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Then when he had balanced it and looked it all over, even as when a man skilled in the lyre and song easily putteth a new string about a peg, even so without an effort Odysseus strung his mighty bow. Taking it in his right hand he tried the string which sang sweetly beneath his touch like to the voice of a swallow.

A little disc of light touched here and there about the room, traveling very swiftly, and in methodical circles. Satisfied by the survey, Garson crossed to the hall door. He moved with alert assurance, lithely balanced on the balls of his feet, noiselessly. At the hall door he listened for any sound of life without, and found none.

"You wish me to tell her that you will wait and pray for my death, and seek to lead her to do likewise," was the angry reply. "It is useless for me to protest against your unjust and bitter words. The trust that I offer to repose in you entitles me to better courtesy." By a great effort Bodine regained self-control, and balanced himself for a few moments on his crutches in deep thought.

Like most limestone formations, Carmel abounds in caves, which are said to be more than 2,000 in number, and are often of great length and extremely tortuous. Carmel, the great southern headland of Phoenicia, is balanced in a certain sense by the extreme northern headland of Casius.

This administration cut more than $7 billion out of spending plans in order to produce a surplus in 1970, and in spite of the fact that Congress reduced revenues by $3 billion, I shall recommend a balanced budget for 1971. But I can assure you that not only to present, but to stay within, a balanced budget requires some very hard decisions.

True, the words were inaudible. It was the intimacy, a sort of spiritual suppleness, when mind prints upon mind indelibly. "Well, you seem to have studied the subject," said Jacob, rising and standing over Simeon's chair. He balanced himself; he swayed a little. He appeared extraordinarily happy, as if his pleasure would brim and spill down the sides if Simeon spoke. Simeon said nothing.

And so they gave us a constitution of balanced powers, of unity with diversity and so clear was their vision that it survives today as the oldest written constitution still in force in the world.

No one reading "Marie of Chinatown" for the first time would believe the author capable of "Across the Sound for a Wife"! The realistic sordidity of the former balanced against the breathless adventure of the latter, combine in stamping Spout as a genius of the highest order.

She picked it up, balanced it against the beam and held it, with a frowning care, until it was secure. "Sign of a death!" she said, as if to herself, but indifferently. "There! you shave you now, an' then I'll bring you out your breakfast an' carry in the things."

Some bowl-shaped basins were made by the melting of a mass of ice left behind by the retreating glacier and buried in its debris. THE STRATIFIED DRIFT. Like modern glaciers the ice sheets of the Pleistocene were ever being converted into water about their margins. Their limits on the land were the lines where their onward flow was just balanced by melting and evaporation.