Instantly he sent the canoe into midstream, swung it quickly down with the current, and began to paddle enough to keep the babiche taut about his victim's neck.

Chapter XXX Scream after scream burst from Gloria's lips; taut nerves seemed to snap all through her body like over-stressed violin strings.

Taut nerves of those who saw fancied it a great boulder falling.

She threw back her head and clung with all her strength to the rough lariat, stretched taut as a cable of steel.

This person must have leaped upward at the critical moment, and caught one of the taut strands upon which he had somehow managed to hoist himself and to which he now clung desperately.

His head hummed; the refrain of the taut lines rang louder.

His nerves grew taut.

" She ran badly, her ankles in their low, loose shoes continually turning, her arms held taut at her sides.

Sofia sat up sharply, her young body as taut as her temper.

But he is without the alert and springy step of the old Oscar, whose muscles remained taut and elastic almost to his dying day.

Whether we tad two anchors out or one; whether our cables were hove taut or not; whether we had thirty fathoms out or only fifteen, are points still in dispute; but at any rate we had no steam; so, after we once were on the rock, we had for some time no means of getting off it.

Frank knew all the time that he was pitted against a hard man, and so his muscles were strained and his nerves were taut.

In the distance, the New York pilot-boat, a build rendered famous by the achievements of the "America," at Cowes, lay on the water like a duck, with her canvas white as snow, and taut as a deal board.

Locked in each other's arms, their limbs entwined, with set faces, tugging muscles, straining sinews, and taut nerves they struggled.

Spot's ungainly feet pawed the snow impatiently, as he strained in his collar stretching the tow-line so taut that George feared it might snap.

Tonic for taut nerves.

Farmer George himself sees to it that the cloth does not touch the rick at the edges, or the rain, if it comes, will go through instead of shooting off, and that the ropes are taut and firmly belayed.

In place of tightly geometrical compositions, Malwa artists preferred a more fluid grouping, their straining luxuriant trees blending with swaying creepers to create a soft meandering rhythm and only the human figures, with their sharply cut veils and taut intense faces, expressing the prevailing cult of frenzied passion.

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.

They kept time with foot and voice; the men in deep tones, with short accents, the women in a shrill falsetto; while the clay drums, with heads of taut deer-hide, were beaten, the whistles blown, and the gourds and calabashes rattled, until the air resounded with the deafening noise.

Inside that box there is nothing but a series of plugs from which wires, much finer than a thread, are stretched taut.

This he strongly denied, and was very positive in his denial till he felt the surprise of a rope around his neck, with the end over a limb, and beginning to haul pretty taut in a direction that would soon elevate his body from the ground, when he weakened at their earnestness and asked them to hold on a minute.

And the only sound was the wind, as it sang through the taut wires in the unspeakable sadness of minor chords.

Buckingham soon saw that the strings were closing about him, and that 'twas Sir Julian who held the taut ends.

The skin of her neck, taut and satiny, quivered. Half-blown and waiting, a little voluptuous because voluptuousness already emanated from her, she was like a rose inhaling sunlight.

Hold, mighty Emperor; as I hope to be saved, 'tis but a copy of her Countenanceinhuman Wifelead her to your Apartment, Sir! barbarous honest Woman,to your Chamber, Sir,wou'd I had married thee an errant Strumpet; nay, to your Royal Bed, Sir, I'll warrant you she gives you taunt for taunt: try her, Sir, try her.

Hold, mighty Emperor; as I hope to be saved, 'tis but a copy of her Countenanceinhuman Wifelead her to your Apartment, Sir! barbarous honest Woman,to your Chamber, Sir,wou'd I had married thee an errant Strumpet; nay, to your Royal Bed, Sir, I'll warrant you she gives you taunt for taunt: try her, Sir, try her.

Ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, flout, twit, tease.

Scoff, jeer, gibe, fleer, sneer, mock, taunt.

" "Elizabeth must go to Elmhurst," said Mrs. De Graf, ignoring her husband's taunt.

The taunt was an unintentional eulogy; and a grave washed by the spray of the Sussex waves would have been the noblest burial-place for the martyr of Saxon freedom.

There was no denying the justice of the taunt.

With a scornful taunt that "he did not care an egg for them and their excommunications," he finally mounted his horse to ride off from the conference.

When the strange procession reached the river, Henry stood for a moment looking steadily at the stone, then with a courage which we can scarcely measure, he firmly set his foot on it and slowly crossed over; and from the other side, in the face of all the people he turned and flung his taunt at the prophet, "Who will ever again believe the lies of Merlin?"

"No wonder," was the parting taunt of Heraclius; "from the devil they came, and to the devil they will go.

His eyes burned with a metallic gleam as they met the half taunt in Croisset's cool smile.

After that" "And after that, M'seur" urged Jean, with a touch of the old taunt in his voice, and stopping with his back to the engineer and his hands behind him.

How dare you taunt me with being a pensioner on your brother's bounty?

The Little Red Doctor chose to ignore my taunt.

" The taunt went home.

"Do you think it is quite kind of you to taunt me with never having tasted the sweets of independence?"

M. de Frontenac was one of the officers of Henry IV who, before his accession to the throne of France (in 1576), had a quarrel with M. de Rosny, during which he told him that if he were to pull his nose, he could only draw out milk; a taunt to which the future minister replied by an assurance that he felt strong enough to draw blood out of that of his adversary with his sword.

I thought the South had gentlemen" "You taunt me, my dear lady, my dear girl.

But Dave played music above the taunt.

The fact was, that he had been virtuous enough to write a pious work entitled, "The Christian Hero," which he afterwards published, but as he had not grown sufficiently master of himself to live up to its golden precepts (nay, rather did he continue to spend his evenings in the taverns), the author came in for many a taunt and sneer.

All-unconscious of the taunt, Alice simply replied, "No, I have told you that I have no one to depend upon.

But none of these things would restore her maiden pride; would remove from her the stain of his false love, or rebut the insolent taunt of the eyes to which she had bowed herself captive.

The beautiful Helen who caused the Trojan war by her adulterous elopement was a Spartan, and the Athenian Euripides makes Peleus taunt her husband Menelaus in these words:

He had not intended to use his late pass, but Willie's taunt had altered everything.

For all that, the taunt brought him down a step, and Bartley, still standing like a rock, attacked him again.