The aim of the distinguished writer of the "Grip of Desire" is far removed from that of vulgar and gratuitous image-breaking.

If in the "Chastisement of Mansour" he bodies forth the consequences of unbridled Libertinism, in the "Grip of Desire" he demonstrates the evils attendant on a life of forced Celibacy.

[Illustration] ***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GRIP OF DESIRE*** *******

" He was holding her slim hand with its small, crushable bones in an excited grip.

To think that a man's hard grip could work such wonders!

We all remember Sinbad's Old Man of the Sea, and the grip of that merciless rider tightening closer and closer the longer he was carried by his disgusted victim.

Alone, and in the grip of this singular and powerful man, Ione was not yet terrified; the respect of his language, the softness of his voice, reassured her; and in her own purity she felt protection.

Whereupon the baby, as though conscious of his narrow escape, smiled and gurgled, and reaching upward clutched the doctor's whiskers with his little hand, which, according to old Jane, had a stronger grip than any other infant's in Wellington.

And if the failure of the Germans to grip the Press of the French and English speaking countries has been conspicuous, she has been by no means so unsuccessful infor exampleSpain.

I think Great Britain and her Allies have all of them to prepare their minds for a certain release of their grip upon their "possessions," if they wish to build up a larger unity; I do not see that any secure unanimity of purpose is possible without such releases and readjustments.

Again and again he struck, and Quade's grip loosened.

Aldous dropped behind her as they began the gradual descent from the crest of the break and his own heart began to beat more apprehensively; the old question flashed back upon him, and he felt again the oppression that once before had held him in its grip.

His mind still running in the groove of his set purpose, before his captor's relaxed fingers had well loosed their grip, Macalister hurled himself across the trench and fastened his ferocious grip on the body of the officer.

His mind still running in the groove of his set purpose, before his captor's relaxed fingers had well loosed their grip, Macalister hurled himself across the trench and fastened his ferocious grip on the body of the officer.

He had my arm in a grip like a vise and wrenched at it until I cursed him.

I think I have lost my grip on the worldand not found my hold on another.

The grip of ice clutched his heart.

She loosened her grip, and the book opened to a particularly soiled page on which a line had been underscored with a thick red mark.

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

But Ken, aware of his danger, managed to get hold of the fellow's wrist with his own left hand, and held it in a grip which the other, struggle as he might, could not break.

Before he could tighten his grip came a tremendous shock, and he was flung off the other as if by a giant's hand.

His fierce grip upon the German's wrist paralysed the muscles of the man's hand, and the pistol dropped from his nerveless fingers.

'Get as good a grip as you can and let go when I tell you.'

That old man down south is losing his grip.

The hand was gone from Jeannette's wrist,the hand which gave her such rapture and such pain by its firm fraternal grip.

These drugs, which have sprung into popular use since the disease la grippe began its dreaded career, include phenacetine, antipyrine, antifebrine, and other similar preparations.

He gazed at her; he spokeand she Stuck out at him a small tongue's tip: The family doctor old was he, And shehe said she had la grippe.

[Fr.]; enanthem^, enanthema^; erysipelas; exanthem^, exanthema; gallstone, goiter, gonorrhea, green sickness; grip, grippe, influenza, flu; hay fever, heartburn, heaves, rupture, hernia, hemorrhoids, piles, herpes, itch, king's evil, lockjaw; measles, mumps^, polio; necrosis, pertussis, phthisis^, pneumonia, psora^, pyaemia^, pyrosis

One can hardly help wishingso little of Plutarch's spirit survives in their dull pagesthat a similar fate had overtaken these excellent men to that which carried off the gentle Abbé Ricard with the grippe, when he had published but half of his translation of the Philosopher of Cheronaea.

Two conventions, three banquets, the lobby so full of khaki that it looked like a sand-storm, a threatened strike in the laundry, a travelling man in two-twelve who had the grippe and thought he was dying, a shortage of towels (that bugaboo of the hotel housekeeper) due to the laundry trouble that had kept the linen-room telephone jangling to the tune of a hundred damp and irate guests.

The people die by thousands from a devil sickness, the grippe, or influenza.

At that time I had a severe attack of grippe which incapacitated me for two weeks.