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Elizabeth hesitated, but her knees trembled under her and she felt how little would be gained by her attempting to pursue them.
His voice trembled, but he continued,--"The expedition set out and proceeded across Australia.
I could not but observe that as she took the seat which Sherlock Holmes placed for her, her lip trembled, her hand quivered, and she showed every sign of intense inward agitation.
Still discomposed with the idea that his brother, so much injured, and to whom he was so much indebted, had suddenly arrived in his native kingdom, even the distinctions pointed out by Fitzurse did not altogether remove the Prince's apprehensions; and while, with a short and embarrassed eulogy upon his valour, he caused to be delivered to him the war-horse assigned as the prize, he trembled lest from the barred visor of the mailed form before him, an answer might be returned, in the deep and awful accents of Richard the Lion-hearted.
The Jew's hand trembled for joy as he wrapped up the first seventy pieces of gold.
Rowena had no sooner beheld him than she uttered a faint shriek; but at once summoning up the energy of her disposition, and compelling herself, as it were, to proceed, while her frame yet trembled with the violence of sudden emotion, she placed upon the drooping head of the victor the splendid chaplet which was the destined reward of the day, and pronounced, in a clear and distinct tone, these words:"I bestow on thee this chaplet, Sir Knight, as the meed of valour assigned to this day's victor:" Here she paused a moment, and then firmly added, "And upon brows more worthy could a wreath of chivalry never be placed!"
I am not a man to be moved by a woman's lament for her lover, but this same Lady Rowena suppressed her sorrow with such dignity of manner, that it could only be discovered by her folded hands, and her tearless eye, which trembled as it remained fixed on the lifeless form before her.""Who is this Lady Rowena," said Prince John, "of whom we have heard so much?""A Saxon heiress of large possessions," replied the Prior Aymer; "a rose of loveliness, and a jewel of wealth; the fairest among a thousand, a bundle of myrrh, and a cluster of camphire."
The prisoner trembled, however, and changed colour, when a step was heard on the stair, and the door of the turret-chamber slowly opened, and a tall man, dressed as one of those banditti to whom they owed their misfortune, slowly entered, and shut the door behind him; his cap, pulled down upon his brows, concealed the upper part of his face, and he held his mantle in such a manner as to muffle the rest.
Can the wrinkled decrepit hag before thee, whose wrath must vent itself in impotent curses, forget she was once the daughter of the noble Thane of Torquilstone, before whose frown a thousand vassals trembled?"
Her voice faltered and her hand trembled, and it was only the cold question of Ivanhoe,"Is it you, gentle maiden?" which recalled her to herself, and reminded her the sensations which she felt were not and could not be mutual.
Kitty's nether lip trembled, and she rose quickly.
'Tell me everything...Is there any hope?' she meant to ask, but her lips trembled and she could not utter that question, and only added: 'Well, doctor?''In a moment, Princess.
But though she tried to be calm her lips trembled.
Her hand, toying with a leaf that she had pulled off, trembled.
But I demand that the external conditions of propriety shall be observed till' – his voice trembled – 'till I take measures to safeguard my honour and inform you of them.'
After looking at the portrait for about a minute he shuddered and his lips trembled and made a sound like 'brr' as he turned away.
Her lips trembled and her eyes seemed to him to be looking at him with strange malevolence from under the veil.
Only just before he left Nicholas kissed Constantine, and suddenly said with a strange and serious look at his brother,'Do not think too badly of me, Kostya!' and his voice trembled.
He understood this, and tears trembled in his eyes.
It all happened at the same time; one of the boys ran after a pigeon and looked smilingly up at Levin; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered up, glittering in the sunshine amid the snow-dust that trembled in the air; from the window came the scent of fresh-baked bread and the loaves were put out.
His lower jaw trembled; he struggled with his agitation, every now and then glancing at her.
Her lip trembled so that for a long time she could not speak.
You have improved so, you little boy! – But how pale you are!''Yes, I feel very weak,' she said with a smile, and her lip trembled again.
He recognised himself as being personally interested in the wager, and trembled at the thought that he might have been the means of losing it by his unpardonable folly of the night before.
Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
All this time the Queen had never left off staring at the Hatter, and, just as the Dormouse crossed the court, she said to one of the officers of the court, 'Bring me the list of the singers in the last concert!' on which the wretched Hatter trembled so, that he shook both his shoes off.
When he stepped upon the ground with his feet, I thought the earth trembled, just as it had done before in the earthquake, and all the air looked, to my apprehension, as if it had been filled with flashes of fire.
But these thoughts still were attended with this difficulty: that it was impossible to effect this without attacking a whole caravan of them, and killing them all; and this was not only a very desperate attempt, and might miscarry, but, on the other hand, I had greatly scrupled the lawfulness of it to myself; and my heart trembled at the thoughts of shedding so much blood, though it was for my deliverance.
The poor creature, who had at a distance, indeed, seen me kill the savage, his enemy, but did not know, nor could imagine how it was done, was sensibly surprised, trembled, and shook, and looked so amazed that I thought he would have sunk down.
However, I saw the poor fellow was most terribly scared, for nothing ran in his head but that they were come to look for him, and would cut him in pieces and eat him; and the poor fellow trembled so that I scarcely knew what to do with him.
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