" she thought in a momentary burst of vindictiveness.
A momentary sensation of relief flashed through her, and then she saw that the gate of the school-yard was open.
I caught this glance, despite its veiled character; the momentary gleam shot a meaning which struck me.
After all it might be only a chance look, or at best the token of a merely momentary impression.
Lockwood, I cannot express what a terrible start I got by the momentary view!
I started: my bodily eye was cheated into a momentary belief that the child lifted its face and stared straight into mine!
Two were fired—one, aimed at Bob Harvey, did not wound him, or at any rate only slightly, and Ayrton, profiting by the momentary retreat of his adversaries, rushed towards the companion-ladder to gain the deck.
This momentary check gave Jack a chance to bolt up the back stairs and take refuge in the Bird Room, from the window of which Jill had been watching the race with great interest.
She remembered the momentary feeling of reliance that had sprung in her when he was talking with her, and she waited with yearning expectation for the opportunity of confiding everything to him.
' It has never been my will to marry you; if you were to win consent from the momentary triumph of my feeling for you, you would not have my whole soul.
That momentary happiness had been smitten with a blight, a leprosy; Stephen thought more lightly of her than he did of Lucy.
" And there was that slight pressure of the hands, and momentary meeting of the eyes, which will often leave a little lady with a slight flush and smile on her face that do not subside immediately when the door is closed, and with an inclination to walk up and down the room rather than to seat herself quietly at her embroidery, or other rational and improving occupation.
" Philip's face had flushed, and there was a momentary eagerness of expression, as if he had been about to resist this decision with all his might.
Maggie, on the contrary, after her momentary delight in Tom's speech, had relapsed into her state of trembling indignation.
" Tom looked up with that momentary stopping of the breath which comes with a sudden joy; then he gave a long sigh, and turned his blue-gray eyes straight on Philip's face, as he had not done for a fortnight or more.
); the tones were a music from which he was falling away—he had really fallen into a momentary doze, when Rosamond said in her silvery neutral way, "Here is your tea, Tertius," setting it on the small table by his side, and then moved back to her place without looking at him.
He had never since the memorable evening deviated from his old pastoral kindness towards her, and her momentary wonder and doubt had quite gone to sleep.
His mother left her tea and toast untouched, but sat with her usual pretty primness, only showing her emotion by that flush in the cheeks and brightness in the eyes which give an old woman a touching momentary identity with her far-off youthful self, and saying decisively— "The greatest comfort, Camden, is that you have deserved it.
Even the points it clings to—the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung—are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of fingertips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors.
It must be confessed, also, that momentary speculations as to all the possible grounds for Mrs.