But once in her room it was still harder to bear the suspense as she waited for the noise to die away in the house.

It is painful to endure this suspense, beyond a doubt; but the pain must be borne in order to ensure the safety of one who is so very, very precious to us all.

"Well, then, since you're the one wants it, since you're forcing me to itI'll end your suspense, Millie.

Jerry hurried on, anxious to relieve the suspense of his chums.

Fume and fret as I might, it was not possible to mend matters, and I stretched myself out at full length under the bushes, with the idea in mind that it would be better if we were captured at once, for then we would be spared just so much suspense, yet when Sergeant Corney suggested that we were not as well hidden from view as we should be, I was alarmed on the instant.

Then Laura, unable to stand the suspense a moment more, took the bit in her teeth and bolted.

No fresh news arrived and Barbara tried to hide her suspense, until one morning a small African liner steamed into port.

Two hours of torturing suspense had passed since the terrible awakening, which but served to make the feeling of restored security the more delightful, and the remainder of the night was spent in relating the events of the rencontre.

"Great God in Heaven," exclaimed Joe, breaking the suspense and unable to better express his amazement at the singular turn affairs had taken, while with a trembling hand he drew forth from the paper a small leather purse.

Yes, Wilder, I love suspense; it keeps the faculties from dying, and throws a man upon the better principles of his nature.

Oh, how we watched, hour after hour, and how often each day John Baptiste climbed to the topmost bough of a tall pine tree and, with straining eyes, scanned the desolate expanse for one moving speck in the distance, for one ruffled track on the snow which should ease our awful suspense.

"I've thought of that," he drawled, "but I like the suspense.

I could have done nothing but describe suspense, and every newspaper told you that.

As long as he had been in action, as long as he had been hurrying along the coast, the excitement of motion, the constant exercise of his senses, had relieved or distracted the intolerable suspense.

It was nine and after, and the tide of life was roaring through the channels of the city when he roused himself, and to divert his suspense and fend off his growing stiffness went out to look about him.

The interesting question in connection with compromise obviously turns upon the placing of the boundary that divides wise suspense in forming opinions, wise reserve in expressing them, and wise tardiness in trying to realise them, from unavowed disingenuousness and self-illusion, from voluntary dissimulation, and from indolence and pusillanimity.

He believed that as they drew nearer to their journey's end her suspense and uneasiness, the fear which she was trying to keep from him, would, in spite of her, become more and more evident.

I watched him meddling till I could bear to watch no longer, feeling a fierce feverish suspense as to what he might say, and my pulse beating so quick that I could scarce stand still.

So the finger of the duellist trembles on the trigger of his gun before he receives the signal to firea suspense more terrible than the actual face of death.

In the reaction which followed that ten-seconds' suspense, men grumbled because it had ended so soon.

I shall never forget the awful suspense and dread that prevailed in our home as the family sat in a group through the long weary hours of that night, anxiously awaiting the return of the day, yet dreading what the day might bring forth.

O'er the surface grim silence lay dark; but the crowd Heard the wail from the deep murmur hollow and fell; They hearken and shudder, lamenting aloud "Gallant youth-noble heart-fare-thee-well, fare-thee-well!" More hollow and more wails the deep on the ear More dread and more dread grows suspense in its fear.

That the chin hath shown By its dense honour, the brows' beam bipart: 'Tis Moses, when he left the Mount, with part, A great-part, of God's glory round him thrown. Such was the prophet when those sounding vast Waters he held suspense about him; such When he the sea barred, made it gulph his foe.

Painful as the certainty was it was not so painful as that listening, hoping suspense.

Can you imagine the suspense certain parties will feel when they rush into a shop for their early morning 'thought mop' and have to cling to the bar while Arthur looks up their past performances in Bingham's Bartenders' Guide.