I felt as though they would say it was just a vain, foolish girl thinking she'd stirred up trouble and had the men quarrelling over her.

There was a distant look of unutterable terror in those dark eyes as though she existed in some constant and ever-present dread.

It is as though we suspected him of being underhanded.

He looked at West as though he read to the bottom of that shallow mind and meant to make the most of his knowledge.

"That's quite a cut," he said, "as clean as though it had been made with a knife.

He gripped both hand and wrist with nervous fingers, holding them almost as though he would force from him the information he desired.

His eyes looked back into hers with a certain steeliness, as though they sought to penetrate her reserve.

For not one of them had ever heard such singing as that music which Sir Tristram sang; for it was as though some angel were singing to those who sat there harkening to his chanting.

Besides Joe must think of saving himself, for it looked as though the tug would be crushed and sunk.

They remained unmoving, as though they were waiting for a delivery.

Now we understand each other, do we not?" Don Teodoro could not help smiling in a hopeless sort of way, and he lifted his hands a moment, spreading out the palms as though to express that he cleared his conscience of all possible responsibility.

I had not energy enough to greet her; so she also sat down uninvited, and took off her glovesnot lazily, like the colonel, but with an air as though she would, if a man, take off her coat, to meet the crisis more energetically.

"Which way do we travel?" asked Shorty Kilrain, reining close beside the leader, as though he were anxious to disestablish any relationship with the rest of the party.

While beautiful nature looks as though it were art (as though it were calculated for our enjoyment), beautiful art should resemble nature, must not appear to be intentional though, no doubt, it is so, must show a careful but not an overnice adherence to rules (i.e., not one which fetters the powers of the artist).

MacDonald still held his eye to the telescope, as though he had not heard Joanne.

Harry, you want some; you don't look as though the heat was good for your temper.

And mixed with the men, they were constantly finding bodies of women so disfigured that it was almost impossible to judge of their age: mothers who had their arms arched as though putting forth their utmost efforts to guard the babe that had disappeared.

In fact, one less occupied with other thoughts might have construed her bold, open look, her slightly parted lips and flushed cheeks, as a welcomequite as though she were in the habit of having handsome young men throw themselves into her arms.

Was it foolish of her to touch the pretty bridal robes with soft, caressing fingers, as though they were some living thing that she lovedto place them where the sunbeams fell on them, to admire them in every different fold and arrangement?

Don Antolin remained silent for some time, still looking intently at Luna, as though some extraordinary idea had just occurred to him.

Hence the endless controversy about Justification by [Greek: pistis], which has so vexed Christians; hence the slander cast on unbelievers or misbelievers (when they can no longer be burned or exiled), as though they were faithless and infidels.

" "Captain," said I, "when I saw that spot I felt as though I had been there in some former life.

He had been told that he was the heir, not to the uncle, but to Buston, and had gradually been taught to look upon Buston as his right,as though he had a certain defeasible property in the acres.

Take two testors eeuenly set together, and put the same in stead of one testor into a strangers hand: and then making as though you put one testor into your left hand, with words you shall make it seeme that you conuey the testor in your hand into the strangers hand: for when you open your said left hand, there shall be nothing seene: and he opening his hand, shall finde two where he thought was but one.

Such terror and horror were in her eyes as though she were facing a death's head inches away.