As the afternoon wore on, and Fred did not make his appearance, a sudden deadly fear came over her at the thought of staying alone.

That the tenant of Rannoch had kept that secret tryst in daily patience I knew from my own observations, yet to me it scarcely seemed feasible that he would use a weapon so peculiarly Italian and yet so terribly deadly.

The sort pictured by Professor MARSHALL, and Mr. Punch, is, like the Serpent of Old Myth, not the would-be friend of labour-cursed mankind, but a deceiving and glosingly deadly "incarnation of the Enemy.

It seemed terrible and strange to her that one so gentle should be the object of so much hatesuch deadly hate as the members of Nick's gang felt for him.

Whether or not he understood how peculiarly deadly was the weapon he thus used against his friend, he knew that Helena was capable of exerting a powerful influence upon any manhow should he himself not know it, who was at her feet?

She had an intense desire to overhear such a conversation, and she felt that she would affront the unguessed perils of it with delight, drinking it up eagerly, every drop, even were the draught deadly.

And with awful fear on his face the wayfarer closed his sack, whimpering over his emeralds and furtively glancing round as though the loss of his secret were and utterly deadly thing.

Davis had begun the debate on the 7th of May by a savage onslaught on "Squatter Sovereignty"a fallacy, he said, fraught with mischief more deadly than the fatal upas, because it spread its poison over the whole Union.