There was such an air of patient and enduring suffering in the whole group, that, as I gazed heart-stricken upon it, my fortitude quite gave way, and I burst into tears.
Moodie turned the open lantern in the direction from whence the sounds came, and shouted as loud as he could, at the same time endeavouring to urge forward the fear-stricken dog, whose cowardice was only equalled by my own.
He looked for Indian Tom's swamp, and where it had been there was no longer a swamp but a stricken chaos of ten thousand black stubs, the shriven corpses of the spruce and cedar and jackpines out of which the wolves had howled at night.
That afternoon his valiant calls caught the ear of a weasel--possibly the very one which he had seen in the morning trailing the panic-stricken rabbit.
The purple face and loud gasps of the stricken man terrified them out of their senses.
She had enough affection for Eustacie to have grieved much at her wanderings and at her fate; and now the sorrow-stricken look that by no effort could be concealed really moved her towards the youth bereaved husband.
The Reformed were less and less what his ardent youthful hopes had trusted to see them; and in his old age he was a sorrow-stricken man, as much for the cause of religion as for personal bereavements.
In a terror-stricken fray men are no respecters of persons,' replied Sir Francis.
Jack Meredith was leaning forward, watching with a certain sense of fascination the wild, disease-stricken face, listening to the man's breathless periods.
It would have been very simple to abandon the river station, leaving there such men as were stricken down to care for each other.
It was strange that this man, who never could have closed his eyes again, should have been stricken down by the sleeping sickness.
Oscard had seen a whole village devastated by it, the habitants lying about their own doors, stricken down by a deadly sleep from which they never woke.
The tension loosed, The stricken widow turned, yet ere she turned She scanned the northern shore of brilliant night, And, lo, a mountain mass of tempest clouds Lined up for battle with the sleeping south.
Without it all the eastern part of the colony and part of the Piedmont would have become a land of wealthy proprietors and their slaves, and ignorant, degraded, poverty-stricken whites.
Then, in an instant, they all disappeared together, the stricken whale still dragging the mate's boat after him at an incredible speed.
A hand was laid on his shoulder, and turning he met the pale face of the surviving surgeon of the fever-stricken ship.
It argues that if France wasstricken with defeat, it was because she deserved punishment.
But under the circumstances the only hope for the poor stricken fellow lay in his employer's compassion, if not his sense of justice.
One afternoon, just as Thomas was about to repair to the Grandidier works, some one came to Guillaume's with the news that old Toussaint, the workman, had been stricken with a fresh attack of paralysis.
It was this conviction which now returned to him as he again cast eyes upon that want and grief stricken district which seemed fated to everlasting destitution.
Of course I am at your disposal," he replied; "but before talking of that matter I should like to tell you that we have just seen Toussaint, that poor old fellow who has been stricken with paralysis.
The three, bound together in such close ties of sympathy, were stricken as with a new and appalling affliction.
He had advocated change, travel, aught that might compass a surcease of the indulgence of sorrow and dreary seclusion, that are so dear and so pernicious to the stricken heart.
The obvious accession of dismay betokened the increasing acuteness of the crisis, and Briscoe's attitude, as of helpless paralysis, stricken as it were into stone as he gazed toward the door, heralded an approach.
But a glimpse of Dylara's suddenlystricken expression checked them there, unuttered.
Javan, blinked stolidly at the stricken man, put into words the unvoiced question of the others.
In the silence Tamar rose to his feet and met the stricken eyes of his friends.
Trakor, stricken dumb with astonishment at this new development, followed him into the street as Tharn slammed shut the gate and dropped its bar into place a split second before a heavy shoulder thudded against its opposite side.
Moreover, when during that time he was spoken to or patted, he always turned away his head in a ludicrously conscience-stricken manner.
Farnell points out that the epithets which designate him as the god to whom those stricken with guilt can appeal are far more in vogue in actual Greek cult than those which attribute to him the function of vengeance and retribution.
Among some Indian **tribes of North America it was customary for individuals to mark their arrows, in order that the strickengame might fall to the man by whose arrow it had been despatched (Powell, in Ann.
For Trent was a sorely stricken man and the flavour of life had gone from him.
Monty, as white as death, was stricken dumb to see Trent.
He leaned against a tree, stricken dumb, and she was frightened.
Gentle voices, assuaging hands, and sweet charities were about the stricken ones; and pious hands, with all Christian observances, ministered to their beautiful dead.
As it is healthful and needful for young children to cry away their pains and aches, so the stricken and pained soul finds relief in pouring itself out in oversweeping grief.
Morris walked forward, with their mother; and when he turned back to the stricken face of his young brother, there was a great tenderness in his eye; but his brow gathered and his face darkened into a momentary frown.
The stricken and lonely mother was in the sanctity of her own room.
Her love for Rod had been stricken of a mortal illness the night of their arrival in New York.
The heavy shackles had been stricken off at a blow.
Laskoy was too terror-stricken to take upon him the task before which his junior quailed.
Mathias Raby stood horror-stricken on the highway, while around him the wintry wind swept over the stubble fields, and carried it with the sound as of a howling of many voices that echoed afar off like the laughter of despair.
But the plague-stricken woman would not allow a soul to come near her, and refused all attempt at help or consolation, for she, being a Calvinist, would not even see the kindly Capuchin friar who came to offer his services.
In the white determination of her face, confronting him with this untruth, he saw enough of the last perversion and distortion of good surviving in that miserable breast, to be stricken with remorse that he had ever come near her.
Redlaw, laying his hand upon his arm, "I am a stricken man, on whom the hand of Providence has fallen heavily, although deservedly.
On the 13th of August Gorgei, who had been appointed dictator by the panic-stricken government two days before, surrendered the remnant of his hardly pressed army to the Russian General Rudiger at Vilagos.
For in soulless features, however regular and attractive, suffering reveals the flesh; this girl, stricken with deadly pallor, led the thoughts to the purest ideals of womanhood transfigured by woe in the pictures of old time.
Gilbert averted his face as he passed them, and for the moment his eyes had their pain-stricken look.
The desolate, plague-stricken place had a dismal fascination for me.
Suppose he should have been stricken suddenly by this deadly malady!
All deep love and close companionship seemed stricken out of my life.
The name of Frau von Breuning stricken out of the dedication of the arrangement of the Concerto.
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