" "But think of her terrorher suffering!" cried Uncle John, wringing his chubby hands.

I'm pretty sure the game is in our hands, from the very start.

The game was in his hands, he believed, and he intended to keep it there.

she cried, wringing her hands pitifully.

The next moment she ran and placed her hands on Madame Cerise's shoulders, peering into the round, beady eyes with tender pleading as she continued: "I don't know why I have been stolen away from my home and friends; I don't know why this dreadful thing has happened to me; I only know that I am worn out and need rest.

" "And Louise can't be safe while she's a prisoner, and in the hands of strangers.

Yet fear of exposure, of ridicule, of loss of caste, held her a helpless prisoner in her own home, where she paced the floor and moaned and wrung her hands until she was on the verge of nervous prostration.

"I've got a queer job on my hands, Cerise, and I rely on you to help me," said he presently, assuming a more conciliating manner.

" He was pacing the floor by this time, his hands thrust deep in his pockets, an anxious look upon his face that belied his bombastic words.

The voice was shrill and despairing, and looking up they saw Diana standing dramatically posed upon the landing, her hands clasped over her heart and a look of fear upon her face.

One of her hands was groping for his arm.

Bull obeyed, his back against the rock, and was careful not to lower his hands.

"But in the country," writes Jerome, "it is true our bread will be coarse, our drink water, and our vegetables we must raise with our own hands; but sleep will not snatch us from agreeable discourse, nor satiety from the pleasures of study.

While he stood before them clad in the robes of priestly office, holding in his hands the consecrated elements which told of their redemption, and offering up to God before the altar prayers in their behalf, he also ascended the pulpit to speak of life and death in all their sublime relations.

Who can wonder at the degeneracy of the clergy when they held their cures at the hands of lay patrons, to whom they swore allegiance for the temporalities of their benefices?

Before this, popes and princes were generally leagued together; they played into each other's hands: but now a battle was to be fought between the temporal and spiritual powers.

Therefore he convened another council, and prohibited, under the terrible penalty of excommunication,for that was his mighty weapon,the investiture of bishoprics and abbacies at the hands of laymen: only he himself should give to ecclesiastics the ring and the crozier,the badges of spiritual authority.

Every convent had a small library, mostly composed of Lives of the saints, and of devout meditations and homilies; and the Bible was the greatest treasure of all,the Vulgate of Saint Jerome, which was copied and illuminated by busy hands.

and the cardinal threw up his hands.

The cardinal rubbed his white hands together, uncrossed and recrossed his legs, struck the arm of his chair, and burst into a laugh so merry and so prolonged that the earl, perforce, joined him.

She held the turquoise cup in her hands.

" "Mine?" exclaimed Lady Nora, and she put her hands up to her hat-pins, to reassure herself.

" "It must be in my hands in ten days," said the cardinal.

He had failed in his original attempt to surprise the castle of Dublin; and had twice fallen into the hands of the Scots in Ulster, and twice made his escape; still his loyalty or presumption was unsubdued, and he had come to Oxford to make a third tender of his services.

We shake hands sadly.