observed by Aristotle, sometimes reach the shore before the wind which produces them is felt; and here the tempest sent out its precursors, which broke in detached shocks upon the cabin before the real storm arrived.
Thus, a vibrating string imparts a series of shocks to the air around it, which are transmitted with perfect regularity to the ear, and produce a musical note.
The length of the waves, both of sound and light, and the number of shocks which they respectively impart to the ear and eye, have been the subjects of the strictest measurement.
It is partly by this judicious distribution of its materials, that the vast edifice has stood so long unshaken by thoseshocks of earthquakes, which have prostrated so many other edifices in the same period.
He charms your imagination even when he shocks your taste.
He did not realize, except in the shocks that the fact imparted at times, that death as well as disaster had invaded his home.
After the first excitement, and the successive shocks of sensation imparted by the newspapers had passed, there came over the men of Hatboro' a sort of resignation which might or might not be regarded as proof of a general demoralization.
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