As for its inventor, beyond an increasing deafness and the movement of the
lips growing fainter and fainter, there had been little change in his condition for a week.
His
lips moved, and though no sound came forth that might have been appreciable to a human ear beyond the walls of his prison, yet he realized that the one beyond would hear.
For an instant they stood thus, the eyes of the man sinking deep into the eyes of the maid, and then hers closed and with a little sigh that was half gasp she swayed toward him, and the Devil of Torn folded the King's niece in his mighty arms and his
lips placed the seal of a great love upon those that were upturned to him.
She had put her
lips up to be kissed, but he wasn't going to kiss her.
Her
lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy, The Night-Mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.
Her flowerlike
lips touched the withered cheek and warmed its frost.
At length he sank down in utter prostration, and his friends heard no other sound from him than the hissing of his breath between his parched and swollen
lips.
Perhaps she touches with her
lips its expanding chalice.
For twenty years your kiss has lain upon my
lips - and you
His arm steals round her; he repeats his question in a whisper; his
lips almost touch her little rosy ear as he says it again:
For Jove had not bedeviled her ears, and she heard from the
lips of each blessed Shade an incessant flow of quotation from his own works.
But soon even these intervals of consciousness ended, and she lay hour after hour, tossing to and fro, with incoherent words on her
lips, or sank into a heavy sleep which brought her no refreshment.