And if he followed his daughter into that ship's cabin it was as if into a house of disgrace and only because he was still bewildered by the suddenness of the thing.
But suddenly, as he went falling, slipping, clutching wildly at the elusive weeds, he was brought up with a suddenness that drove the breath from his body.
Then it came with a suddenness and force that was strong enough to bowl over even a man of strong heart.
She had kept the small flashlight aimed at the distant yellow flash of fire less than a moment when, with a suddenness that was startling, the glow on the distant mountain crest vanished.
The next moment the board gave way with a suddenness that all but knocked Florence from the chair upon which she was perched and showered her with an accumulation of aged dust.
Langham had known in his calmer moments when he planned Joe's death, that his only hope of success lay in the suddenness of his attack.
In the suddenness of the attack he was forced toward the edge of the bridge.
She laughed now as she had laughed then--a hearty little burst of surprise in the suddenness of the meeting.
General, abruptly turning to another subject, and somewhat confusing his deliberate overseer by the suddenness of the inquiry.
Exception ought to be made for the face, no doubt, seeing that the suddenness of the movements in facial tic is precisely what complicates the diagnosis between it and facial spasm, as we shall see.
Bergeron's chorea affects children chiefly, and is characterised by the suddenness of its onset and the rapidity with which it attains its maximum.
He was in the lead, and the girl disclosed herself with such surprising suddenness that she seemed a spirit conjured up in a blink of the eye.
Quesada was sunning himself before the hospital, according to his daily wont, when Ferou appeared around one mud wall with the suddennessof a jack-in-the-box.
I will," was the answer, given with a violent suddenness which made Peckover start.
Then with a suddenness which made the two jump (for he was beginning to get on their nerves) he plunged again into his blood-stained narrative.
Owing either to the suddenness of the demand or the spell of his sister's masterful glare, the small mind which dominated the mass of muscle seemed paralysed.
The trappers, who were as much surprised at the suddenness of the assault as it is in the mountain-man's nature to be, quickly recovered themselves.
The enemy threw down their arms and surrendered, with cheers at the suddenness with which they had been captured.
Two men were killed in this fight, and the camp thrown into confusion by the suddenness of the alarm.
His narrative is especially interesting, because it shows with what suddenness the storm assumed a dangerous character.
Johnstown was almost literally wiped from the face of the earth, the suddenness of the flood which created the havoc precluding the escape of anyone unfortunate enough to be in its path.
But the bravo was stupefied by the suddenness with which his rage had been cowed, his design baffled, his position changed from the man dictating laws and threatening life, to the man protected by his intended victim.
And there could not be a more instructive instance of the suddenness with which a human being can be brought into saving relation to Christ.
Common humanity and friendship ought to have shown you what this suddenness would lead to.
She now tried to learn from Aunty Losh what had become of him; but the poor old woman's mind was in such confusion from fright and from the suddenness of her rescue that she could not furnish much enlightenment.
III The suddenness of it startled Jill into silence.
The suddenness of the action sent a red-hot corkscrew of pain through Derek's head.
Then, with the suddenness of a shift of scenery, they topped what seemed to be a trifling rounded hill.
Oldham sat up, his face bleeding slightly, his eyes bewildered with the suddenness of the onslaught.
On leaving Summit station the train enters a short tunnel, from which it emerges with startling suddenness upon a light, iron bridge which spans, at a giddy height, a desolate gorge.
A poorga is a kind of Arctic typhoon justly dreaded on this coast, for its fury is only equalled by the suddennesswith which it overtakes the traveller.
The most astounding feature in the education of an elephant is the suddenness of his transition from a wild and lawless denizen of the forest to the quiet, plodding, good- tempered, and cheerful beast of draught or burden.
We can easily estimate the suddenness of the attack by the fact that alert and active Dick Rock had not time even to climb upon the fence of the corral, whereby his life would have been saved.
The character of the scenery had changed with the wondrous suddenness peculiar to the land in which they had come to dwell.
Her glance is riveted to the spot, and it seems as if she must fall to the ground beneath the suddenness of the shock, for she gazes upon a face which she had never expected to look upon again in life.
Sir Norman was so shocked by the suddenness of the last catastrophe, that, for some time, he could not realize that she had actually expired, until he bent over her, and placed his ear to her lips.
For the first few moments, she was altogether too stunned by the suddenness of the shock to cry out or make the least resistance, and was conscious of nothing but of being rapidly borne along in somebody's arms.
