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He seized him by the shoulder, and pushed him towards the settlement.
It only concerned the gentleman if he liked the leavings; and beneath the exhibition of this contempt he was again seized by a tremor of jealousy, and his eyes flamed.
A third, who had seized the cage, fell back fifty metres up and disappeared in the sump.
Négrel was seized by nervous impatience; he wanted to see, and he was already advancing alone into this awful void when he was seized by the shoulders.
Gradually this hunt excited him; he was, in his turn, seized by a fever of devotion, in spite of his ironical indifference to men and things.
When Négrel and the men came back they were seized by a terrible rage.
The fallen shaft, the inundated mine, nothing had seized her with such terror as this clamour of Bataille in agony.
But she understood what he was asking; in the morning he had breathed over her neck; he was seized again by one of his old furies of desire on seeing her near the other man.
The need to kill seized him irresistibly, a physical need, like the irritation of mucus which causes a violent spasm of coughing.
He had seized a sheet of slate in the wall and he shook it and tore it out, a very large, heavy piece.
Seized by horrible nausea, Catherine had spat out the water which was still in her mouth.
He shuddered to feel her thus against his flesh, half naked beneath the tattered jacket and trousers, and he seized her with a reawakening of his virility.
Suddenly my clothes were seized by energetic hands, I felt myself pulled abruptly back to the surface of the sea, and yes, I heard these words pronounced in my ear:"If master would oblige me by leaning on my shoulder, master will swim with much greater ease."
With one hand I seized the arm of my loyal Conseil.
Forcibly seized, Ned Land and Conseil were behind me.
But as soon as his hands seized the railing, he was thrown backward in his turn.
A morbid sleep, full of hallucinations, seized my whole being.
I seized his arm.
But Conseil, being very possessive of his fish, rushed at it, and before I could stop him, he seized it with both hands.
Ned Land seized a harpoon.
Seized by the tentacle and glued to its suckers, the unfortunate man was swinging in the air at the mercy of this enormous appendage.
A week after, as she was hanging up some washing in her yard, she was seized with a spitting of blood, and the next day, while Charles had his back turned to her drawing the window-curtain, she said, "O God!" gave a sigh and fainted.
A torpor seized her; she stopped.
One day Emma was suddenly seized with the desire to see her little girl, who had been put to nurse with the carpenter's wife, and, without looking at the calendar to see whether the six weeks of the Virgin were yet passed, she set out for the Rollets' house, situated at the extreme end of the village, between the highroad and the fields.
She was so sad and so calm, at once so gentle and so reserved, that near her one felt oneself seized by an icy charm, as we shudder in churches at the perfume of the flowers mingling with the cold of the marble.
She was seized with the temptation to flee somewhere with Leon to try a new life; but at once a vague chasm full of darkness opened within her soul.
Why had she not seized this happiness when it came to her?
He passed his hand over his face, like a man seized with giddiness.
And he seized her hand; she did not withdraw it.
He seized her by the wrist.
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