The son, whom he had poisoned, to render his house vacant for unhallowed nuptials, with his whole frame convulsed in agony, and the sardonic grin of death on his writhing lips, frowned on him.
I had meant to do a good deal of sight-seeing that day when I began with the Vatican; but I sat for hours in front of those writhing figures in their eternal torture.
Knowing that my cold and venomous eye was upon him, and writhing under it, he had to answer her questions.
Three minutes; stick fork in hum," said the cook with a cannibal glare at the still writhing pirate.
It was tossing and writhing among its chains, and had set itself crosswise, with the stern knocking against the wall.
Signor Giacomo exclaimed, writhing all over, and the engineer advised him to send his tormentors to the devil.
Huge tree-roots, like the naked bodies of black goblins writhing to get free, lay stretched across the rocks.
He found Long Ole walking about and writhing over one of his hands.
Then Pelle, boiling with rage, gave a jerk, closing his eyes and writhing as he loosed himself.
Instantly the rattle sounded sharp and clear, and out from the writhing folds shot the venomous head with its vicious eyes fixed on the boy.
The noise of his rattle grew fainter, and his eyes sank like waning fire-sparks into the writhing folds that settled on the moss.
What were the wounded men writhing on the slope above to this raw youth, what the red-haired coward with his whine, what the children robbed of their provider growing up to be beggars, to a life in the abyss, perhaps to a life in jail?
He dreaded a cry from the dying man for his dear ones, and when the mouth writhing with pain opened slowly, it sent an inner tremor through the captain.
And the writhing dissembler had to assent, and corroborate, and smile, while the yeasty waves frothed and bubbled furiously in their confinement.
Ida left her thus--writhing under the scorpion-lash of remorse, and rejecting consolation.
Dick instantly pressed the trigger; and as he did so the lioness rose into the air with a curious writhing movement, falling short of the spot where Grosvenor stood by about a foot.
With the barrel of his weapon he deftly whisked the still writhing body half a dozen yards away into the long grass, and then turned sharply to his friend.
I stood mute and motionless, staring upon the writhing and crushed wretch before me, unable to render him the least assistance.
As if satisfied with my identity, she accosted me with the same sarcastic writhing of the upper lip, which on our first interview had given me the key to her character.
It stood like a huge writhing wall between us and the horizon.
It was during one of my lonely journeyings, amid a far distant region of mountain locked within mountain, and sad rivers and melancholy tarn writhing or sleeping within all--that I chanced upon a certain rivulet and island.
Like these arabesque censers, my spirit is writhing in fire, and the delirium of this scene is fashioning me for the wilder visions of that land of real dreams whither I am now rapidly departing.
And at the roots strange poisonous flowers liewrithing in perturbed slumber.
At length for my seared and writhing body there was no longer an inch of foothold on the firm floor of the prison.
And for a long time he went up and down writhing as in pain, and even stamping and groaning aloud as he thought of this last scene.
Frank did so, and from the writhing of the naked body of the beautiful girl, she was evidently enjoying it.
The mesmerizer and his young friend knelt down also on the rug on either side of the tribades, and facing each other, embraced with the most apparent ardour across the bodies of the writhing and excitable girls.
Again and again we hauled them in, until the fore part of the deck was alive with the kicking, writhing sea pigs, at least twenty of them.
I felt in an agony lest we should be crushed under one of those fearful strokes, for Mr. Count appeared to be oblivious of possible danger, although we seemed to be now drifting back on to the writhing leviathan.
The writhing body of the giant captive is now thrown into strangely powerful action; fins and tail play with terrific violence, tossing up huge waves, and dashing the sea, for a considerable circle round, into foam.
He saw the couples on the floor clasped in each other's arms, writhing and turning, swaying back and forth, looking into each other's eyes and turned aside wishing himself back in his room among the law books.
As he looked into the protruding eyes of the writhing German he thought of fat Reverend Minot Weeks of Coal Creek and added an extra twitch to the flesh between his fingers.
Peter writhing on the cross, Stephen battered with stones, Sebastian stuck full of arrows, Bartholomew flayed alive," and so on.
The head of the reptile was to the left, and to break the dead weight of the great snake, the lad held itswrithing body up with his left hand.
Black writhing asps played before my face, scorpions were about me, and vultures, hovering above, flapped their great wings impatient to devour the carrion.
Dashing forward, I saw our Spahis had apparently been taken completely by surprise, four of them having fallen dead, and two were lying near, writhing under the agony of their wounds.
The reptile unfolded itself, and the slender coral body was seen writhing and twisting along the ground.
The monkey was now perceived to be twisting and writhing upon the branches, and its wild death-scream was answered by the voices of the others farther off.
They could still perceive the black body of the reptile upon the white sandbank, writhing and struggling, while the flapping wings of the vultures showed that they still kept up their terrible attack.
They danced in the darkness, writhing and twisting like fiery snakes.
He was for a while angry and contemptuous, professing to himself an indifference which he did not feel, and fancying himself superior to that weakness under which he was writhing and labouring in bitter agony.
After wiping the perspiration from his face, and writhing on his chair, however, he recovered a little of his self-command, and became comparatively composed.
Del Fortis looked down upon him with contempt, as though he were some loathsome reptile writhing at his feet.
These it seizes by descending with its wings half closed, and, suddenly darting down its talons, it soars aloft again with its writhing victim.
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