Thus speaking, my lord Duke rode on up the lists, where stood certain noble lords to hold his stirrup and aid him to earth; so mounted he to his place 'neath broidered canopy, and many a fair cheek blanched, and many a stout knight faltered in his speech, beholding that slow-creeping, stealthy smile and the twitch of those thin nostrils.

He felt the gentle touch of the girl's hand again and heard the wonderful sweetness of her voice as she sang to him and his master, and his body trembled and twitched with the thrills that had filled him that night.

Weak tears were running down my cheeks, my breath rasped in my throat, but I was in the frame of mind that if death had found me next moment my legs would still have twitched in an effort to run.

He went immediately to the bedside; but his sister was asleep, and he didn't stay there, but went over where the nurse was, and began to hang about her till suddenly she felt a twitch at her side and, looking quickly, saw the little book she carries there, falling back into place.

His head twitched to one side and he saw John Bard rising to his elbow.

Watching there, he did not voluntarily move a muscle, yet all his body twitched like that of the trained athlete, strained to leap into the great race of his life.

" Stoddard had been stepping as best he could, hobbling along in the hampering leg chains, that were attached to the wrists also, and twitched on his hands with every step.

What'd you like for supper?" He walked slowly along the room, his knees sagging, twitching from end to end.

A cotton thread, 120 yards in length, and strong enough to be twitched about and twisted by a score of vigorous, chattering, iron fingers, is wound around in this groove.

The two mariners then made an investigation of his pockets, the clerk standing by the while paralyzed with horror, his face the color of dough, his scalp creeping, and his hands and fingers twitching as though with the palsy.

this will make it all right for her...." and a last flash of irony twitched through him.

The cat was the audience, who dozed with an ear twitching toward your activity.

Yet do his bulging eyes supplicate the wherefore of smocks, and his goodly large ears do twitch for the why of sacks.

But when Jone got suddenly up on his feet there was such a twitch across his face that I said to him, "Now just you sit down.

You were little better then mad even now, sir, when you gave me such a twitch by the beard.

But not a moan, his face twitching and trying to make the twitch into a smile, and telling us to stick.

His hand twitched against the butt of the Lewis.

The gentleman did not write down any translation of it, but he sat for some time with his nervous, thin fingers twitching amongst the hairs of his white beard, and his shaggy brows bent in the deepest and most absorbed attention whilst he mastered the meaning of it.