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For a few moments Enna was content to hold the doll quietly in her arms, rocking backwards and forwards, singing to it; but ere long she laid it down on her lap, and began fastening and unfastening its clothes, pulling off its shoes and stockings to look at its feet dropping them on the floor, and stooping to pick them up again, at the same time holding the doll in such a careless manner that Elsie expected every instant to see it scattered in fragments on the floor.
Her eyes blurred so with emotion that she did not see the rocking branches in the rain. All the hardness of her face melted, under those melting cadences into exultant maternity: "Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine; The thirst that from the soul " She smiled, then turned and knocked peremptorily at her son's door.
And as the White Rocking Horse and the Sawdust Doll were talking together at the head of the stairs the two bad men made their way into the house by unlocking the front door with a false key one of them carried. "Hush! Don't make a noise!" said the big burglar. "No, we must be very quiet," said the little burglar.
STABILITY AND STABILIZATION. These terms constantly appear in describing machines and their operations. If the flying structure, whatever it may be, has means whereby it is kept from rocking from side to side, it has stability, which is usually designated as lateral stability. The mechanism for doing this is called a stabilizer.
Bannerworth covered her face with her hands, and, after rocking to and fro for a moment, she fell off her chair, having fainted with the excess of terror that came over her. For about the space of time in which a fast speaker could count twelve, Flora thought her reason was leaving her, but it did not.
This time, he reared up, using his two rear pairs of limbs for locomotion, while the two forward pair were held out, ready to kill. He got surprise number two when Stanton's fist landed on his snout, rocking his head back. His own hands met nothing but air, and by the time he had recovered from the blow, Stanton was well back, out of the way. He's so small! Stanton thought wonderingly.
The grooms sprang away, the powerful bays reared, once, twice, and then, with a thunder of hoofs, started away at a gallop that set the light vehicle rocking and swaying, yet which in no whit seemed to trouble Milo of Crotona, who sat upon his perch behind with folded arms as stiff and steady as a small graven image, until he and the Viscount and the curricle had been whirled into the distance and vanished in a cloud of dust.
Then slowly, implacably hesitant, ponderous but determined, the huge bus backed along the track it had so cruelly worn in the sward out through the gap in the fair fence, over the side-walk and into the road, rocking perilously, but settling level at last.
Swiggs increases the velocity of her rocking, lays her right hand on the table, rests her left on her Milton, and continues to reiterate that he has got into the wrong house. "I have no letter, Madam " "I never receive people without letters never!" again she interrupts, testily. "But you see, Madam " "No I don't.
''Ow did any of us know what yer'd got in your box? Did yer ever show it to me, or Mary Anne there, or any livin soul in Clinton? Did yer? She waited, hawk-like, for the answer. 'Did yer, John? repeated Saunders, judicially. John groaned, rocking himself to and fro. 'Noa. I niver did I niver did, he said.
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