"Nuh, nuh! don't you do that," said the Boy with startling suddenness.

And in an instant, so quickly that no man wist what he did, he turned with amazing suddenness upon that knight who stood at his left hand, and he lifted up both hands that were bound, and he smote that knight such a blow upon the face that the knight fell down upon the ground and his sword fell out of his hand.

As for Mr. Elliot, the news of his cousin Anne's engagement burst on him with unexpected suddenness.

In the first place the influence of the habit of choosing the first box at the left disappears with surprising suddenness, and in the second place, there are remarkable contrasts in the results for different settings as they appear in their respective vertical columns.

Then, with appalling suddenness, a blacker shadow shot up from the deep night of the floor, and w

How worn-out you must have been, to sleep so!" "Do you always go to sleep with such alarming suddenness?" asked Mr. DIBBLE.

Alas, for the day when it is borne in upon us with a tragic suddenness, like a miser who awakens to find that he has been robbed of his hoard, that unaccountably the best part of the cake has been eaten, that perhaps indeed only a few desperate crumbs remain.

He turned upon her with frightful suddenness.

The General's air was suggestive of dire things, as with dramatic suddenness he produced from beneath the sideboard two enormous double-edged battle-axes, which careful polishing had made to shine as new.

In the twinkling of an eye the trappers sprang to their feet, and cocking their rifles stood perfectly motionless, scowling at the savages, who were completely taken by surprise at the unusual suddenness and informality of such a declaration of war.

The apparent suddenness of the appearance of multitudes of such organisms as these in any nutritive fluid to which one obtains access is thus easily explained.

In the midst of that excited gaiety, to which, until lately, he had been so long a stranger, would sometimes intervene paroxysms of the blackest despair, all the ghastlier for the contrast, and with a suddenness so abrupt and overwhelming, that one might have fancied him crossed by the shadow of some terrific apparition.

And as the car glided, without smell and without noise, through the encumbered avenues of London towards the centre, now shooting forward like a star, now stopping with gentle suddenness, now swerving in a swift curve round a vehicle earthy and leaden-wheeled, Priam grew more and more uncomfortable.

And then the end came with inevitable suddenness.

So that even the decent manufacturers felt pretty badly, not so much about the strike itself, as its, to them, inexplicable suddenness.

He moved with extreme rapidity and attacked with instantaneous suddenness, using ambushes and surprises wherever practicable.

All showed evidence of having dropped asleep with irresistible suddenness.

It shoots out now with the loud suddenness of a mismanaged soda-water cork.

" Her sobbing ceased with magic suddenness.

With such rapid suddenness has he disappeared round the house-corner.

Further, it appeared that a strike in the building trade had been followed immediately by a widespread failure of health among the bricklayers who were members of a certain benefit club; which accounted for the remarkable suddenness of the outbreak.

If she had fired a gun, James Rutlidge could not have turned with a more startled suddenness.

And Marcos' attempts to find diversions for her, ceased with a suspicious suddenness.

Then silence, complete and leaden, fell with uncanny suddenness.

The heat of the first two weeks of November changed with a most undesirable suddenness, and though the days continued agreeably warm on the plain into December, the nights became chilly and then desperately cold.