I reckon ye've done heered tell of him, hain't ye?
Look at those mismated eyes and determine whether or not this is the man who blocked the state-house doorway--the assassin who laid low a governor!
Reflecting now upon the devious methods and motives of mountain intrigue, Gregory's eyes grew somewhat flinty as he bluntly inquired, "How does ye mean hit's a mincy business?
The young Emperor's ambition to impress upon his realm the stamp of western civilization had made him, for two years, a virtual prisoner to the Empress Dowager and her reactionaries.
Yes, for the pain, the cold clutch on her heart of the discovery was like the throes of death.
The old merchant's face was working as if in the throes of death; he leaned forward, his eyes wide in growing horror.
They stood at the side door of the ballroom and scanned the laughing couples sitting in rows in the throes of the cotillon.
The progressive elements of Russian society which were themselves in the throes of a great crisis reacted feebly upon the sufferings of the Jewish people which had become the scape-goat of the counter-revolution.
Poland and the Baltic region were in the throesof terrorism.
It is said that the British ship in her final throes made a gallant attempt to ram the enemy.
The Scharnhorst was soon in the throes of her last agony.
On the Saturday when Eleanor saw Quin in the park with Rose Martel, the factory had been in the throes of one of its most violent upheavals.
No great truth was ever born into the world, without the throes of suffering of those who bore it.
He with his thrice three million thirsting Worlds in the throes of death and life Surely has time to spare for choosing Your behooven wife!
In fact, Pernambuco was in the throes of improvement.
Under other circumstances I should have been confident enough of making a sure one; but just then I felt my nerves shaking through the throes of my excited heart.
Lady Jezebel pulled back in the throes of a wild fear, and the buckskin plunged madly to get free.
He listened to their chaff, boisterous, uncultured; their savage throes of passion and easy comradeships.
Michael was surprized to find how much more eloquent he was in the throes of disappointment than he had ever been through the prompting of passion.
The throes come on, are distressingly violent, and continue until the womb is ruptured.
This sometimes occurs during the throes in difficult cases of parturition in cows, and the aid of a skillful veterinary surgeon is requisite to replace the inverted bladder.
The old gabled house was in the direthroes of packing.
Maggie came to the sitting-room door a few moments later in the last throes of astonishment.
Austria has openly repudiated all the liberal institutions forced upon her during the first throes of the convulsion, and avowedly based the government upon the army, and the army alone.
Less violent in the outset, but more disastrous far in the end, were the means by which Austria was brought through the throes of her revolutionary convulsion.
The throes must cease, or the bitch appear exhausted by lying on its side, and emitting low moans before any aid is offered.
I have known the bitch, when the throes were energetic, to be placed in the warm bath; and under its action to have indeed been quieted, for the pains never subsequently returned.
If the throes are on, and strong, though evidence of pain be heard, we must not be too quick to interfere.
The two being obtained, gentle force or traction may be through them applied while thethroes are on.
When the pup is partly born, and its passage appears to be delayed, either through the feebleness of the throes or some mechanical impediment, assistance should be afforded.
When the throes come on, the uterus will contract; and beneath the hands it will be then felt a hard, harsh, and solid body.
When thethroes are on, the efforts may be assisted.
Such was the dream of the discontented, which, transformed into action might well have plunged England again into the throes of civil war.
All England was then in the throesof the excitement of the Popish Plot and the Exclusion Bill, and civil war seemed almost in sight.
Your country, even now struggling in the throes of its later birth, has desperate need of you.
In the background of all our thoughts at all times has been the solemn consciousness that the destiny of mankind was at work in mighty throes toward an end hidden to our knowledge if not to our faith and hope.
Cut off from world and life by the walls and the curtain of night, they seemed to be whirling in the throes of a frenzied labyrinthic nightmare, and around them swirled wails and curses that would not die.
His hurriedly combed hair, matted with cider, had dried in spots and stuck out in confused thickets, as though the man had not slept for several nights, wallowing in the throes of superhuman terror.
He is in the throes of a raging fever, which affects his brain as his blood.
In the spectacle of death, in the throes and struggles of an expiring creature, even though it be but a dumb brute, there is something that never fails to excite commiseration, mingled with a feeling of awe.
Basil pondered, as if the solution of the problem in his mind had at last presented itself, but had again left him, unsatisfied, in the throes of doubt and fear.
Taking up one of the candles, he led the way, trembling, his face ashen, his teeth chattering, as if in the throes of a chill.
Earth and the air seemed breathless, as if in the throes of some mysterious excitement.
The tall sinewy form by her side watched her as a physician might watch in his patient the workings of a new disease, then Hormazd said in low and tranquil tones: "You are in the throes of your own overworked emotions.
