The Stiletto was floating stern-on and rolling loggily, but retaining still, I thought, something of the sinister air that she had worn on her strange business through those summer days.
There was, I felt again, something sinister in the very whiteness of its pocket-handkerchief of canvas as it stole lazily before the wind.
They see nothing at all sinister or absurd about it, these simple fellows.
The wind howled in the chimney, and the rain had begun to sputter right down it, so that the fire was beginning to hiss in a very sinister manner.
She is at full liberty to pursue her voyage in her own way, and to use all necessary precautions to avoid any suspected sinister enterprise or hostile attack.
His principle it was to act right, and to trust the people for support; his principle it was not to follow the lead of sinister and selfish ends, nor to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course.
It not only assails its independence, by addressing sinister motives to it, but it furnishes from the public treasury the means of exciting these motives.
A scene a great artist might have loved to paint, yet the atmosphere was sosinister that Myra shivered involuntarily.
That fate from the first bore but a sinister aspect.
From that time till August, 1750, the shadow of his sinister guest did not darken the attorney's door.
From the following references it would appear that the empty old house in Hart Street had acquired a sinister reputation.
Sidenote: Young lovers of three eras are swept down the torrent of the sinister cripple Tugh's frightful vengeance.
But he had a conviction that eyes, sinister and deadly, had been staring into his, that a living mass had withdrawn softly into a shadowed cave, and that the menace that had threatened the ape-men was directed now toward them.
There was a strange and intangibly sinister quality in the moonlight that streamed dimly into the winding passage.
Over his fine and expressive eyes were bushy black brows, which almost met on his forehead, giving him a somewhat sinister appearance.
Illustration: The stealthy menace of those evil eyes was startling Page 84] It demanded almost an effort to sink into the chair and disregard the sinisterobject glaring at him from the table.
She was strangely reluctant at first, and her unwillingness to produce that sinister carving was not to be wondered at, for she had seen sufficient of the men of Oku during the past few hours to disturb her dreams for many a year.
She knew that Warden had said nothing at Plymouth of meeting Rosamund in London, and she was hardly to be blamed for drawing the most sinisterinference from his silence.
Although the captain of the Valiant, out of sheer kindliness, concealed the sinister outcome of Warden's visit to the Morocco town, his very reticence induced anxiety.
What a catch must have come in their breath as in a second it flashed upon them that it was not Manchester but Death which was waiting for them at the end of that sinister line.
Sceptical as I was, there was something impressive in the assurance of Dacre's manner, and my extraordinary surroundings, the huge room with the strange and oftensinister objects which were hung round it, struck solemnity into my soul.
For several days I have been laid up by the vagaries of an English spring, and during those days there have been developments, the true and sinister meaning of which no one can appreciate save myself.
What inhuman hypocrisy, what hateful depth of malice against his successor must underlie these sinister nocturnal labours.
Sometimes they seemed to be tiny points of extreme brilliancy--little electric sparks in the black obscurity--then they would widen and widen until all that corner of the room was filled with their shifting and sinister light.
We were silent for a moment while I digested this sinister injunction, and the rocker "registered" the indignation of a respectable Englishwoman.
I knew now that I was in great danger of some kind, that I was being played with by sinister and evil forces, that, perhaps purposely, I was being terrified and bewildered and mystified.
His voice took on a sinister note as he held the glass forcibly to my lips.
This sinister prediction is almost invariably accomplished: the Galleys or the Bridewell, each sex has its destiny.
I said he might tell them that if the girl had been left to them to look after her, she would have got into rooms in--I named the street, and testified to the sinister character of the house.
You would have said that that creature with the black-and-white body and the terrific bowels of machinery had some sinister and magic power over him.
With its black nose and white flanks, and its black hood and the black wings of its splash-boards, it was some terrible and sinister and malignant monster of prey hunting down Viola.
And through the fitful dreams that so often attend sunlight sleep, there flitted furtively the ill-matched figures of his mother and the mysterious wanton, confused in a sinister identity beyond all possibility of disentanglement.
From a table on his right came sinister mutterings.
Gaupa felt quite convinced that the raven is a sinister bird.
They were shadows, spirits, ghosts, sinister forebodings of blood and destruction.
The owl is a sinister bird and predicts death, and Gaupa felt quite creepy listening to the sound of the voice.
His large features and long visage, shaded by coarse long black hair, had a gloomy and sinister expression, which reminded the people but too much of his detested father.
And there was a sinister threat in them too which seemed to say: 'Require nothing of her that I do not approve of, or you will be turned into stone on the spot.
Should she jealously snatch Irene from his arms and carry her back to the gloomy temple which now--after she had fluttered awhile in sportive freedom in the sunny air--would certainly seem to her doubly sinister and unendurable?
Although the great fortress-palace was to subsequently acquire a most sinister reputation as a state prison, yet the present is the first recorded instance of the committal of a great and notorious offender to its dungeon cells.
The Freddie Palmer he was showing to her was a surprising but perfectly logical development of a side of his character with which she had been familiar in the old days; she was watching for that other side--the sinister and cruel side.
His youth, his good looks, his charm made the sinister savagery hinted in the smile the more disconcerting.
The boy's manner was very deferential, but the ears of Francis caught the sinister meaning that lurked beneath his words.
His face thin and sinister was of a pale sickly color while his eyes, black and glittering, held the gaze with a basilisk glare.
She drove every day about the streets in a state coach, attended by an escort of guards; the King was always by her side, and his presence was intended to give the lie to many sinister rumours.
But sinister rumours were afloat concerning him and his pleasures, and he had already by his puerile amusements and dissipated conduct forfeited to a great extent the public respect.
On the speckled side of his face he has no eyebrow, and on the other side he has a bushy black one, which want of uniformity gives him a very singular and rather sinister appearance.
Mr. Guppy suspects every body who enters on the occupation of a stool in Kenge and Carboy's office, of entertaining, as a matter of course, sinister designs upon him.
