Liszt heard of this, and turned it into a joke, telling people that at the time set for the next lesson I appeared at the Altenburg with my hand in a sling, and said that I had strained my wrist while hunting, and would be unable to play.
Yet, in spite of his weariness, he held her wrist in both his hands, and she could feel his fingers searching for the opening in her glove.
Victoria sat back in her chair, and, glancing at the little watch she carried on her wrist in a leather strap, saw she still had ten minutes to think.
Some two hours later, he glanced at his wrist watch, pushed back the chair, got up from the desk and went over to the big grandfather clock to confirm his surmise.
And then-- His glance touched the desk across the room, and now he noticed his missing wrist watch on it.
His wrist watch seemed to be the only item missing.
Her wrist was lame from gripping the wheel so hard and she felt it gingerly.
Very soon after their receipt, I got my right wrist dislocated, which prevented me long from writing, and as soon as that was able to bear it, I took a long journey, from which I am but lately returned.
A dislocatedwrist not yet re-established, obliges me to conclude here with assurances of the perfect esteem and respect with which I have the honor to be, your Excellency's most obedient, and most humble servant.
As to myself, my health is good, except my wrist which mends slowly, and my mind which mends not at all, but broods constantly over your departure.
I was unlucky enough to dislocate my right wrist five months ago, and though it was well set, I can yet make no use of it but to write.
SIR,--I received the honor of yours of September the 18th, a day or two after the accident of a dislocated wrist had disabled me from writing.
SIR,--A dislocation of my right wrist has for upwards of three months prevented my writing to you.
DEAR SIR,--A dislocation of my right wrist has for three months past, disabled me from writing except with my left hand, which was too slow and awkward to be employed often.
Kypris first he wounded in close fight, in the wrist of her hand, and then assailed he me, even me, with the might of a god.
He turned with increased fury upon this meddler, but his other wrist was caught and held in a vise-like grip.
Again he dropped his revolver back into the holster, seizing the wrist of the outlaw to release that terrible clamp on his throat.
Hitched around his right wrist was the kite string, and between his legs a stick spindled with an extra hundred yards.
They bathed and bound the bleeding wrist and coaxed her back to consciousness.
She caught at the wire as she went down, and missing, raked her wrist across a barb until she tore a bleeding gash.
There's another, tall as me waist, with a bill a foot long, a neck near two, not the thickness of me wrist and an elegant color.
Ere the knife could be brought down, Phil gripped the wristholding the weapon, giving the wrist a quick, sharp twist that brought a roar of pain from Diaz.
The others, not noting that the clown was hurt, and that his wrist had been twisted by the Circus Boy almost to the breaking point, turned back to their own corners and continued their labors preparatory to entering the ring.
Phil calmly stooped and picked it up, while the clown was nursing his wrist and groaning.
Soon the sparks began to pour forth, and not a few came down on the bare wrist and forearm.
Kurt, standing on something in the dumpster that crackled, reached down and grabbed him by the wrist and hoisted him up.
He went up the stairs and closed the cabinet, then folded her fingers around the robot and led her by the wrist back down to the sofa.
Then he grabbed Krishna's wrist and pulled hard, yanking the boy off his feet, slamming his chest into the railing hard enough to shower dried spider's nests and flakes of paint to the porch floor.
Roughly seizing him, the two men forced him stiffly upright in the chair, drew his arms about the back of it, and there secured them, wrist to wrist, drawing the knot until Alex almost cried out in pain.
He felt he had to do with one whose wristwas as firm as his own.
She suddenly seized Melanie's tender wrist with her iron-strong right hand, and pointed with her ill-foreboding first finger to that still whiter blank circle remaining on the white finger of her white hand.
Emma thought, and was; moved to feel at the wrist for her darling's pulse.
Jeff's heavy hand caught the man's wrist in a grip that was like a vise.
On the floor of it lay a large heap of dirty shirts and trousers, and nested squarely in the center of the pile was a heap of gold rings and wrist watches.
He held up his wristbefore her eyes and showed her the gold watch.
Next moment a hand fastened on his wrist and he thought Walters had come to his help.
Then he thought he heard steps, but his hearing was dull, for there was a sound like bells in his ears and the hand fastened on his wrist again.
At this name of Waterloo, Marius, who was leaning his elbows on a table, beside a glass of water, removed his wrist from beneath his chin, and began to gaze fixedly at the audience.
Instead, he brought his fist down on the upper part of his right wrist with a quick violence, which, for the second time, knocked the knife from the grasp of the more sinewy warrior.
With a quickness which the eye could scarcely follow, he snatched the wrist of the boy's hand and bent it back with such force that poor Jack was glad to let the weapon fall to the ground.
Jack folded his arms, so as to bring the injured wrist against his left side and under his elbow.
Swiftly he pulled away the broken wires and fragments of the shattered framework, beneath which the form of his companion was pinned, then knelt and laid his finger on the wrist of the unconscious man.
He bent forward, dug the needle into the wrist of the American and shot the plunger home, all in a single movement so swift and deft that the drug was delivered before the pain could startle the victim from his coma.
I seized his wrist, and after a brief struggle wrenched the knife from his hand, but still holding his wrist told him that unless he grew quiet I should have to box his ears.
At this I released his wrist and told him he should be accommodated.
He was not familiar with the wrist movement by which the smallest bodied of the three men was producing a knife from his sleeve.
Forcing up his captive's arm, he promptly snapped one steel wring on his own wrist, and one on thewrist of the still prostrate man.
As the cement seller, responding to that tug, pivoted about, it was noticeable that the man to whom his wrist was locked by the band of steel duly duplicated the movement.
Not being able to get a look at her wrist watch, Verbeena then lost all sense of time.
The next day Augusta's wrist was considerably swollen, and she was in such pain that when Miss Roy went to see her she immediately said the doctor had better be sent for.
In doing so she gave her wrist intolerable pain, and very nearly fainted.
Here I am back again, battered, torn--oh, how my wrist aches!
