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He remained a long time sitting in this way, not knowing what it actually was that made him so anxious, only occasionally did he glance, slightly startled, over his shoulder at the door to the outer room where, mistakenly, he thought he'd heard some noise.
"I'll come back here again soon," said K., who had suddenly decided to put his frock coat on, threw his overcoat over his shoulder and hurried over to the door behind which the girls now began to scream.
K. however went very close behind Leni's back, leant over her shoulder and asked, "Who is this man?"
But then he seemed to regret saying this, and he laid a hand on K.'s shoulder and said, "Please don't betray me to him, will you."
"Hi! come further in," I said, shaking him by the shoulder.
On hearing all this, his sister would break out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she had kept free without any necklace or collar.
The office of consoling those we love is one of the dearest prerogatives of affection; and Major Dunwoodie, although but little encouraged by his own momentary suggestion of relief, could not undeceive the lovely girl, who leaned on his shoulder, as he wiped the traces of her feeling from her face, with a trembling, but reviving confidence in the safety of her brother, and the protection of her lover.
What! is it then this scratch in your shoulder?
Harvey stole a glance over his shoulder, and saw, within a bound of him, the man he most dreaded.
"Berry well, now look him t'rough," said the black, peeping over the housekeeper's shoulder, as he held a long lank candle of yellow tallow, in such a manner as to throw its feeble light on the volume.
"Here seem to be most of the colors of the rainbow, on this shoulder."
The captain of dragoons made no reply; and, while placing some bandages on the wounded shoulder, the surgeon continued,- "If I have any wish at all to destroy human life, it is to have the pleasure of seeing that traitor hanged."
Isabella yielded to the gentle influence of Frances without resistance; and, having gained the room where the latter conducted her, wept in silence on the shoulder of the observant and soothing girl, until Frances thought her tears exceeded the emotion natural to the occasion.
"Nay, Betty, nay," said the sergeant, laying his hand familiarly on her shoulder; "if there must be riding to-night, let it be by him whose duty it is to call out the men and set an example.
"'Tis well, sir," said Wellmere, haughtily, and retreating towards the door, "my situation protects you now; but a time may come - "He had reached the entry, when a slight tap on his shoulder caused him to turn his head; it was Captain Lawton, who, with a smile of peculiar meaning, beckoned him to follow.
His head, white with the frost of seventy winters, sank upon the shoulder of the frantic suppliant.
Ever since the preacher has left him, he don't look as he used to do - but," gazing intently over the shoulder of his officer, "it must be him, too!
The man complied instantly, and Birch received his gun with eagerness; nor did he lay it upon his shoulder to renew their march, before he had carefully examined the priming, and ascertained, to his satisfaction, that it contained a good, dry, ball cartridge.
Presently they were shoulder to shoulder.
Next he rose on his hind feet and pranced around, in a frenzy of enjoyment, with his head over his shoulder and his voice proclaiming his unappeasable happiness.
Dead people might talk, maybe, but they don't come sliding around in a shroud, when you ain't noticing, and peep over your shoulder all of a sudden and grit their teeth, the way a ghost does.
I sat down among the heather with my chin on my hand, turning the thing over in my mind, and watching him in his old brown clothes, with the end of a grey plaid flapping over his shoulder, as he picked his way up the swell of the hill.
As I came through the side door someone touched my shoulder, and there was Edie in the gloaming.
Then suddenly he stuck in his speech, and stared with his mouth open over my shoulder.
I saw her hand passed over his shoulder, and that his kisses were as welcome to her as ever mine had been.
"It was only last night," said I, "that she told me that I was the only man in all this earth that she could ever bring herself to love."Jim Horscroft put out a shaking hand and laid it on my shoulder, while he pushed his face forward to look into my eyes.
"You see, Jock!" said he, looking over her shoulder.
We took him by a shoulder each and turned him upon his back.
I asked, as we all walked up the hill together, he with his black bag in his hand and his long blue cloak slung over his shoulder.
It was so queer that I was determined to come to the bottom of it; so, tired as I was, I turned my shoulder on home, and walked swiftly towards the tower.
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