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Amanda seized him by the arm.
The white phantom moved away; he seized it by the arms; it was a woman.
Mathilde felt herself seized by an irresistible desire to yawn; she recognised the antique decorations and the old frequenters of the paternal drawing-room.
She seized her brother by the arm, and, greatly to his disgust, forced him to take her for a tour of the rooms.
He had seen himself seized by servants, garrotted, carried down to a cellar with a gag in his mouth.
'If M. de Croisenois is taking all this calmly, he must feel that it will be less compromising for the young person whom he intends to marry to have me seized before the moment when I shall have entered her room.'
He thought he was being seized by an enemy, and turned sharply round drawing a dagger.
At that moment, had any honourable way of renewing their relations presented itself, she would have seized it with pleasure.
She found an intense pleasure in strolling by his side, it was with curiosity that she gazed at his hands which that morning had seized the sword to kill her.
Harrowing doubt, bewilderment, despair, seized upon him by turns during this luncheon, which seemed to him to be everlasting.
'It is a cassock,' he said to himself, and quietly seized the pocket pistols which he had placed under his pillow.
He was seized with a passionate desire to rid the world of one of its vilest scoundrels ...'But my mission!' he reminded himself.
It was with gladness that the softer side of his heart seized the pretext of Mathilde's condition to forgo the duty of saying a few cruel words.
Mechanically Julien's hand went to his pocket pistols; but a second gendarme seized him by the arms.
Very well!' she added, inflamed by a heroism that was not devoid of happiness, 'my lips, which are now pressed against these dear locks, will be frozen within twenty-four hours after.'Memories of these moments of heroism and fearful ecstasy seized her in an ineluctable grip.
For nearly eighteen months we have all known him to be pious, wise, studious; but, two or three times in the year, he was seized by fits of melancholy which bordered on insanity.
Gout, in its most malignant stage, it would appear, had seized me without my being aware of it; and zymosis I had evidently been suffering with from boyhood.
It is a bustling, lively little town; not very picturesque on the whole, it is true, but there are many quaint nooks and corners to be found in it, nevertheless - standing arches in the shattered bridge of Time, over which our fancy travels back to the days when Marlow Manor owned Saxon Algar for its lord, ere conquering William seized it to give to Queen Matilda, ere it passed to the Earls of Warwick or to worldly-wise Lord Paget, the councillor of four successive sovereigns.
And he rushed at that poor little kettle, and seized it by the spout.
He was swimming about there near the beach, when he felt himself suddenly seized by the neck from behind, and forcibly plunged under water.
Quick as thought, we each seized an oar, and a vigorous blow against the side of the lock with the butt-ends released the boat, and sent us sprawling on our backs.
Until then he had been relatively self controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his foot at him as he went.
The war did not interfere with the traffic of the peddler, who seized on the golden opportunity which the interruption of the regular trade afforded, and appeared absorbed in the one grand object of amassing money.
Dunwoodie seized the hand which the blushing girl, in her ardor, had extended towards him, and pressed it for a moment to his bosom; then rising from his seat, he paced the room in excessive agitation.
Three hundred of his comrades were within a mile of the cottage; unridden horses were running at large in every direction, and Henry Wharton seized the unconscious sentinel by his legs, and threw him headlong into the lawn.
The movement created a slight confusion; and Dunwoodie seized the opportunity to charge.
A feeling of despair seized his heart, and in the bitterness of that moment he exclaimed,-"Hunted like a beast of the forest!"
Fear, exhaustion, and despair seized his heart, and the intended victim fell at the feet of the dragoon.
But a new idea had seized the imagination of the spinster.
"What in the name of fury seized your coward hearts?" cried their dissatisfied leader, drawing his breath heavily.
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