There before me, somewhat abashed by her own unceremonious intrusion, her soft cheeks slightly flushed, radiant and in perfect health, stood my dead wife in the flesh!
I watched my love carefully, and saw, by her slightly flushed cheeks, that my arrival gave her the utmost satisfaction.
And lounging before me there in the low silken chair, her small mouth slightly parted, displaying an even set of pearly teeth, sat the victim--the woman who was unconsciously my wedded wife.
The tops of the Major's fingers and thumb of his right hand were thick and slightly deformed, while the skin was hardened and the nails worn down to the quick.
Your friend Raymond was slightly acquainted with her, and had been introduced to Beryl some months before.
I noticed, as we stood at the bar, that his hat bulged slightly on either side, and knew that in it was concealed his stethoscope.
A flash of indignant surprise passed across her features, now pale as marble; her lips were slightly parted, her large full eyes were fixed upon me steadfastly, and her fingers pressed themselves into the palms of her hands.
Like Uncle Tom's delusion that everybody who is known even slightly to the police is lurking in the garden, waiting for a chance to break into the house.
She bent her head slightly over the keys, and said, "I like to sing you anusser.
It was as though the old-fashioned, unweighted window-sash, having been slightly lifted, had slipped from the fingers and fallen shut.
As I beckoned Senda in, Mrs. Smith motioned for me to come to her where she stood at a window whose sash she had slightly lifted; the same to which the moth had once been lured by the little puddle of sweet drink and the candle.
Romanists refusing to be converted, and that the word he uses, and which we have rendered as “destroying,” really means something slightly less drastic.
His chin and mouth protruded slightly and gave an impression of firmness; a slight frown denoted irritability; over his right eye there was a large wart; a lock of curly hair overhung his forehead.
The waiter, a fine-looking young fellow, wearing a slightlydistinctive uniform, now made his appearance.
This is, in fact, a part of our house, slightly detached from the rest," he replied.
Footnote 3: In a sea-view, owing to the rotundity of the earth, the real horizontal line is slightly below the sea line, which is noted in Chapter I.
That is to say, we are looking on this scene from a slightly raised platform.
If two figures are in the same coloured dress, and are standing one behind the other, then they should be ofslightly different tone, so as to separate them.
The hard-wood shields are carved from a solid piece of mulga, are grooved to turn spears, and slightly curved for the same purpose.
Presumably the eggs are hatched by spontaneous heat, the green twigs and leaves producing a slightly moist warmth, similar to that of the bird's feathers.
Deviating slightly to the South from our former course, we were again between two ridges, one of which was the same that we had followed along before.
I have elsewhere made the suggestion, which I venture here to reproduce, that Bonaparte may also be a name of German origin, slightly changed to give it a seeming meaning in Italian.
I never gave up working on that delicious clitoris, and even gave little bites now and then, as she reclined backward, sighing each time I slightly relaxed my efforts.
Gently parting the abundance of reddish golden hair, I found the slightly gaping lips of her vagina bedewed with pearly drops of creamy love juice, which she must have emitted in the excitement of whipping me.
She placed a chair for me, then saying she would just tie up her hair, stepped into the back bedroom, leaving the door slightly ajar.
It is very possible that in becoming so, he has lost something of his occidental savour, the quality which excites the goodwill of the American reader of our author's Journals for the dislocated, depressed, even slightly bewildered diarist.
But in such things as The Birth-Mark and The Bosom-Serpent, we are struck with something stiff and mechanical, slightly incongruous, as if the kernel had not assimilated its envelope.
The room we entered was slightly furnished, but singularly in keeping with each other were the few ornaments, unsurpassably effective.
She was at school with me, and I was taught by her how slightly I had learned all things; she had learned too much, and of what men could not teach her.
Hair and dress were tumbled, the latter slightly soiled with the dust of the road, as were her boots also, and the frill about her neck was crushed and partly tucked in.
No," she said, coloring and dropping her eyes with a slightly mortified air.
His eyes burnt with a brilliant glow, and his face was slightly flushed, radiant at the success of his flank movement.
Lee, with the divisions of McLaws, Anderson, and Early, was slightly stronger.
Upon each of these balconies two torches of white wax were placed, one at each end of the balcony, supported upon the balustrade, slightly leaning outwards, and attached to nothing.
From June to September of this year (1696), we did little but subsist and observe, after which we recrossed the Rhine at Philipsburg, where our rear guard was slightly inconvenienced by the enemy.
La Trappe, These Memoirs are too profane to treat slightly of a life so sublimely holy, and of a death so glorious and precious before God.
In reply he turned his back upon them, and went away into his cabinet, leaving these people slightly bewildered.
Arenberg wasslightly wounded, but Breakstone was untouched, and the three still kept close together.
Phil was slightly grazed in the side by a bullet, and a lance had torn his coat on his shoulder.
Here the unhurt and those hurt slightly were building fires, and they had begun to cook food and boil coffee.
Tagg, who was slightly lame, though active as a cat on board ship, was not able to walk fast.
