Despite the thrillingadventure of the night before, he was hungry and did ample justice to his meal.
And when you have told me all your adventures I will tell you mine, which were thrilling enough in all conscience.
A thrillingepisode of courage and romance which sensationally opens the story.
When the mask fell, it was too late: the power to resist the soft and thrilling enchantment was gone.
Once more they had met; once more he gazed upon that sunny and sparkling face; once more he listened to that sweet and thrilling voice, which sounded like a bird-like burst of music upon a summer morning.
And ever and anon the strange but thrilling breath of some rare exotic summoned you, like an angel, to opening Eden.
He no longer mused merely on his own voice and wit: he called up her tones of thrilling power; he imagined her in all the triumph of her gay repartee.
Mr. Curwood has given us an informative, thrilling and finely written book.
Sir Evelyn had a good voice, resonant and thrilling like the tones of a 'cello and he was telling his story well.
But as he waited, foodless, for the thrilling sight of her, depression came and sat heavy on his shoulders until he felt that in daring to think of her in the way of marriage he was committing an abominable crime.
Then suddenly his heart leaped with the thrilling inspiration of a wild impossibility.
She did not raise her voice, she hardly changed her tone, but nothing she had ever said had given him such a thrilling sensation of pleasure.
It was very hard to put the question, after all, now that he was so near her, and felt her thrilling presence.
With the curtain rung down on the thrilling drama whose theme had been dominated by love, work seemed to Boone increasingly the motif of things.
Boone saw Anne that evening and with a thrilling voice told her of McCalloway's return--but of the visit to the tailor he said nothing, and she refrained from reverting to the topic of the party.
It is written in exquisite Latin, and describes with thrilling vividness and cutting sarcasm the horrible abuses in the prevailing legal proceedings, particularly the use of the rack.
For people of Irish blood these islands, especially Saint Kitts and Montserrat, are of a thrilling interest.
Never shall I forget whatthrilling hours I spent in that room with the "Children of the Abbey.
It is nearly seventy-eight years since I awoke that morning, trembling and thrilling in every sense with the wonder and majesty of what I had seen, but the vision is not dim, nor any part of it forgotten.
And Jesus told the thrilling story of his life, and Hor and Lun and Mer spoke not; they only looked to heaven, and in their hearts praised God.
Cleophas said, Are you a stranger in Judea, and know not of the thrilling things that have transpired here?
Their sleeping ashes, from below, Send up the thrilling murmur, No!
The little party sat silently watching the light dancing and thrilling behind the house-tops; nobody spoke.
Rhoda was fast asleep and breathing softly; Dolly was kicking about in her own bed, and thrilling with terror and excitement, and thinking of what she had heard of the poor pretty lady downstairs.
My tale will contain no thrilling incidents, no hairbreadth escapes, or any of those startling events with which ideas of heroism are generally associated.
I was going to be angry with you after making such a thrilling stump-speech in my favor?
Yet there is efficiency even to that added expenditure--a verythrilling one, if the public would just stop once and think.
The essence of their beauty now is a certain thrilling familiarity--the same mystery that awakens us in an occasional passing face, which we are positive has not met these eyes before.
Upon the whole, then, Squire Atheling had not much satisfaction in his position; and every day brought some new tale of thrilling interest.
They were like a trumpet obligato in the distance thrilling their hearts with a keener zest and a wider sympathy.
It was long past midnight, but the moonlight was so clear I had been reading by it, and the mocking birds were thrilling the air, far and wide, with melody.
Preface THE writer of these thrilling chapters is a Keswick missionary, well known to many friends as the adopted daughter of Mr. Robert Wilson, the much-respected chairman of the Keswick Convention.
And again and again we read thrilling descriptions of India's women standing with their hands stretched out towards God.
Alicia, in the eagerness of telling her thrilling story, had somewhat lost her breath; but now she made a vigorous effort to resume.
But my flowers," she said, with a sudden access of timidity, brought forth by the thrilling ardour of his voice.
It was life, vibrant with expectation, thrilling with hope and fear, without a moment's loneliness.
But while this little thrilling byplay was engaging the attention of everyone far greater things were getting in train.
Frightening, macabre story of a lonely girl who conjures up a thrilling companion--who looks and acts like a boy but is clearly a girl.
The story of a thrilling airship raid by French officers comes from Arras.
A thrilling incident in the wonderful retreat of the British from Mons is described by Sapper Wells of the Royal Engineers, who passes lightly over his own part in an extraordinary act of heroism.
An officer gives this thrilling account of the affray: "After our successful advantage the Germans counter attacked with fearful violence.
Rainey, crossed the Channel from France in a much damaged machine, thus completing in a fitting manner a series of thrilling adventures which have befallen him since he last left English soil.
For I fancy that Savonarola's thrillingchallenge to the luxury of his day went far deeper than the mere question of sin.
Yet almost the whole of that thrilling scene consists of a ridiculous conversation about food, and flirtation between a frivolous old lawyer and a fashionable girl.
The Christianity of Tolstoy is, when we come to consider it, one of the most thrilling and dramatic incidents in our modern civilisation.
Perhaps the most profoundly thrilling of all Scott's situations is that in which the family of Colonel Mannering are waiting for the carriage which may or may not arrive by night to bring an unknown man into a princely possession.
