Gloria, her brain gone suddenly numb, felt the grip on her arm tighten convulsively.

It seemed to me she could scarcely be expected to believe the truth of what I said, and yet she did, almost unquestioningly, the clasp of her fingers perceptibly tightening as I proceeded.

Miracles do happen!" Her arms tightened involuntarily about him.

If it shows the same lead for the reverse motion you are then ready to tighten your eccentrics securely, and they should be marked as before.

The slack gradually tightened.

I shall hold it fast'; and her little fingers emphatically tightened on mine.

The sharp pain maddened him, and his grip tightened so fiercely that he heard the breath whistle from his opponent's lungs.

" He took her little hand in his own; such a little hand it felt, that he could not help tightening his fingers fondly over it; and then they stood for a few minutes on the door-sill, while old Oliver looked anxiously up and down the alley.

They tightened hungrily about her.

Nor is it dealing artificially with ourselves to exert a force upon our minds against the false certainty of the resisting imaginationsuch a force as is necessary to enable reason to stand its ground, and bend back again that spring of impression against the miraculous which has illegally tightened itself into a law to the understanding.

You ain't gonna begin now, are you?" Bull's great fingers began to tighten on her wrist, slowly, inexorably.

Her grasp tightened on it insensibly, while she ground and gnashed her small white teeth, to think that she, with her proud nature, in her high position, should not be free to admit or deny what visitors she pleased.

The hands on her shoulders tightened insistently, the compelling face drew nearer.

Her lips were parted with her speed, so that, instinctively, his hands tightened on the reins as if he had thought that she was going to speak to him.

The word was spoken, and, having uttered it, Anthea grew suddenly hot with shame, and mightily angry with herself, and would, straightway, have given the world to have it unsaid; the more so, as she felt Small Porges' clasp tighten joyfully, and, looking up, fancied she read something like triumph in his look.

" Suydam's throat tightened miserably.

Cairns appeared presently through the infantry, and around the end of the picket-linea correspondent serving mule-riders with all the enthusiasm of a pitifully-tightened belt....

As they entered the denser gloom of the forest on the farther side Nathaniel felt the jailer's fingers tighten about his arm, then relaxand tighten again.

His hand tightened sharply.

She recognised Ida instantly; the colour rushed to her face; her hand tightened on her rein spasmodically; for a moment she felt inclined to turn aside, to ride away, escape from the girl she hated and loathed.

CLOSING IN ON LENS An advance by the Canadians in the neighborhood of the Green Grassier on the southern edge of Lens added greatly to the strength of the British line, which continued to tighten steadily about the heart of the city.

" The leader tightened his grasp threateningly, and Simpson, weeping tears of rage, surrendered the plunder.

It seemed to me she could scarcely be expected to believe the truth of what I said, and yet she did, almost unquestioningly, the clasp of her fingers perceptibly tightening as I proceeded.

" He stood for a moment longer, then abruptly his hold tightened upon her.

The hand upon his shoulder tightened warningly; but there came no other reply.