Every wind is fretted by his voice, almost every bole and branch feels the sting of his sharp feet.

In something pink, silk, and conservatively V, she was a careful management's last bland ingredient to an evening that might leave too Cayenne a sting to the tongue.

Her eyes stung in their socketsthose desolate blue eyes, dark with unshed tears, heavy with sleep.

Macbeth, stung with rage, set upon the castle of Macduff, and put his wife and children, whom the thane had left behind, to the sword, and extended the slaughter to all who claimed the least relationship to Macduff.

"Which shows," she said slowly, every word stinging like the bite of a whip-lash, "that you are running, true to form and there is one fool, at least, still unslaughtered!

Then, as it were, stung into plain speaking: "Shamán say white man bring sicknessbring devils" "Maybe the old Orang Outang's right.

Like the brave soldier who gathered into his own breast the spears of the enemy, Christ has taken the sting from our sorrows and made us more than conquerors over the wounds of earth.

They were great friends; the sense of humour possessed by her mother-in-law took the sting out of the relationship.

Your lips would punish a fault with words that shame and sting for a day, a summer, a year; your hand must never inflict a sting that may smart for ten minutes.

The managers tried to get the band to play some tune that would soothe and hold the audience till an explanation could be made, but somebody had thrown a hornets' nest under the band seats and the horn players got stung on the lips so they couldn't play, and the band all lit out for a beer garden.

Let us make for it, taking care meanwhile that we do not get our feet cut by the coral, or stung as by nettles by the coral insects.

An epigram, according to the old definition, should be like a bee; it should carry the sweetness of honey, although it bears a sting at the end.

" Stung by Agony's tone, Jane flushed a little.

And therewith flinging his arms into the air as though in the extremity of despair, he turned and incontinently departed, rushing forth out of the house as though stung by ten thousand furies.

she said, "for shame, You are too big a match for so small game, To catch the Hare, or nimble Squirrel try, Remember, William, He is BUT A FLY." Not always is Humanity imprest By serious schooling; a light word or jest Will sometimes leave a moral sting behind When graver lessons vanish out of mind.

"Not the least bit do I care," replied Cordelia Running Bird, stung beyond endurance by Hannah's taunts.

by all a mother's joys caress'd, Haply some wretch has ey'd, and call'd thee bless'd; Who faint, and beat by summer's breathless ray, Hath dragg'd her babes along this weary way; While arrowy fire extorting feverish groans Shot stinging through her stark o'er labour'd bones.

Through the silent gloom Oft they the guards assail; as oft repelled They fly reluctant, with hot-boiling rage 430 Stung to the quick, and mad with wild despair.

For never yet from Gallia's confines came War's fell eruption with so fierce a flame: She sent a Chief, matur'd in martial strife, Who fought for fame, for empire, and for life; Whose Host had sworn, deep-stung with recent shame, To satiate vengeance, and retrieve their fame!

Each one was elaborately addressed and furnished with a rhymed or unrhymed tag that often hid a sting beneath its clownish exterior.

Poverty, bitter though it be, has no sharper sting than this,that it makes men ridiculous.

She was thinking, "You could and would, if I hadn't put in that sting about his failures.

"Two men stung near Chartham.

I have often noticed the difference in length and sting between the service of some players at the beginning of the match and in the third set, and I am sure that one of the reasons why so many matches are ultimately lost after a promising start is the decline in the service, in its sustained vigour and in its length.

There was a sting along the shoulder of Perris as though a red hot knife had slashed him; a bullet had grazed the skin.