As he boarded, Barnett and Trendon, with both of whom the lad was a favourite, came to a sinister conclusion.

His face was long, narrow, hook-nosed and sinister; his eyes, as I have described them, a steady and beady black.

And truly, thus extinguished by the unfounded jealousy of a madman, the force of Charteris's genius seemed, and seems to-day, as emphasized by that sinister caprice of chance which annihilated it.

She was not without a healthy young woman's relish for this sort of admiration; but Shade Buckheath's proposal came with so little grace, in such almost sinister form, that she scarcely recognized it.

At that moment, while we were making the air ring with our shouts of triumph, I saw a figure emerge from that sinister pile of dead and maimed and come limpingly in the direction of the fort, moving evidently with great effort and slowly.

"Let us get out of here," I said, after releasing myself from the sinister weight.

Soon the cup was called for, and Helladia, in her masculine dress, stepped forward, darting a glance of sinister triumph at her friend.

Nothing but sinister memories and vague alarms presented themselves to his imagination.

It is useless to stay to examine the foundations for these sinister accusations.

A day of sinister portent this must have been, for scarcely had Coquenil left Notre-Dame when another scene was enacted there that should have been happy, but that, alas!

It was only a small sound, hushed and hardly sharp enough to arouse Ben from his sleep; but it was deadly, savage, unutterably sinister.

Already the darkness was pressing close upon them, tremulous, vaguely sinister, inscrutably mysterious.

By heavens, it is a ship!" "Sail, ho!" shouted a voice, from out atop, which sounded in the ears of our adventurer like the croaking of some sinister spirit, sweeping across the deep.

Mrs Wyllys and her charge had, by this time, retired to their cabin; the former secretly felicitating herself on the prospect of soon quitting a vessel that had commenced its voyage under such sinister circumstances as to have deranged the equilibrium of even her well-governed and highly-disciplined mind.

Our watchful adventurer was not blind to these well-known and sinister omens.

Through the insistent drizzle this person, smiling now very pleasantly, led us to a depressed wooden building that suggested a derelict Noah's Ark with a sinister look about the windows.

And curiously close to this extreme optimistic school in its moral quality and logical consequences, though contrasting widely in the sinister gloom of its spirit, is the socialism of Karl Marx.

Still his hungry ears fed on nothing but sinister echoes, the barren husks of his own clamour.

This is the left-hand (sinister) page; the right-hand (dexter) page is immediately below.

The sinister truth about America as revealed in the initial number of the brave new venture was that America was crude, blatant, boastful, vulgar, and money-grubbing.

Not until the second number was it revealed that the arch criminals were to be found in the exploiting class, a sinister combination, all-powerful, working to the detriment of the common people; an industrial oligarchy under whose rule the cowed wage slave toiled for his crust of bread.

But the sailor prolonged his atrociously sinister smile.

He himself was impressed by the ironic union in the Worshipful Master of conviviality and a sinister occupation.

Deep in the background stood the sinister apparition of the Atchison cabal.

The sinister sign post.