Jim's eyes are resolutely turned away from the face of Elizabeth, upon whose small white area twitches of pain are making cruel disfigurement.
But twitches of pain made her involuntarily moan in her dreams and groan in her sleep.
When he is going about on a tree, he jerks and twitches it all the time.
He jerks it up or down, or twitches it to one side or the other; or he flirts it open and shut like a fan, which shows the white edges and looks very gay.
It was no uncommon thing to see a team brought out to attach to a coach, one blinded with a rubber, two with twitches on their noses, and the fourth having his leg tied up till the moment of departure.
Mrs. Swiggs breaks out suddenly, then twitches her head and oscillates her chin.
And she twitches her head, and pulls closer about her lean shoulders the old red shawl.
Sister Swiggs twitches her head, begins to finger her pocket, and finally readjusts her spectacles.
I am glad of that," she says, looking querulously over her spectacles, as she twitches her chin, and increases the velocity of her rocking.
I've nothing to intercede about"--she twitches her head spitefully.
The babe wakes on being disturbed, and gives a faint short cry of distress; the livid hue of its surface deepens, it struggles feebly, its mouth twitches as though convulsions might be coming on.
A child thus affected lies as though it were asleep, winks its imperfectly closed eyes, and gently twitches the muscles of its face--a movement especially observable about the lips, which are drawn as though into a smile.
My Oriole, my glance of summer fire, Is come at last; and ever on the watch, Twitches the pack-thread I had lightly wound About the bough to help his housekeeping.
Twitches and scouts by turns, blessing his luck, Yet fearing me who laid it in his way.
Ribot had rolled on his back and after giving a few feeble twitches of his great legs, remained without life, his legs pointing stiffly into the air.
If the eye twitches involuntarily some one will weep.
If the palm of the hand twitches often he will soon strike some one, or else he will become angry.
If any other part of the body twitches involuntarily some one will hit the person there or he will be stabbed or shot there.
You can almost forgive the male creature his compassionate contempt, as chucking her under the chin, he twitches it from her awkward little paw, and rounds, and tapers it off in the most ravishing manner, for durable use.
But King's Confessor Abbe Moudon starts forward; with anxious acidulent face, twitches him by the sleeve; whispers in his ear.
Lensky's face twitches with a painful, scarcely to be mastered emotion; he breathes difficultly.
Her flabby, wrinkled, painted face twitches a little, and taking Maschenka's head between both hands she kisses the girl on the forehead.
But how can I have the courage when she smiles at me, and twitches her little limbs so gayly, and so rejoices in life!
It is very common with teamsters and others, when they want to harness mules, to catch them by the ears, put twitches on their ears.
Even blacksmiths, who certainly ought to know better, are in the habit of putting tongs and twitches in their ears when they shoe them.
He closed the door that led up into the house, and coming over to the stove, where the remains of a fire still smouldered in a deep red glow, stood looking at her with nervous twitches of his reddened eyelids.
The deep flush across his face faded slowly, and dropping his restless, bloodshot eyes, he dug his foot into the mould with spasmodic twitches of his body.
The little girl jerks her tiny body in all directions, twitches her shoulders, blinks and hurries from door to door.
She rises haughtily from her seat, but the imprisoned skirt of her polonaise twitches her abruptly back into her chair.
The attention of the parents is soon drawn to the fact, but they seldom give much heed at first, since the twitches are limited preferably to the facial musculature.
The duration of a clonic tic convulsion may be exceedingly brief, though perhaps not so brief as the instantaneous "electric" twitches of a spasm, which have the extreme rapidity of pure reflex phenomena.
Some hours previous to the child's death the tic disappeared, only occasional slight convulsivetwitches of the right arm remaining.
The pains recurred at intervals till their substitution five years later for slight spasmodic twitches of the left eyelid, which gradually developed into violent convulsions of the whole of the left half of the face.
One of Oppenheim's patients was a child with alternating twitches of his two platysmas; it is of interest to note he was able to contract either voluntarily.
Heldenberg[185] applies the term intermittent functional myoclonus to twitches occurring from time to time in antagonistic muscles during voluntary movement, twitches exaggerated by excitement and diminished with rest.
The convulsive twitches of her buttocks, the pressure forward of her hand on my head, all proved the exquisite felicity my lovely friend was enjoying.
My agile finger soon worked her passions up, and I felt her bottom give convulsive twitches on my prick.
This was noticeable even in her dress, which was much more tight and trim than usual; and in occasional twitches of her head as she went about the house, which were mightily expressive of determination.
He has just one maggot in his head, which sometimes twitches and vexes him; he lets no traveller depart from him unbasted.
Literary Germany; a work (I believe of no great merit) which Richter often twitches in the same style.
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