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As she was going downstairs, with her best bonnet on, her lavender gloves drawn neatly over her hands, and her parasol, which was jointed in the middle and could fold up, tucked under her arm, she trod on a treacherous board which creaked loudly. This was enough. Mrs. Butler popped her head out of the drawing-room door and confronted the little spinster. "Where now, Maria?" she asked.
Its color may be an opaque white, or faintly creamy, or there may be an effect of a filmy sheen over a florid complexion. Little or no hair on the face contributes to the general feminine aspect in the more extreme types. They are often double jointed somewhere, flat footed, knock-kneed.
Both of us are crying, and she says, "I will come to-morrow and tidy up. Till then " We take each other's hand in confused hesitation. A little later there is a scraping at the door, then a timid knock, and a long figure appears. It is Véron who presents himself with an awkward air. His tall and badly jointed body swings like a hanging signboard.
The camp has not suffered from dysentery, typhoid, typhus, nor any other epidemic disease. All prisoners are inoculated against smallpox, typhoid and cholera. The Severely Wounded and those who have lost Limbs. A special quarter of the camp contains 55 men who have lost limbs in the war. They are provided with the most perfect prothesis apparatus, jointed artificial limbs.
Setting her basket down in the shade of some alder-bushes, she swung her feet over the stone ledge of the bridge and prepared to arrange her tackle. To fit the jointed rod into a desirable length was simple enough, and to attach the line with its hook as easy; but there trouble began. "I never thought a thing about bait, and where shall I get it?
So every move we make, these elastic ropes are at work pulling us about and letting us sit down and making us run and jump. We call them muscles. You have perhaps seen jointed dolls. The strings and rubber bands on their joints help to make them move; but the dolls don't act as if they were alive. They have no telephone system to tell their bodies how to move.
To counteract this effect of the change of level, Dr. An additional beam, E, with wire, F, and poise, H, on support, C, were added to the balance, and connected to it by a jointed connecting piece, J. The moment of the structure, E C H, about its center of rotation was made equal to the moment of A C D about the center.
One might think that he went about on unfeeling stalks instead of legs as children walk on stilts, or that a former accident had clipped him off above the knees and that he was now jointed out of wood to a point beyond the biting limit. Or perhaps the clothes he wears beneath the inner mesh and very balbriggan of his attire is of so hard a texture that it turns a tooth.
The sharp-featured, bronzed faces and piercing eyes, the tall, slender, loosely jointed bodies, the quiet, easy, reckless air that seemed to be a part of the men these things would plainly have stamped them as cowboys without the buckled sombreros, the colored scarfs, the high-topped, high-heeled boots with great silver-roweled spurs.
Her birth-day arrived, and her godfather gave her a large jointed doll, which she named Columbine: and this said Columbine proved a sad rival to Cherry; for, from morning to night, the dressing and undressing of Miss Columbine engrossed the whole of her time.
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