Yet, with the inborn instinct of the hunter and scout, Royson unslung his carbine and held it across the saddle-bow as he urged his horse slightly in front of the short-striding Somali.
Gertie's sympathy with the invalid of Morden Place found itself slightlydiminished on Monday morning.
In many lamps it is found that the first effect of running the lamp is slightly to increase its candle-power, even although the voltage be kept constant; this is the result of a small decrease in the resistance of the filament.
The intrinsic brightness of the flame of oil burners increases only slightly with their focal diameter, consequently while the consumption of oil increases the efficiency of the burner for a given apparatus decreases.
The current to be examined is made to pass up one wire and down the other, and these wires are then slightly displaced in opposite directions.
This material is non-conductive when cold, but when slightly heated it becomes conductive and then falls considerably in resistance.
The heating to which it is subjected slightly increases the density of the carbon at the outset; this has the effect of making the filament lower in resistance, and therefore it takes more current at a constant voltage.
The burners employed are all made on the same principle, but differ slightly in details according to the type of lighting apparatus for which they are intended.
Harley stood upright, his face slightly flushed and his eyes very bright.
Beyond the sun-dial and slightly to the left of it, viewed from where we stood, a faint, elfin light flickered, at a point apparently some four or five feet above the ground!
Harley, standing up, and I saw that his eyes were very bright and that his face was slightly flushed.
Now, as Mr. Colin Camber had thus spoken in the serious manner of a slightly drunken man, I had formed the opinion that I stood in the presence of a very singular character.
As I had judged to be the case, he was slightly bemused, but by no means drunk, and although his question was abrupt it was spoken civilly enough.
She slightly shook her head, and I saw the pupils begin to dilate.
She had slightly curling hair and the line of her neck and shoulder was most graceful and charming.
She had a rapid way of speaking, and possessed a slightly husky but fascinatingly vibrant voice.
Her complexion was slightly but cleverly made up, with all the exquisite art of the Parisienne, but even through the artificial bloom I saw her cheeks blanch.
Frowning slightly he looked from Harley in my direction, and then back again at Harley.
The Ashbury stock was slightly larger with more head room than the Metropolitan.
April 11th came and proved nothing else than a slightly belated "All Fools Day"!
During this brief conversation between Harvey Hamilton and Detective Pendar, the prisoner stood slightly to one side with his bare head bent and his face looking like that of some baffled imp of darkness.
Harvey slightly advanced the lever and the aeroplane began descending a little way in front of the train.
Several hundred feet up in the air and slightly to the north, the gleam of a red light showed.
The youth speeded up the motor so as slightly to add to the propeller’s revolutions, but he showed no gain in swiftness.
She whirled about, and almost fell from her chair, for standing in the doorway was a second member of the Black Hand, in the person of Amasi Catozzi, who had been slightly wounded by the revolver of Detective Pendar.
He leaned slightlyforward and looked down at the world sweeping under him.
Harvey, who was slightly in advance of his companion.
Yes," said Mr. Hamlyn in a slightlymore relieved voice.
He turned slightly in his seat, and reached for a rug.
Thank you," she replied, in a voice perhaps slightly more husky than usual.
Instantly Rosamund noticed that he looked slightly ill at ease, almost, indeed, embarrassed.
One of the jurymen, who was too fat, and had something of the expression of a pug dog, opened his mouth and rolledslightly in his seat.
Since the Mrs. Clarke episode Dion had been aware that Guy's feeling towards him had slightly changed.
I s'poses," observed Robin meditatively, slightly wrinkling his little nose where the freckles were.
His white face, typically French, with its rather long nose, slightly flattened temples, faintly cynical and ironic lips and small but obstinate chin, was almost sinister in its complete immobility.
Lady Ingleton slightly reddened; she looked down and hesitated.
His eyes rested on Mrs. Clarke, and a faint smile went over his face as he slightly raised his hat.
I wonder when Rosamund will get to know her," said Daventry, with perhaps a slightlyconscious carelessness.
If you had shown it to me I might feel very differently," Dion said, with a perhaps slightly banal politeness.
There had been something slightly whimsical about his final words, about his manner and himself when he said them.
Dion to Thrush, in theslightly rough or bluff manner which he now sometimes assumed.
Slightly dressing herself, she threw on a warm dressing-gown, and stole down the stairs.
Maria had invited him to a chair, and sat near him, her elbow leaning on the table, and her face slightly bent.
She was slightly larger, but not a whit less handsome, than on the day you first saw her at the meet of the hounds: Charlotte Pain.
I was going to pay in two thousand pounds, sir," said he, slightly lifting the bag to indicate that the money was there.
The arm between the elbow and the wrist is slightly scorched.
A stronger gust sent the leaves rustling up the path, and Mrs. Hastings slightly shivered.
He turned quickly, his face flushing slightly with surprise when he saw them standing there: and he shook hands with them both.
Sir George's eyes, as he was slightly raised to take the medicine, had fallen upon some object at the other end of the room, and continued to be strained on it.
