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Instantly there was a shrill, vicious snarl from within, and a wide-open, triangular mouth, set with white teeth, darted at his nose.
With the mild and good, they become softened and improved, but with the dissipated and violent, are too often disorderly and vicious.
I saw many other English schemes for the welfare of distant nations, so that not a people was to remain vicious, ignorant, or oppressed.
It is a tax upon light and air, a tax more vicious in principle and more injurious in its practical consequences than a tax upon food.
Its tail began to whip from side to side, and its lip lifted at one corner in a vicious snarl, uncovering the white fang.
I began to tighten the girths, venting my feelings on Firefly until the animal swung around and made a vicious pass at my arm.
As the boys burst into the room they whirled about, only to find themselves looking into the muzzles of four vicious looking army pistols.
Its amusements were cruel and vicious, and the Puritans did nothing to improve them, but denounced them altogether and held themselves aloof.
His hands shook as he fumbled with the key of his steel box, and at a particularly vicious remark of mine he stood erect.
This did not suit the hawk, and it continued circling about its faltering prey with a vicious swiftness well calculated to inspire terror.
Coming in contact with hardened and vicious criminals, what hope is there for getting these boys into the paths of honesty and uprightness?
The rather austere rule of William and Mary had not really purged the court of vicious habits, though such had been steadily discouraged.
Here, as well as at Pray, you depose those who are good and religious; you promote to the highest dignities the worthless and the vicious.
She said all at once, and the parasol bent dangerously as she gave it a particularly vicious twist, leaning upon it at the same time.
Here, as well as at Bray, you depose those who are good and religious; you promote to the highest dignities the worthless and the vicious.
They would just take their places at the end of the long row of meaningless, disturbing, vicious facts that cluttered up his mind.
It was a very sad little face, thin and colorless, not bold and vicious, but timid and having a look of patient suffering.
It was not to be expected that the popular mind could spontaneously extricate itself from the vicious circle in which it was involved.
This he did, but he only brought the good and beautiful back to life, leaving the cruel and vicious, and deformed ones, dead.
Then the vicious smiting of hoofs as the Captain, bearing his witless rider, swung in a short circle and made for the river.
And instantly such a villainous array of vicious yellow faces was turned on him as he had never before in his life set eyes on.
He seemed to remember that an old enemy was near at hand and turned the corner of the heap of boxes with a vicious snarl.
Finally, in a state of exasperation, he struck a vicious blow at a nail which had evaded his previous attacks, and hit his thumb instead.
Frederick the Great, in times of peace, exhibited a vicious pragmatism which rendered his civil rule contemptible when contrasted with his military success.
Pigeon said that in her experience she had never met a child of five or six, however perverted and vicious, who was refractory to education.
This is to be understood of healthy eyes, but those which are dull through vicious humidity, from these Garlic drives this viciousness away.
Let the infamy in which they should rightly share be borne by those who countenance the current acceptance of so vicious a distinction!
The vicious gust blew itself out shortly, but not until both boys were stiff from holding that huddled position in the freezing air.
It is a state which cannot continue, it is disquieting and painful; only vicious tendencies and an idle heart can keep us in that state.
In this hour of cold reasoning, of almost vicious hatred of all things pertaining to his condition, he hoped it would be late, or never.
Exclaimed Nannie, giving it a vicious pinch and missing her prey, which, with a calm look, sailed into the water, wagging its tail.
They strike vicious blows with their front feet, as well as with their heavy antlers, and make dangerous foes for man or beast.
The vicious tame dogs, pretending to be wild, hate the real clean wildness of an unbroken thing much more than do the respectable tame people.
The stones hailed down round about him; occasionally one vicious missile would whiz past his ear, and send a cold shudder through him.
His ill-clad and uncouth figure moves among the vicious and prosperous, and we perceive the ugliness of vice, and the poverty of wealth.
It seemed to him that if he looked again at that vicious, contracted face, his gun would slip into his hand of its own volition.
In both cases there may be a rank growth of weeds, nurtured in vicious imagination, and finding a ready market with the credulous mob.
To place the vicious vagrant, the wandering Arabs, the Tartar hordes of our large cities on the level with the virtuous and good man?
He was watching her as she stood in the darkening twilight, gloating over the thought that his vicious dreams were so near their fulfillment.
She was fearfully frightened by its large, grave eyes and vicious pincers, but the glittering of its body and wings fascinated her.
The animal so afflicted becomes vicious, pays no attention to commands, cries, runs about in a circle, stamps with the feet, strikes, kicks, etc.
"No vehement phrases will leave my mouth, no vicious gestures will give my feelings away, not even when they don't feed us on time."
Men of vicious private life have more than once been benefactors of the human race; I think that never happened in the case of a woman.
After two hours of sweating out his helplessness, he had discovered a lively resentment of the vicious callousness with which he had been jettisoned.
So, like wild cattle hustled into a pound, they were left to their own vicious instincts, and those often led to riot and revolt.
Their pupils, in after-life, are seldom vicious and licentious characters, and are in general men of learning, science, and possessed of every elegant accomplishment.
Suddenly, he reared straight into the air carrying the youth with him, then with a vicious lunge he threw himself backward upon the ground.
The regard we owe our neighbor does not bind us to a politeness that might be construed as an approval or encouragement of his vicious habits.
I fancy he is as little acquainted with the vicious manners of the court as myself, as he seemed under some confusion on his first conversation.
It appears to me to be the work of a true poet in the most vicious age of English poetry, and infected with all its faults.
Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?
