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At the third, the mist which enveloped Whernside began, as it seemed to him, to flow downwards from the sky in long wreaths of smoke-mingled steam which in a few moments fell away into nothingness. A blaze of sunlight burst out from above the earth had vanished and there was nothing visible save the sun and sky overhead, and an apparently illimitable expanse of cloud underneath.
Pull the root upwards, my good man . . . what's your name? Upwards, not downwards, you brute! Don't swing your legs!" Five minutes pass, ten. . . . The master loses all patience. "Vassily!" he shouts, turning towards the garden. "Vaska! Call Vassily to me!" The coachman Vassily runs up. He is chewing something and breathing hard. "Go into the water," the master orders him.
How could he call by the name of delight this hard, interminable, sucking pressure when it sent agony downwards from her mouth to the furthest cell of her body, changing her bones so that ever after they would be more brittle, her flesh so that it would be more subject to bruises!
These branches stretched out for many yards at first horizontally, but as they tapered towards a point, they began gradually to curve downwards, until their extreme ends the topmost twigs with their leaves quite touched the earth. It was for this reason we had not been able to see the main trunk as we approached.
By this time the Yamassees, with their confederates, had spread destruction though the parish of St. Bartholomew, and advancing downwards as far as Stono, they burned the church at that place, together with every house on the plantations by the way. John Cochran, his wife, and four children; Mr.
And the Ten-headed Ravana, supporting life by means of air alone and surrounded by the five sacred fires and absorbed in meditation, remained standing on one leg for a thousand years. And Kumvakarna with head downwards, and with restricted diet, was constant in austerities.
The sailors were now fairly baffled, and still more so when the expert rogue chose to climb a little higher, and then to walk deliberately along the standing part of the main-topsail brace to the mizen-topmast head; whence, as if to divert himself, or force his pursuers to mingle admiration with their rage, he made a flying leap downwards to the peak haulyards, scampering along the single part till he reached the end of the gaff.
The Count thus describes what happens when a competent person, armed with a hazel fork, walks over these exciting districts. If the motion continue, the rod, descending, becomes vertical with the angle downwards. Finally, the rod may again ascend and reassume its first horizontal position, having thus completed a revolution.
Delia could still feel herself held, wriggling and shrieking face downwards, under the young man's strong arm, unable either to kick or to scratch, while Grandmamma half fearful, half laughing, watched the dire ascent from the bottom of the stairs. "Male tyranny my first taste of it!" thought Delia, smiling at herself. "It was fated then that I should be a militant."
There he sat in his chair in the old half-furnished room, which he proposed to turn into his dining-room, and groaned in spirit over this portentous discovery. What had become of his fair prospect of quiet years sloping gently downwards, and warm with the sweet drowsy light of afternoon? How was it that he had not known those things that belonged to his peace? And probably it would end in nothing.
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