And while she stammered out those little stabs of speech, tears of rage rolled down her cheeks.
Prince Hjalmar finds the corpse, and stabs the queen and himself; and the old king asks whether there will be salad for breakfast.
He screams, and fights with his hands; he draws out his knife and stabsinto the pack in front of him, but a large wolf springs upon him from behind and brings him to the ground.
There he has at any rate his back protected, but the eyes and teeth of the wolves gleam above him in the darkness, and he stabs at them with his knife.
Grinson swore again; in his present mood Meek's devotion was only less irritating than the stabs of the insects.
Grinson sat down with his mace across his knees, wiped his streaming brow, and looked with a sort of amused curiosity at sundry gashes and stabs on his arm.
But finally, at a word from the prompter, the spearman makes a tremendous run at the woman and stabs her in the umbilicus.
At the bidding of the prompter, the coward makes a furious sally in one direction, and with his spear stabs the empty air.
It is a fearful proof of the widespread nature of this contagion, that these secret stabs at religion and virtue are given from under the cloak (credite, posteri!
For he who settles Freedom's principles Writes the death-warrant of all tyranny; Who speaks the truth stabs Falsehood to the heart, 100 And his mere word makes despots tremble more Than ever Brutus with his dagger could.
I thought some few o' the stabs were in his heart, Or had not been so lavish: less had served.
Of all injured vanities, that of the reproved buffoon is the most savage; and when grave issues are involved, these petty stabs become unbearable.
He leaves me to bear all, and in the hour of trial he stabs me from behind.
And as he glared he pondered the words of advice offered by the old man with the twisted leg who sat upon Burrage's counter and punctuated his remarks with quick, jerky stabs of his stout, home-made crutch.
He leaned forward in his chair, punctuating his remarks with stabs of a huge forefinger upon the other's knee.
The most common cause of fracture of the navicular is that of stabs or deep pricks in the region of the point of the frog (see p.
The wretched, tiger-like father stabs himself in the presence of his crushed and erring daughter, so that she may forever be haunted by the horror and the retribution of his death.
He draws from his girdle a dagger and stabs himself to the heart; he falls and dies, and MARIA flings herself, swooning upon his body.
He then jumped upon his chest, and, stabbing downwards, as one stabs fish with a spear, pinned him through the neck.
As the stabs follow one another, to the sound of the clicking of the horns, and the mighty blowing and snorting of the breathless bulls, lift succeeds lift with amazing rapidity.
The son stabs his father, who is half a Gu`ebre, too.
Whereupon the disappointed lover draws his knife and stabs her through the heart.
Therefore, sirrah [stabs him], with a new wound in your thigh, come you along with me.
Stabs him] For this, amongst the rest, was I ordain'd.
The Wasp is acquainted with this anatomical secret: she stabs the caterpillar again and again, from end to end, segment by segment, ganglion by ganglion.
In one sitting the same mother stabs three larvae, one after the other, in front of my eyes.
All serious danger is averted by the stabs of the first act; therefore, the Wasp is now able to work upon her patient without the haste displayed at the outset.
The Philanthus, a less scrupulous pirate, pounces on the Bee, stabs her to death and makes her disgorge in order to feed upon her honey.
When she finds a quarry, she stabs it on the spot, in order to immobilize it; and, again on the spot, she lays an egg on the ventral surface of the paralysed creature.
On returning to her Looper after the entr'acte devoted to the joys of success, the Ammophila stabs so swiftly that, on one occasion, I saw her obliged to begin all over again.
Her three thrusts in the caterpillar's thorax and especially the last, between the first and second pair of legs, are more prolonged than the stabs distributed among the abdominal ganglia.
But she yields to none in her ignorance of fencing; she stabs without method, at random.
If she catches sight of it, she seizes it by the neck and stabs it.
Then get some water and clean rag, and bandage me up a bit-- for besides the crack on the head you see I've got at least half a dozen assegai stabs distributed about my carcase.
The throat was cut from ear to ear, and the trunk was nearly divided by a terrible gash right across it just below the ribs, while from several assegaistabs the dark arterial blood was still oozing forth.
With my eyes again accustomed to the normal Earthlight in the valley, I could see the stabs of electronic beams, the Martian paralyzing rays and heat beams.
The laying of the rails was done under cover of occasional stabs from the electronic projector.
I could see light stabsfrom the cliff outside the main building.
Amelia stabs herself, but the confession of her maid reveals her innocence, and her wound is pronounced not mortal.
To the father he vindicates his action in much the same words as in Massinger's last court-room scene, and then, on the appearance of Novall Senior clamoring for vengeance and accompanied by the minions of the law, stabs himself.
One cannot read of the "wandering stabs of remorse" of which he speaks, without thinking of Highland Mary.
Whoever attempts, under whatever popular cry, to shake the stability of the public currency, bring on distress in money matters, and drive the country into the use of paper money, stabs your interest and your happiness to the heart.
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