This was his particular reason for remaining silent for a short space after his last draught, and rubbing his knees in a meditative manner.
It was as if she had drunk a great draught of scorn that stimulated her beyond the susceptibility to other feelings.
Limp, after taking a draught, placed his flat hands together and pressed them hard between his knees, looking down at them with blear-eyed contemplation, as if the scorching power of Mrs.
"You medical gentlemen must consult which sort of black draught you will prescribe, eh, Mr.
Featherstone, holding his stick between his knees and settling his wig, while he gave her a momentary sharp glance, which seemed to react on him like a draught of cold air and set him coughing.
And he went away and shut the door, and the sudden draught of it blew out the candle.
Ata pierced a hole in it, and the doctor took a long, refreshing draught.
Finally I gave him a draught, and he sank into uneasy slumber.
The floor was well-worn red brick, and on the wide hearth burnt a fire of logs, between two attractive chimney-corners tucked away in the wall, well out of any suspicion of draught.
Thirst for human companionship possessed him as he panted in the metropolitan draught.
She had had one draught from a divine cup and now it was dashed from her lips.
I feel a draught.
His hand closed on the fatal draught.
On this occasion, however, she did not give Peter his draught, for just as she had prepared it, she saw a look on his face that made her heart sink.
A ship in sail, a blooming flower, a town at night, a lovely poem, leaf shadows, a child's grace, the starry skies, apple trees in spring--the thought of beauty--these are the drops of rain that keep the human spirit from death by draught.
We will learn of nature how to live she shall be our alchemist, to mingle all the good of life in one salubrious draught.
I shall become a delicate draught of air and caress you; and I shall be ripples in the water when you bathe, and kiss you and kiss you again.
there' less draught.
If not the goblet pass unquaff'd, ,, It is not drain'd to banish care; ; The cup must hold a deadlier draught, , That brings a Lethe for despair.
" And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said, "The cook must know what the food is like.
