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Almost immediately the door of the carriage was opened, the young man sprang lightly out and presented his hand to Milady, who leaned upon it, and in her turn alighted with tolerable calmness.
Felton no doubt felt within himself that his strength was abandoning him, and he made several steps toward the door; but the prisoner, whose eye never left him, sprang in pursuit of him and stopped him.
Milady sprang toward him.
Then, when he thought I had said all, he advanced toward me; I sprang toward the table, I seized a knife, I placed it to my breast.
Milady sprang out of bed and opened the window.
"Never?""Help!" shouted the duke; and at the same time he sprang toward his sword.
Milady sprang out of bed.
"I believe everything," said Athos biting his lips till the blood sprang to avoid sighing.
Athos sprang from his horse, gave the bridle to Grimaud, and advanced toward the window, after having made a sign to the rest of the troop to go toward the door.
Athos sprang over the hedge and went up to the window, which was without shutters, but had the half-curtains closely drawn.
D’Artagnan drew his sword, and sprang toward the door.
Thence sprang a feverish state of excitement in which the impatient irascible traveller devoted to perdition the railway directors and the steamboat companies and the governments which allowed such intolerable slowness.
Here the architects of the middle ages might have found studies for every form of the sacred art which sprang from the development of the pointed arch.
Then, as it would seem, he became as one that hath a devil, for, rushing down the stairs into the dining-hall, he sprang upon the great table, flagons and trenchers flying before him, and he cried aloud before all the company that he would that very night render his body and soul to the Powers of Evil if he might but overtake the wench.
A dull light shone through heavy mullioned windows, and from the high chimneys which rose from the steep, high-angled roof there sprang a single black column of smoke.
He walked into the room, and as he did so Barrymore sprang up from the window with a sharp hiss of his breath and stood, livid and trembling, before us.
His agitation was so great that he could hardly speak, and the shadows sprang up and down from the shaking of his candle.
I sprang forward therefore, and Sir Henry did the same.
I caught one glimpse of his short, squat, strongly- built figure as he sprang to his feet and turned to run.
A maid showed me in without ceremony, and as I entered the sitting-room a lady, who was sitting before a Remington typewriter, sprang up with a pleasant smile of welcome.
The lady sprang from her chair.
I sprang to my feet, my inert hand grasping my pistol, my mind paralyzed by the dreadful shape which had sprung out upon us from the shadows of the fog.
The dog, incited by its master, sprang over the wicket-gate and pursued the unfortunate baronet, who fled screaming down the Yew Alley.
He still held the light, but his fingers twitched, and with every twitch the shadows sprang from the walls to the ceiling.
Jim sprang after it, and I was left half-fainting in the moonlight.
Jim sprang upon it like a tiger.
He sprang out as he spoke, and with one leg and a staff he hopped swiftly up the path, and under the laurel-bordered motto, and so over his own threshold for the first time for five years.
It chanced that I was the cause of it, and as great events sprang out of it, I must tell you how it came about.
Sometimes it was as a sportsman that his reputation reached us, as when his Meteor beat the Duke of Queensberry's Egham, at Newmarket, or when he brought Jim Belcher up from Bristol, and sprang him upon the London fancy.
He sprang up and lashed at his horses.
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