Innumerable insects begin to dance, the deer withdraw from the open glades and ridge-tops to their leafy hiding-places in the chaparral, the flowers open and straighten their petals as the dew vanishes, every pulse beats high, every life-cell rejoices, the very rocks seem to tingle with life, and God is felt brooding over everything great and small.

Things go racing and tingling in my head, but I can never get them down.

Have we not all met some one, in our lifetime, whose acquaintance with us seemed to have no preliminaries?some one who never bothered to say anything at all to us, until one day he said something that leaped and tingled through our very being?

" I laughed, my nerves tingling to the success of my rusehe had taken the tempting bait like a hungry fish.

A tingle of spray was in the air.

" "And thy feet warmed with the thought of the bastinado, caro mio?" "I have run too often barefoot over our Calabrian mountains, to tingle at the sole with every fancy of that sort.

He tingled from the rapier touches of that last laughter.

They also pretended to draw a good or bad omen from the most trifling actions or occurrences of life, as sneezing, stumbling, starting, numbness of the little finger, the tingling of the ear, the spilling of salt upon the table, or the wine upon one's clothes, the accidental meeting of a bitch with whelp, etc.

"Ha, Roger, I was deep in my thoughts, what would ye?" "Master, hast ever a pricking in the hairs of thy head?" "Not I." "Dost ever feel a tingling in the soles of thy feet?" "Not so, in truth.

There was a swift exchange of blows, in the course of which Mike's left elbow, coming into contact with his opponent's right fist, got a shock which kept it tingling for the rest of the day; and then Adair went down in a heap.

His musical, piny gossip is as savory to the ear as balsam to the palate; and, though he has not exactly the gift of song, some of his notes are as sweet as those of a linnetalmost flute-like in softness, while others prick and tingle like thistles.

God, how often when I was riding through solitary wastes I have recalled those hours, every look of your dear eyes, every curve of those sweet lipshold them up to me, dearest!every tone of your voice, the low, musical voice the memory of which had power to set every nerve tingling with longing and despair.

The stirring, shaken sistra wrought a miracle of sound that set the nerves all tingling as the high priest, followed by his boys with swinging censers and the members of the priestly college, four by four, came chanting down the temple steps.

If you remain perfectly motionless, he will come nearer and nearer, and probably set your flesh a-tingle by frisking across your body.

May I come in?" She gave a little ecstatic cry, but while it was still tingling on her lips, she was winding her hair into shape with lightning speed; had dipped the tips of her fingers in cold water and rubbed her eyes awake and brilliant, and with one circular rub had brought the color into her cheeks.

Their fingers tingled under the first contact.

There was a slight, hateful odor in my nostrils that was not altogether unfamiliar, and then, suddenly, I was aware that my face was damp and that there was a curious sense of tingling at my throat.

During this phase, the ears ring loudly, the eyeballs rotate and there is a tingling about the brow.

To the sensation of perfect ease induced by the well-chosen dinner this added a little tingling through all Sylvia's nerves, a pleasant, light, bright titillation.

The blood warms and the nerves tingle after the tensions and heats of a quarter of a century as those days of sublime vagabondage come back.