But the strong right hands of Inspector Cameron and Police Constable Fraser tightenedon his arms and restrained his further action.
Oh, it will be a merry day for me, that day when the cord is tightened round his false neck!
Suddenly, however, he ceased speaking and, with a gesture that was habitual to him, tightened the long red sash which he wore under his green-stained coat.
Another piece of wood, or bark, or leather, is then placed over the forehead and tied to the plank with strings which are tightened more and more each day until the skull is shaped to the required pattern.
Eleanore suddenly tightened at this, a quick sympathy came into her eyes.
As at times the police lines tightenedand the negroes came out for more freight, thousands of ominous eyes looked on.
Of course," he answered; his hand tightenedon hers.
Her cough was troubling her again, shaking her thin body, fighting its way through her tightened throat.
Leaving the shop with a mien even more erect than usual, with a gait affected in its majesty, and his blanket tightened around him to conceal his secret treasure, the chuckling chief would start to cross the grounds within the fort.
Drumsheugh held his friend's hand, which now and again tightened in his, and as he watched, a change came over the face on the pillow beside him.
Ye 'ill no fail me," and her poor cold hand that had tended him all his days tightened on his head.
Ay, we'll give him time," said Dave with his face tightened so that the ruddy portion of his lips had disappeared, and his mouth was represented by what seemed to be a scar extending right across the lower portion of his countenance.
That is to say, the donkey tightened the traces, stuck his hoofs into the ground, tugged for a minute without moving the stump, and then gave up.
Indeed Papa Mosenstein tightened the strings of his money-bags even more securely than he had done in the past.
I carried it, tightened away, usually, in the lining of my coat, but occasionally I left it under the mattress of my bunk.
But the scowl of Barnabas grew only the blacker, his lips but curled the fiercer, and his fingers tightened their grip upon the bludgeon as, alone now, he fronted those who remained of the nine.
Then his eyes began to swim with what in the case of a European would certainly have been called tears, and his throat tightened once more with the same sensation he had a few minutes previously experienced.
He tightened his left arm against his side and let a fold of the ragged kaross hang over it like a bag.
And yet it was something less cold than the experimenting instinct tightened her throat as she looked at the frail figure of the girl for whom life had been too much.
And a thought or a vision gripped that spirit, and he tightened under it as a muscle would tighten.
His face hardened, then tightened with pain in the thought of those being the conditions Ann was meeting.
Then she got up and dressed and shuddered when she looked at herself in the mirror, and tightened her stays.
Secretly she still watched for the appearance of signs to indicate her condition and secretly she tightened her stays, long before any signs could appear.
It doesn't seem as if--" She broke off abruptly and tightened on her reins.
I've had enough--" Stratton's lips tightened and he passed on out of hearing.
The boys dismounted, loosened their cinches, pulled forward the blankets, tightened the cinches again, saw to it that their ropes were well arranged, and then everything was ready.
Again the reins tightenedfor a second, again they were loosened.
Barnacles tightened the traces, the sprit-sail did its share, and in an amazingly short time the odd vehicle was spinning toward Sculpin Point at a ten-knot gait.
Yes, it might be, but had the sorrel ever tightened the traces for a dash up a ferry bridgeway when the tide was out?
All, with a certain solemnity, felt the swelling abdomen, seeking in its tightened surface the outlines of the hidden creature.
He was gently polite when she spoke to him but he hardly noticed her until, as they went down through the orchard, his little hand tightened suddenly on hers, and he pressed against her skirts.
The child quivered and his handstightened on his bundle, but he said nothing.
To hear that Indians had been seen so close to the settlement caused a thrill to pass through the heart of the boldest man; and the hands that clutched their guns tightened convulsively on the weapons.
Sandy tightened his belt; and there even was something suggestive of what was in his mind about that little action.
Annie's arm tightened round her shoulders, for she thought the distraught woman was about to faint.
Spill the news, Reddy," he commanded, as his arm tightened about her.
She moved in his embrace and her arms tightenedabout his neck.
The heavy pistol steadied into line with his chest and her fingertightened on the trigger.
Her arms tightened about his neck as they kissed each other fervently and he whispered in her ear: "Sweetheart wife, isn't it great to be back on our good old Earth again?
His arms tightened around her and his breath came fast.
At this reply his arm tightened involuntarily, but he forced it to relax.
As his hand tightened upon the lever, a succession of shells burst upon the dock, wrecking it completely, all three men fancied that the world had come to an end as the stream of high explosive was directed against their vessel.
Jarvis tightened his grasp on the reins after his old choleric fashion, and the mare leaped forward as if expecting the cut of the ready lash.
His mouth, long, straight, expressionless, and shaded by a closely clipped mustache, tightened as Barbara Preston entered.
If not,—his strong fingers unconsciously tightened on the reins, and the obedient mare quickened her pace.
Once they thought Chunky was going to fall off and put a sudden end to their fun, but he soon righted himself, whereupon he tightened the grip of hands and legs.
It dropped over the shoulders of Mr. Simms' delicate young son, tightened about his arms with a jerk.
These the boys tightened and prepared to mount when Tad happened to think of something.
The lad tightened on the reins ever so little, and the pony pricking up its ears moved away with scarcely a sound, as if realizing that extreme caution were expected of it.
