Yet she did not learn wisdom therefrom but pursued her policy of repression all the more rigorously; for it occasionally came home to her, as Laura let down tucks, that Emily was on the verge of beginning to grow up and that various breakers and reefs loomed ahead, ominously magnified in the mist of unseen years.
She felt that she was on the verge of solving the mystery that had so long worried and puzzled her.
It was an interesting place—and she rather thought she would like to describe it in the old account book, if it hadn't been burned—but Emily suddenly found herself trembling on the verge of tears.
" The sketch when completed was of a sort to be shunned by a timid person on the verge of slumber.
Perhaps because of his very weakness Rebecca's decision of character had a fascination for him, and although she snubbed him to the verge of madness, he could never keep his eyes away from her.
' Anna forced her courage to the verge of rashness, moved by a swift impulse.
I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter.
I was walking thus one evening, and had been detained farther within the verge of twilight than usual, by the still-deepening calm, the mellow coolness, the fragrant breathing with which flowers no sunshine could win now answered the persuasion of the dew.
" "I can't tell you that," stammered Cecily, on the verge of tears.
"I think it was real mean of her to pretend she was deaf," said Felicity, almost on the verge of tears.
She had been on the very verge of betraying Leslie's secret.
He is clearly on the verge of madness: he was so last night at least.
The search was extended to the extreme verge of the mountain.
But nothing appeared on the farthest verge of the horizon, that is to say over a radius of more than fifty miles.
" Higgins was on the verge of being panic-stricken.
On this one point there was entire community of feeling in the four widely differing beings who sat round the dying fire of sticks, which made a cheap warmth for them on the verge of bedtime.
She was unpleasantly conscious that she had been on the verge of speaking as "one of the foolish women speaketh"—telling first and entreating silence after.
I saw that his wife was on the verge of tears.
I have been to Paris a hundred times, and it never fails to give me a thrill of excitement; I can never walk its streets without feeling myself on the verge of adventure.
She encouraged the general idea of the verge of a nervous breakdown.
