With tact equal to her own, he set himself to meet the situation, seconded all her efforts to make their awkward meals natural and easy, silenced Mrs. Mac's gaping curiosity, and managed, in doing it all, to keep himself well in the background.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The letter dropped from her shaking fingers, and she raised her eyes to his with a look so hopeless, shamed, and grief-stricken, that he shrank back and winced as if he had seen a gaping wound.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
The dwellings of Davy's Bend were built upon hills sloping toward the little valley where the business houses were, and which poured a flood of water and mud into the long streets in rainy weather through gaping gullies of yellow clay.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe