"Straining" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... melancholy in the dark. And oh'—she squeezed his wrist—'you have grown so thin! You do frighten me. Whatever should I do if you were really ill? And it was so odd, dear. When first I woke I seemed to be still straining my eyes in a dream, at such a curious, haunting face—not very nice. I am glad, I am glad you ...
— The Return • Walter de la Mare
... his head raised, listening. No sound. Surely she was asleep. In spite of all the violence she had shown in their after-talk, the memory of her speech to Mrs. Watton lingered in the young fellow's mind. It astonished him to realise, as he stood there, in this morning silence, straining to hear if his wife were moving overhead, how, pari passu with the headlong progress of his act of homage to the one woman, certain sharp perceptions with regard to the other had been rising in ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... Trenton, don't!" she cried as he leaned still further over the water, straining the branch ...
— One Day's Courtship - The Heralds Of Fame • Robert Barr
... tangled skein of far-away villages surged foaming seas of cloud, which appeared to separate high, bright peaks from shadowed vales, by incredible distances. As far as the eye could travel with utmost straining, away to the dark, imposing background of the Djurdjura range, billowed ridges and ravines, ravines and ridges, each pointing pinnacle or razor-shelf adorned with its coral-red hamlet, like a group of poisonous fungi, or the barnacles on a ship's steep side. Such ...
— The Golden Silence • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... darling?" he responded, straining her to his breast. "I don't know how I shall be able to stand it. You need not be surprised to see me again at any time, returning to claim my treasure; and in the meanwhile we will write to each other every day. I shall want to know all you ...
— Elsie's Girlhood • Martha Finley
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