" He stopped and swallowed once or twice, as though his throat was dry, and I saw that his fingers were twitching nervously.

His brow contracted and his lips twitched convulsively.

Arms and legs twitched spasmodically, the ample torso was violently shaken by labouring lungs.

His lips remained parted over his next word, and one eyelid twitched violently.

The corners of her mouth twitched uncontrollably.

Thereupon he twitched the weapon deftly from out the Sheriff's hand, "Here, Stutely," he cried, "the Sheriff hath lent thee his sword!

The muscles of her shoulders twitched tremulously and she shivered as if stricken by intense cold.

His white face twitched strangely and his brow was clammy.

His moist blue eyes, blurred and bloodshot, twitched involuntarily.

Once down, his head gradually drooped until he lay at length, every now and again twitching very horribly with the pain and from time to time raising his head and even scrambling to his legs when it grew intense.

The Indian, having the firmest hold, began to draw the knife further out of its sheath, when Morgan, suddenly giving his finger a furious bite, twitched the knife dexterously through his hand, cutting it severely.

she saw a very glossy black hat come skipping down the steps, felt a violent twitch backward, and, to save herself from a fall, sat down on the lower step with most undignified haste.

" Just perceptibly the girl's lips twitched.

For Teresita twitched her shoulders pettishly and her reins dexterously, and so removed herself some distance from the kissing zone.

Once when an unusually bright beam of sunlight fell from between the clouds, he tilted up his hat to get the warmth and I thought him guilty of a skip and syncopation in the ringing of his bell, as if he too twitched pleasantly with the Spring and his old sap was stirred.

Even in sleep his little limbs, I think, Twitch restlessly, and still his tongue gibes on With inarticulate murmur.

The man's fingers were wide spread as he spoke, and his lip twitched twice, sharply, when he had finished.

They recognized the hatless, squat figure of their father at once, even in the dark, with the wind twitching his beard sideways.

Lanyard sidestepped, nipped a wrist, twitched it smartly up between the man's shoulder-blades (with a wrench that won a grunt of agony), caught the other arm from behind by the hollow of its elbow, and held his victim helplessthough ill-advised enough to continue to hiss and spit and squirm and kick.

I twitched softly at my wrists, and then at my ankles, but whichever of the two had secured me was no bungler at his work.

When she was not twitching my sash straight, she was running about after me with dry shoes and stockings, and a chair, for fear "madame was getting too tired"; and when she was not doing that she was clapping my big garden hat on my head, for fear "madame would get a sunstroke."

" Lammersfield, the corner of whose mouth was twitching suspiciously, broke into the conversation.

The corners of her sensitive mouth twitched uncertainly.

" Berkley's upper lip again twitched unpleasantly; but, when at length he spoke, he spoke more calmly than before and his mobile features were in pallid repose.

The old man's face twitched painfully when she spoke of the young widow's quarrel with her husband's father.