For he could also see many men waiting for him with clubs, and he could hear the cracking of whips, and feel the sting of their lashes.

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.

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

As dinner went on the adjustment between the four became more nearly perfect; the gaiety, directed by Adelaide, lost all sting.

Yet it adds a sting or two to my former stings, when I think of my projects with regard to this charming creature.

Victor swore fretfully and lashed out a random fist, which struck Lanyard's cheek a glancing blow that carried just enough sting to kindle resentment.

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.

There lies the sting, Mademoisellethe torture to be a captive: to feel one's best days slipping away, and fate still denying to us poor devils the chance which even the luckiestGod knowsfind little enough."

Next Anger rushed: his eyes, on fire, In lightnings owned his secret stings; In one rude clash he struck the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings.

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.

We subsist In slavery; all is slavery; we receive Laws, but we ask not whence those laws have come; We need an inward sting to goad us on.

Wide o'er the mad'ning throng URTICA flings Her barbed shafts, and darts her poison'd stings.

Pray God that you will stand it with a better grace than Ithat you will forget the sting and rancor of it, and not carry it with you through the years.

He sat down upon a billet of wood, and, to escape the stings of a whining cloud of mosquitoes, shrouded his face and neck in his handkerchief, leaving his eyes uncovered.

In this it plants all its stings; here it sinks its hot irons; cuts its deep gashes; flings its burning embers, and dashes its boiling brine and liquid fire: into this it strikes its cold flesh hooks, grappling irons, and instruments of nameless torture; and by it drags him shrieking to the end of his pilgrimage.

She had her revolver, a species of firearms which she managed to keep hidden just as certain insects hide their sting, without knowing certainly when it might be necessary to draw it forth.

Already both knew the sting of it well.

Their crown is made of thorns; their pleasure hath such a sting as will stick in the heart through all eternity, except unfeigned repentance do prevent it.

I may receive the only real sting your lips have given, because I could not bear that pain without crying.

Grief aids disease, remembered folly stings, And his last sighs reproach the faith of kings.

"Love in Adalgise's breast has fixed his sting.

feast if you can, and indulge your genius, while you daily apply to these unfortunate people the stings of severity and hunger!

"That she should for once get the worst of it, and be disbelieved to sharpen the sting!" "How do you know?" asked Enva.

who in this latter age Led by your airy hand the Swedish sage, Bad his keen eye your secret haunts explore On dewy dell, high wood, and winding shore; 35 Say on each leaf how tiny Graces dwell; How laugh the Pleasures in a blossom's bell; How insect Loves arise on cobweb wings, Aim their light shafts, and point their little stings.

He had seen them conceal traps cleverly, and roll little capsules of strychnine in the fat of the entrails, and once he had put a foreleg in a trap, and had experienced its sting and pain and deadly grip.