It lay in hers, flaccid and inert, its dreadful passivity stinging her into realization of the truth.
The momentary weakness which had wrenched that brief, anguished appeal from his lips was past, and the dry scorn of his voice cut like a lash, stingingher into hostility once more.
Do we not need such visions as these to take us through the ice and snow and gray skies of a stinging winter day?
Marcia flies hither and thither like a wasp, stinging wherever she can, but in these days Violet is guarded a good deal by Polly and her lover.
I may as well explain to you," with a stinging emphasis, "that he is a good deal in debt and needs money.
Gertrude does not want hard or stinging words uttered that might stir up resentment.
While I was looking over, one of them struck me a stinging blow on the head, knocking my cap off into the air.
It was piercingly cold, but, despite the stinging freshness of the morning, he was sweating.
Your beer is like my words, strong, stinging gear.
Here, sir, here's a cup of stinging liquor; it is so thick that you may slice it, and came drivelling out as if the loving vessel had been loth to part with it.
All the birds cried from the west; the salt, stinging wind flung itself upon me from the west.
It was to toil through this under hot sun, with stinging clouds of insects.
Major-general Dundas, was so dilatory as to evoke from the good-natured general-in-chief a most stinging rebuke.
After somestinging comments upon this speech, Sir Robert Peel wound up the debate in one of his most plausible parliamentary addresses.
It was quite true, for the excitement at my sudden movement had started the wound stinging and aching.
Fancy him opposite to you day after day, stinging you with honeyed shafts and opposing you with obstacle after obstacle, while leering with hypocrisy.
He wrote sometimes with temperance and self-restraint, at others with stinging contempt and scorn.
As they crossed the Delaware that bitter night, the snow stinging and blinding, the river choked with blocks of ice, Hamilton for the first time thought on St. Croix with a pang of envy.
She has the eyes of ten thousand cats," quoth Ah Kim, ducking and receiving the stick stinging on his knuckles.
One afternoon, just as he reached the summit, a little street boy, probably by way of expressing the envy he felt for those who could afford to ride, threw a stone at Sable, which struck him a stingingblow on the hindquarters.
Madelene's insulting words, re-echoing in her ears, made her grow faint from stinging humiliation.
When the dwarf opened the outside door, the stinging gale slashed at the open portal.
Waldstricker's untimely appearance and his stinging taunts hurt and frightened her.
She knew well enough she was doing something unpardonable, but how could she stay calmly at home when stinging jealousy goaded her to action?
Misty sheets of stinging ice-particles drove from the northern skyline to the hill south of Ithaca.
It was a stinging night, and the moon was at the full.
No man has impaled snobbery with such a stinging rapier, but he always accused himself of being a snob, past all cure.
How suggestive both of the stinging that was sure to come and the folly, the absurdity, the cruelty to oneself of the act.
Few there are, who, at some time or other in their lives, do not have a taste, at least, of the stinging bite of envy.
Yet we find him speaking multa aspera, many stinging things to their spokesman, and recommending, as the monk said, prostration before the archbishop.
I am really tarter and more stinging than pepper, so that even when I am presiding over them at the chapter, the smallest thing fires me with anger.
Alexander, with stinging and satiric terms, left in a huff, followed by acrimonious epithets from his late brethren.
Count Rostopchin was mentally preparing the angry and stinging reproaches he meant to address to Kutuzov for his deception.
He became animated when he began reading his paper and specially drew Rostov's attention to the stinging rejoinders he made to his enemies.
On reaching the village he dismounted and went to the nearest house, intending to rest if but for a moment, eat something, and try to sort out the stinging and tormenting thoughts that confused his mind.
Only a few of them still move, rise, and feebly fly to settle on the enemy's hand, lacking the spirit to die stinging him; the rest are dead and fall as lightly as fish scales.
She perceived at a glance that he had learned who she was, and she hoped in a blind, aching way, that he had not betrayed his presence to the neighbors, thus to re-awaken all the old stinging flight of bitter words.
It was not the first stinging rebuke he had endured from the young autocrat, but he had the consolation of knowing that few or none of the court escaped the same infliction.
Is that shriek she utters human, Underneath the stinging lash?
It was difficult to find timber that would bear a heavy strain, and Thirlwell walked long distances in the stinging frost to look for proper logs, and now and then camped with his choppers behind a snowbank.
He had known poverty, hunger, and stinging cold, and now his pay left little over when he had satisfied his frugal needs.
At this stinging comment, Elmer opened his mouth as though he intended making a retort; but second thought showed him the futility of so doing, and buttoning up his coat, he nodded towards Snooks and left the store with the bully.
For the briefest second Clifford sat passive, then he let his riding whip fall in a stinging blow on the face of the fellow who held his bridle.
With this reflection she cast aside her scruples and, taking the whip out of its socket, let it fall in a stinging cut.
And smarting under this stinging rebuke, the unlucky Burlman Reynolds hastened to rejoin his dog, who, doubtless, was wondering why his two-footed comrade should all on a sudden become so intensely interested in a splintered stump.
The sight of the blood, and the stinging sensation of the wound, soon brought me to my senses again, and admonished me of the necessity of taking immediate steps to procure an antidote to the poison.
The stinging sensation, however, awoke me; and my eyes mechanically turned towards the hand, where I still felt pain.
