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We then set out on our luvly drive, me on the box-seat of one of the Carridges, and the other pore fellers cramped up hinside.
At home things went from bad to worse; often I was the sole bread-winner, and my few shillings a week were our only income. My brother Solomon grew up, but could not get into a decent situation because he must not work on the Sabbath. Oh, if you knew how young lives are cramped and shipwrecked at the start by this one curse of the Sabbath, you would not wish us to persevere in our isolation.
Indeed, the Germans, who were great rivals of the Italians in those days, not only in matters pertaining to architecture, but to literature also, in the same independent spirit which induced them alone, of all civilized peoples, to retain through all time the cramped, angular letters of monkish transcribers, in preference to the fair and square Roman forms, took particular pride in avoiding horizontal lines entirely at the tops of their towers, as they did at the tops of their letters.
The pale ink, the quaint cramped hand, the old-fashioned abbreviations, and very doubtful orthography rendered the task laborious; but I stuck to my work bravely, and the old clock in the market-place struck two as I began the last letter.
The agony of their cramped position is beyond the power of words to describe. Even in winter, when the temperature drops, as it sometimes does, to sixty degrees below zero, they are given only a single sheepskin for covering.
This being so, there was no further use for my remaining in my cramped position in the closet, and I longed for a chance for escape. It was not long in coming. "I don't see how that boy managed it," said Holtzmann. "He was alone only a few minutes." "Never mind. He's as smart as a steel trap. Was the safe door open?" "Yes. My clerk left it open. He is a new one and rather careless.
In London, where our shops are mostly cramped and old-fashioned, it would be impossible for such large numbers of people to find admittance." The tribute is a very nice one. For a long time the department stores have realized the difficulties under which they labor and have been making efforts to overcome them.
So for half an hour the twins, under Aunt Polly's direction, snipped bread crumbs and suet happily and then busily tied strings to other pieces of fat. "We're going to have company, Norah," explained Dot, opening and shutting her cramped little fingers when the bread and fat were all nicely snipped. "Company, is it?" asked Norah, glad to see Dot had stopped crying.
And yet of the two, the invisible world seemed nearer than the earth roofed over by that placid sky. As time passed his suffering became acute. The weight of the child on his shoulder was an increasing torture. The cramped arm raised to hold her secure was racked by intolerable pain. The chill of the water was paralyzing. His heart labored. His breath came with difficulty.
Our tents made somewhat cramped quarters, especially during meal-times. "Living in a tent without any furniture requires a little getting used to. For our meals we have to sit on the floor, and it is surprising how awkward it is to eat in such a position; it is better by far to kneel and sit back on one's heels, as do the Japanese."
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