His determination to beat down his temper, no matter what came, was gone; his memory of her ordeals was wiped out; from his whole tense being there flashed out upon her a hot, heady anger, like stabbing lightning from an ominous cloud.

It was after the second shot that King's rifle answered him; it roared out like the crash of doom in Gloria's ears; she saw the stabbing spurt of fire.

In Gloucestershire a man was convicted of killing a girl by stabbing her in no less than thirty-eight places.

"Citizens," said the prefect of the watch, "as I was going on my rounds late last night, I saw this ferocious young foreigner, sword in hand, slashing and stabbing three inoffensive creatures.

He sees a Whale, and, like a flash, hurls himself at it, stabbing his sword as deep as it will go into the Whale's side.

AF contain a wood-cut representing Amintor stabbing Aspatia.

Attack him with short, stabbing thrusts, and keep him beyond striking distance of his weapon.

When he spoke, however, it was to admit the fact that was stabbing him.

With this old man, no less malevolent and vindictive than himself, the Venetian associated two ruffians, and dispatched them all three to Turin, fully inspired with a resolution of stabbing Stradella and the old man's daughter wherever they found them.

The men who are stabbing their country in their madness and folly; who are crowding our graves and darkening our homes; who are dragging our young men, men like you, who should be the pride and hope of our country, into the jaws of ruin and death.

Is there ever stabbing where there is not idleness and strong drink?" The Bishop also gives the following as another exciting cause; it is however only the product of the preceding.

Is there ever stabbing where there is not idleness and strong drink?" The Bishop also gives the following as another exciting cause; it is however only the product of the preceding.

They were habituated to consider wounds and bludgeons and stabbing as the obvious mode of surmounting every difficulty.

The Hotwaters swarmed into the broken ditch, shooting and stabbing the few who fought back, disarming the prisoners who had surrendered with hands over their heads and quavering cries of "Kamerad."

One of our men was wiping a long knife by stabbing it into the dirt.

Up then started the wounded man, and showed that the stabbing was only a ruse, and the blood that of a sheep from the slaughter-house.

When all the material has been brought to the spot where the lodge is to be erected, that warrior who, during the previous year, has done the most cutting and stabbing in battle is selected to cut the rawhide to bind it, and while he cuts the strings he counts three coups.

This lessened the danger of any shooting or stabbing while the Indian was drinking, and an effort was usually made to get him out of the store as soon as he had finished.

Drawing the Roman ruins, shooting pigeons, scouring the Campagna on a pony like a shaggy bear, fighting duels, prosecuting love-affairs, defending his shop against robbers, skirmishing with Moorish pirates on the shore by Cerveterra, stabbing, falling ill of the plague and the French sicknessthese adventures diversify the account he gives of masterpieces in gold and silver ware.

"Thus we see, that killing a man with a sword or a hatchet, are looked upon as no distinct species of action: but if the point of the sword first enter the body, it passes for a distinct species, called stabbing.

" He deliberately defied me by stabbing into the ink-bottle with increased vigour.

" It only seemed possible that it was the enemy when from that army of ants on the hillsides there came forth little puffs of white smoke, and little stabbing flames, and when, quite soon, some of those English boys lay in a huddled way over their rifles, with their sunburned faces on the warm earth.

The jagged form of Yasoda, cut in two by the lintel of the doorway, the stabbing lines of the churning pole, grazing sticks and cords, as well as the sharp angles of the house and its furniture, all contribute to a state of taut excitement.

She however, seeing her schemes doomed to failure, nurses revenge, and succeeds in stabbing Leucippus, then turning the dagger into her own heart.[305] More ink than was necessary has been spilt over the motive of this wildly melodramatic play.

As for what is modern, I saw nothing but lewdness, private murders, stabbing men at the corner of a street, or in the dark, hiring of bravos, and the like.