Helen's hands closed, and her fingers were tightly enlaced as she tried to find a way out of her difficulties.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
So horrible was the impression that once more she felt fascinated, and gazed down with starting eyes, her enlaced fingers clutching more tightly, and her whole being as if under the influence of a nightmare.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn
There was nothing to be seen, though, for they had descended now to where rocks had given place to jungle, and the banks were one impenetrable mass of creeper-enlaced trees, the monotony being hardly enlivened now by the sight of a bird.
"One Maid's Mischief"
George Manville Fenn