The common theory that the critical faculties are best developed by training the mind to detect shortcomings is as vicious as it is false.
There was a tangle, and vicious squealing of beasts, through which Romney observed that his camel driver conducted himself with singular calm.
Such incidents are symptomatic of a tendency which must inevitably degrade those who yield to it, and which is at once vicious and deteriorating.
The people I refer to are dirty and foul and vicious, as tigers are fierce and vindictive and cruel, because it is part of their nature.
The horses which have been provided for us are vicious; they shy at the first object that comes in their way, and become restive.
A vicious wave would fling the boat almost out of the water, and then a foaming breaker seemed about to seize it in its remorseless grasp.
They knew everything, but they were able to do nothing, being too young, fumbling and playing for hours at the games of vicious puppies.
No more vicious doctrine than this, which so many excellent and well-intentioned persons are fond of preaching, has ever been formulated by human perversity.
This she ascribed to the different genius of the people, but I think unjustly, believing that it is entirely owing to their vicious government.
The case of Eliza M., who has worked as cook in a disreputable house for ten years, is that of a woman forced into vicious surroundings.
Even the smallest shrews have razor-like teeth and vicious tempers, which give members of the mouse world great fear of these terrible little assassins.
They therefore either choose some profession which requires little exertion, allowing them many idle hours; or addict themselves to unlawful courses, and vicious habits.
After more probing questions and vicious jabs at the form, she handed it to the cop who dropped it in a nearby wall slot.
He only meant to speak of the vicious and abandoned, whereas those whom he saw around him, were patterns of virtue, loveliness, and modesty.
A man may embrace sufficient knowledge to detect some of his errors, yet command too little energy to divest himself of his vicious propensities.
Evidently it was a much harder thing to lasso one of these little pearl atrocities with its alleged "loop" than to rope a vicious steer.
To repeat the words which I have put into the objector's mouth, we do not always work out every vicious principle to its remotest inference.
More or less oppressed with life myself at the time, I was against all bosses, and particularly against so seemingly a vicious one as this.
It is because he had followed at first the counsels of his wicked son of vicious soul, addicted to crooked ways and confirmed in folly.
The greatest evils of populous society have ever appeared to me to spring from the vicious distribution of its members among the occupations called for.
If the comparatively good were separated from the relatively vicious, it is not improbable that the latter would soon fall into a state of barbarity.
A dozen armed men, outlaws and fugitives of the most vicious kind from Big Cypress Swamp, were scattered systematically over the thousand-acre tract.
We even hear of the studies of Chopin being perverted in a similarly vicious manner, but Bach, the master of masters, is the greatest sufferer.
A virtuous man is able to delineate the vice he does despise; but a vicious man cannot imitate the heavenly virtue he has not in his breast.
Statistics show how insecure is business, on what vicious principles it is transacted, and how rapidly property is concentrating in the hands of a few.
Both the excise and customs at the close of the war were marked by some of the worst defects of a vicious kind of taxation.
He is snowed under with equal effectiveness if he tries to keep town labor up to contract, or tries to take away the vicious drugstore liquor license.
Bellowed the other, at the same time making several vicious sweeps through the air with his poised paddle, as if to emphasize his pugnacious intentions.
It is also true that if by preaching the fear of hell the churches succeed in preventing vicious men from doing harm, they are benefactors.
For it must have been that the really brave and honest men in vast majority retraced their steps while the vicious kept running.
At dusk, after prevailing in one more melee of bayonets, flashing knives, and bare hands against a particularly vicious counterattack, the company had to withdraw.
This system of breaking the most nervous or vicious animals is, in our opinion, except with those suffering from some form of disease, invariably efficacious.
Not only educating, but seeing that they were properly clothed and housed and fed, and removed from their vicious surroundings, parents or guardians.
After this his pranks were worse than ever, but he obeyed his father's instructions, and harmed only vicious and idle and cross-grained people.
A sharp pinch of an arm, his elbow applied vigorously to a side, a vicious kick upon a shin, cleared his way of three boys.
Cold tentacles whipped against his face and her teeth closed together beside his cheek with a vicious snap and gust of hot breath.
I was thrice as vicious as he, I verily believe, as I threw myself in against his body and fastened my clutch on his throat.
The other, white, to cancel the launching command broadcast automatically if massive radiation spewed across the homeland ... a vast, vicious death reflex.
I believe she was a leper and an outcast, but she was undoubtedly ugly, vicious, and old; and, being old, she was obstinate.
The wife told him that he was perverse; for no one could seduce a virtuous woman, and a vicious woman no husband could guard successfully.
The itching curiosity of the spiteful or the vicious must seek its gratification at other hands than ours: we will not be its ministers.
In case three, we have the origin of an abnormal perception of something unreal, a hallucination, begotten by a vicious activity within, in the sensory center.
Often an unattached country girl, who has come to live in a city, has gradually fallen into a vicious life from sheer lack of social restraint.
Quick as a flash he drew his knife, and before the others realized what he was about to do, made a vicious lunge at Bob's breast.
Many a candidate has had his hands crushed and been permanently hurt by the vise-like grip of an ardent admirer or a vicious opponent.
Tom was fond of his father, and although mischievous, and too fond of drinking when he could obtain liquor, was not disobedient or vicious.
The cows are generally very docile and gentle, but the males when past two or three years of age often become vicious and unmanageable.
Its character, however, is anything but saintly; it is a most vicious wretch that may well be called the tiger of the insect world.
The requirements of society and of daily life exert a powerful and salutary restraint by the obstacle which they present to a vicious career.