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She looked so unspeakable in that attitude that the cabman felt called upon to offer a little professional advice: "She needs a checkrein," he declared, "an' she needs it bad," a remark which so incensed Patrolman McDonogh that Sedyard decided to explain: "Just disperse those people, will you," said he, "I want to talk to you."
Her small library skimmed the cream of the insurgents and revolutionaries of genius; and here the shy and reticent schoolgirl with the mark of the churchly checkrein fresh upon her, was free to browse, for her cousin had no slightest notion of playing censor. Mrs. Baker thought that the sooner one was allowed to slough off the gaucheries of the Young Person, the better.
In every function of the body there are opposing groups of forces; for every dilator there is a contractor, for every accelerator of action there is inhibition. Nature drives by two reins, and one is a checkrein. This function of inhibition, then, delays, retards or prevents an action and is in one sense a higher function than the response to stimulation.
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