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A flame mounted to his cheeks, a nervous spasm drew his mouth, from which flowed a thin streak of black saliva.
The need to kill seized him irresistibly, a physical need, like the irritation of mucus which causes a violent spasm of coughing.
His face was pale from some spasm of his heart, which must have stopped beating for an instant.
But by an effort of will the spasm passed; then—"It is nothing," she said, "it is nothing!
The widder wouldn't let me smoke; she wouldn't let me yell, she wouldn't let me gape, nor stretch, nor scratch, before folks--" [Then with a spasm of special irritation and injury]--"And dad fetch it, she prayed all the time!
"Assuredly not," replied Don Vicente; "my cruel fortune must have carried those tidings to thee to drive thee in thy jealousy to take my life; and to assure thyself of this, press my hands and take me for thy husband if thou wilt; I have no better satisfaction to offer thee for the wrong thou fanciest thou hast received from me."Claudia wrung his hands, and her own heart was so wrung that she lay fainting on the bleeding breast of Don Vicente, whom a death spasm seized the same instant.
listened to her praise of Lucy with only moving from one chair to another, and when Mrs. Jennings talked of Edward's affection, it cost her only a spasm in her throat.--Such
While reading this letter, d’Artagnan felt his heart dilated and compressed by that delicious spasm which tortures and caresses the hearts of lovers.
"That was no reason for staking my diamond!" replied d’Artagnan, closing his hand with a nervous spasm.
The agony of those contorted limbs struck me with a spasm of pain and blurred my eyes with tears.
As to Wilson, he was exactly as he had begun in appearance, but twice I saw him close his lips sharply as if he were in a sudden spasm of pain, and the blotches over his ribs were darkening from scarlet to a sullen purple.
"He has gone to denounce me," said Lord Avon, a spasm of wounded pride distorting his features.
"It is singular that I, who had never feared him in life, should be frightened at him now, and yet when I looked at him, and saw that all was motionless save the creeping stain upon the carpet, I was seized with a sudden foolish spasm of terror, and, catching up my knife, I fled swiftly and silently back to my own room, closing the panels behind me.
In the course of the tale I had mentioned Mr. Lloyd as having come to see me after the fit: for I never forgot the, to me, frightful episode of the red-room: in detailing which, my excitement was sure, in some degree, to break bounds; for nothing could soften in my recollection the spasm of agony which clutched my heart when Mrs. Reed spurned my wild supplication for pardon, and locked me a second time in the dark and haunted chamber.
As I spoke he gave my wrist a convulsive grip; the smile on his lips froze: apparently a spasm caught his breath.
And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room, and so did I.
Do with me and for me as you like; but excuse me from much discourse--my breath is short--I feel a spasm when I speak."
That bloodless lip quivered to a temporary spasm.
There was a spasm of surprise.
A spasm seemed to come over her, a fit of suffocation; then she suddenlybegan to sob into the pillow.
His hands dimmed the air, creating a cloud, bright, living, quivering, voluptuous, surrounding the half-fainting form of a maiden shaken by a spasm of delight.
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