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We are inclined to fancy that it does not bend the sturdy frame and stiffen the overwrought muscles, like the labor that is devoted in sad, hard earnest to raise grain for sour bread. Certainly, the sunburnt young men and dark-cheeked, laughing girls, who weeded the rich acres of Monte Beni, might well enough have passed for inhabitants of an unsophisticated Arcadia.
Julian Jones stiffen, although she kept her gaze fixed balefully upon two mud-hens that were prowling along the lagoon shallows below us. "The hussy!" she hissed, once and implacably. Jones had stopped at the sound, but went on immediately.
She would hearken; her little thin body would stiffen, like a dog setting his game, a spark would light in her brown eyes, and how led who can say? she would fly like a wireless message to the thing sought for. So it was now, on the furzy side of Cnocán an Ceoil Sidhe; she knew that the moment had come.
Don't stiffen yourself like that. I can't judge, when you do. Not too much hips neither sides nor back. Fine! Fine! And the thigh slender yes quite lovely, my dear. Thick thighs spoil the hang of garments. Yes yes a splendid figure. I'll bet the bosom is a corker fine skin and nice ladylike size. You can have the place." "What does it pay?" she asked. "Ten dollars, to start with. Splendid wages.
"Yes, of course," he replied; "tell your mother that your torngak no, you haven't got one yet that Ujarak's torngak told him in a vision that a visit to the lands of the far-south would do her good, would remove the pains that sometimes stiffen her joints, and the cough that has troubled her so much. So you will incline her to obey.
The Child longed to warn the little partridge mother, but, realizing that he must not, he waited with thumping heart for a tragedy to be enacted before him. He had no need to worry, however. The little mother saw the fox before he caught sight of her. The Child saw her stiffen herself suddenly, with a low chit of warning which sounded as if it might have come from anywhere.
I have heard it said in England that the British Naval Division was sent to Antwerp "to stiffen the Belgians." That may have been the intention, the coming of the English certainly relieved some and comforted others in the trenches. But in truth the Belgians needed no stiffening. They did everything that any other troops could have done under the same circumstances and more.
"I'll handle her when morning's light is bright, and forgotten is the night!" "I thought I knew my girl, too," the mother declared, gloomily. "But I guess I don't. I never saw her stiffen up like this before. She sat and looked at me, and I felt like a cushion being jabbed by a couple of hatpins if there's any such thing as a cushion having feelings." Mrs.
Ah! but I think you will obey," he added, with that funny dry chuckle of his as Marguerite's whole figure seemed to stiffen, in defiance of this order, "for let me tell you that if you scream, nay! if you utter one sound, or attempt to move from here, my men there are thirty of them about will seize St. Just, de Tournay, and their two friends, and shoot them here by my orders before your eyes."
And in the lean years, which are the seventh years the years of the rabbit plague starvation stalks in the teepees, and gaunt, sunken-eyed forms, dry-lipped, and with the skin drawn tightly over protruding ribs, stiffen between shoddy blankets. For even the philosophers of the land of God and the H.B.C. must eat to live if not this week, at least once next week.
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