All day the man lay with only his puffing blue lips and the twitching of his scraggy neck to show that he still held the breath of life.
There, framed in the doorway, was a huge twisted old man, gaunt and puckered, with twitching hands and shuffling, purposeless feet.
She had been taken to the dispensary once again, and now lay drowsy and dull, with little more movement than a general shudder and a twitching of the face at long intervals.
Dicky's face was damp and grey, and twitching lines were in his cheeks.
But Vandover suddenly discovered that he could not eat a mouthful, the smell of food revolted him, and little by little an irregular twitching had overcome his hands and forearms.
The cattle stood motionless, breathing loudly through their distended nostrils, the yokes on their shoulders crinking, their hides twitching under the torment of the flies.
Mrs. Todd met him, not with the expected torrent of tears, but with a face red and twitching in excitement.
His delicate hands ceased twitching and picking at Yuki's gown, and fell over limply on the floor.
With a wolfishtwitching at the corners of the mouth, which his utmost effort could not control, he slowly pushed his hand across the polished mahogany.
Surely in his twitchingface was more than a calm self-congratulation!
And when he lay there next to her with twitching limbs, like a thoroughbred hunting dog, she felt much too sorry for him to keep her promise.
Suddenly the poor girl sank backward, her head falling heavily upon his supporting arm, a peculiar shudder twitching her slender form.
And the ass, for its part, responded to the caress by rubbing its head against the boy's breast and by most energetically twitching its scrag of a tail.
Ned noticed a slight twitching of the Tumongong's facial muscles, and an intent look in his eyes, as if he were trying to understand the last words, which puzzled him.
I brought down two scuttling Aranians, so close that their twitching legs fell in an untidy heap almost at my feet.
His arms were held stiff at his side, and his face was twitching nervously.
Captain Dewey, his fingers twitchinganxiously in his eagerness to take hold of the glass through which Captain Steele was squinting.
This could have only one interpretation, and Nevins, twitching with nervous dread, was worrying the judge advocate with perpetual questions as to the witnesses for the defense.
The judge advocate sat for a moment as though stricken dumb, his eyes fixed and staring, his face pallid, the muscles of his compressed lips twitching perceptibly, his hand clinched and bearing hard upon the table.
His eyes, still steadily fixed upon the twitching face of Nevins, questioned further, and every man present strained his ears for the next word.
Under the direction of Jinnosuké the body with feebly twitching limbs was thrown into the now blazing mass of the temple.
This done, he drove the weapon through her throat and left her pinned to where she lay, the limbs feebly twitching in the last throes.
His nervousness was quite apparent, the trembling andtwitching of his hands being very perceptible.
Woodruff died hard, his struggles for breath being distinctly heard, and his limbs twitching convulsively.
The two mariners then made an investigation of his pockets, the clerk standing by the while paralyzed with horror, his face the color of dough, his scalp creeping, and his hands and fingers twitching as though with the palsy.
He stood rooted for he knew not how long, staring down at the dead face with twitching fingers and shuddering limbs.
Then this is really very serious," said Lord Reckage, with twitching lips.
His nebulous eyes with twitching lids were not improved by the gold-rimmed glasses which magnified their insignificance.
Rosa shrank in terror, her face growing pale and twitching nervously, while an inclination to run away with her barbarous but devoted champion took possession of her.
The trembling of the tiny hands and twitching of the delicate face betrayed a heart suffering which a child of her tender years should never know.
But in the dreadful silence, she turned slowly with her burden and looked steadily at the twitching face in the car--looked and looked.
One twitching hand dropped on his brother's shoulder; the other pointed down the path.
He also had a nervous contraction of the muscles of his face, causing an involuntary twitching of the eyebrows, and at the same time of his ears, up and down.
The first speaker quickly drew in her head, and I remarked a generaltwitching of muscles on the faces around me.
An abundance of animal spirits impelled us onward and we felt a peculiarly robust twitchingin our muscles.
It was like the twitching of an eel in the body of a musk-rat.
But now they were full of a deep anxiety as she lay there, a restless disquiet which showed itself also in her nervously twitching fingers.
He was certainly very pale, very pale indeed, and there was a slight twitching of his hands which was out of character with his absolute impassiveness.
Its deep pallor grew only a shade more livid, and there was a faint twitching of the features.
Kura, twitching out from under the hand, and stumbling backward, "did you bring me along, or did I bring you along?
Occasionally it would dive head down, but Everett always managed to check it, and it rose again, twitching from side to side.
Sally ran towards him; and at that moment Everett succeeded in checking the downward dive of the great kite, which rose slowly, tugging and twitching at its rope viciously.
Then Dick and Everett took the rope in their hands, called to the boy to let go, and began to run; and the kite rose, evenly at first, then twitching viciously from side to side.
Between Horse Shoe Bend and Hot Springs, where they were among the foothills and narrow valleys, his gaze was fixed steadily forward over his pony's restlessly twitching ears.
He saw Kiddie's finger twitching against the trigger, and knew for a certainty that Kiddie would not hesitate to shoot if his command were disobeyed.
The pony's ears were twitching nervously, and there was a change in the measure of its headlong stride.
It was the pony that gave him the first intimation of danger, by a sudden lifting of the head and restless twitching of the erect ears.
