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The snowstorm, directly in our teeth, increased in force with every mile we traveled, and with the continued cramps and pains in my legs it seemed to me that the misery of it all was about as refined and complete as it could be.
"I want a certificate." "Of what?" "Ill health. Nobody believes I had the smallpox." "You didn't." "Wh-what?" Tom's eyes opened wide. He stared at the girl in hurt surprise. "It was nothing but pimples, Tom." "Pimples!" He spat the word out indignantly, and his round cheeks grew purple. "I I s'pose pimples gave me cramps and chills and backache and palpitation and swellings! Hunh!
Quickly I made a decision and with the same abruptness I had used in urging Molly to draw before the too attractive shop in Bern, I begged her now to stop. My white elephants were stowed away in separate bundles in the tonneau, where, ever since Lucerne, they had been the cause of cramps and "pins and needles" to the feet of any member of the party who sat there.
He was not at all surprised when he saw in the group the familiar face of Deacon Cramps and Reverend Bonds. And he observed from certain parts of their masks which they still had on that these two men were the fellows who took the leading part in the affair at the camp. Jake recognized that the group was made up mostly of men who were prominent members of Mount Olivet church.
"Oh, he a'n't lame! it's nothing but the cramps from stowing. You know, of course, they are more or less stiff. He's as sound as a nut." "Don't much like to buy relations, on account of their hatching up mischief together," said Mr. Scroggs. "Oh, that's all humbug! You must keep 'em from coming together, anyway. It's about as broad as 'tis long.
"He searched us out where we lay trussed like fowls, all bound with ropes. We blundered fair into the camp last night, and old Trimble Rogers here, his legs knotted with cramps, couldn't make a run for it. They saved us for Blackbeard's pleasure but he had other fish to fry." "What then?" demanded Jack. "'Twas Joe Hawkridge that ran to cut our bonds when the fight began.
Lieutenant Knapp, who had imprudently indulged in frozen chestnuts on the mountain-side, was attacked with violent cramps, and kept the household below stairs in commotion all night humanely endeavoring to assuage his agony.
Although either the positive or the negative pole, applied to the healthy muscle, may produce spasmodic contraction, yet the negative pole contracts much more powerfully than the positive a fact which shows an electrically plus condition in the nerves and muscles involved. Yet we know that cramps are more apt to attend a low condition of general vitality in the system than the opposite.
We perhaps do ourselves an injustice when we think that the heart of us is sordid; what is sordid is rather the situation that cramps or stifles the heart. In itself our generative principle is surely no less fertile and generous than the generative principle of crystals or flowers.
James having seen that this part of the operation has proceeded satisfactorily, places the table away to dry, and when so, the cramps are removed and the table examined by the chief. All being assumed to be satisfactory, James is told to go on with the shaping down of the bar, which is done with a chisel held with the bevel downwards, this being safer and less likely to slip.
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