And whether that heavenly suspense of all her faculties was sleep or not she knew not, but it was such as in all her life she had never known.

Go on!" The impetuosity, the suspense in the words astounded me.

No one strayed beyond the limits of the encampment; but all waited in painful suspense for that hour to come when it should be known whether Joseph Brant was of the mind that we might return to our homes for the time being, or if he sought immediately to compass our death through treachery.

When this had been done to his satisfaction, and it seemed to give him greatest pleasure to keep me in suspense as to his purpose, he tied to the smaller end of the stick the fringe from his shirt.

One petition, indeed, puzzled him a little; two men asking favours of him directly contrary to each other, at the same time, and promising the same sacrifice; he was at a loss which to oblige; he became immediately a perfect Academic, and like Pyrrho, {185b} was held in suspense between them.

For about half an hour, there was intense anxiety, and an agony of suspense on board.

He waited, his eyes seeking hers, seeking them for some sign which might still the passion of fear and suspense with which he was battling, then he said in a low voice that thrilled with the tempest of emotion which raged under his forced calm: "Will you not speak to me?

Another vast parade, it is true, some two days after the marriage, to welcome from Texas that aged general (friend of the Callenders) who after long suspense to both sides had at last joined the South, and was to take command at New Orleans.

" Had De Quincey liberated our minds from suspense by first presenting the thought which first arose in his own mind,namely, that we are thrown back upon scenes and remembrances by phantoms of lost power, &c.the beauty of his language in its pregnant suggestiveness would have been felt at once.

The conflict having thus terminated, Rustem at the same time returned with his army to where Zál remained in anxious suspense about the result.

She watched him with the sickening certainty that if he got away she could never survive the years of suspense until his inevitable return.

"This is for mother for her mending" Mäzli called out looking with suspense at her uncle's fingers.

The astonished secretary raised the jewel, and held it in suspense before the eyes of the judges.

But, in her cold and quiet features, I could detect nothing beyond the melancholy of grief; and the suspense from which all suffered, kept me also on the rack, until at a question from Mr. Moffat she spoke again, and we heard her say: "Yes, she died that way, with her hands in mine.

Neither can I endure this suspense without asking some one's opinion.

The anguish of the suspense during the next three or four hours was something dreadful.

No game of polo could match suspense like this.

We had by this time reached the street, and the attorney pointed towards two figures standing in attitudes of anxious suspense near the gateway.

I have a friend also hanging in agonizing suspense over a little one who has been injured by a fall; she is sweetly submissive, but you know what a mother's heart is.

It is harder to submit to this suspense than to a real, decided blow.