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They were strangely quiet, and when Trask or Locke or Marjorie came in sight, the men were full of covert looks and signals to each other with their hands for caution and whispers. There was a feeling of tension, a sudden stiffening of demeanour once the anchor was down. It was not so much expressed as shown by repression.
Walker was stiffening in every limb. "The children would have the usual chances of their class; neither more nor less, as it seems to me, for lack of a maternal burnt-offering." Mrs. Walker rose, gathered her daughters about her, and came forward to say good-bye. She was sure her husband would be annoyed if she did not return. She retired with nervous precipitation.
With high noon, too, came the summer westerly, screeching and whistling and lashing the Gulf to a brief fury. It was the regular summer wind, a yachtsman's gale. Four days out of six its cycle ran the same, a breeze rising at ten o'clock, stiffening to a healthy blow, a mere sigh at sundown. Midnight would find the sea smooth as a mirror, the heaving swell killed by changing tides.
Perhaps his stiffening lips murmured these words which his mangled hand had written just before the battle: "Death for one's fatherland is ever honorable. How gladly will I die that noble death When my destiny calls!" Yes, death might have been beautiful, but fate is never propitious to German poets.
'Then how do you explain the young lady's disappearance? he asked, after a pause. Manisty laughed. But the note was bitter. 'Father! I shall make her explain it herself. 'She is not alone? 'No my cousin Mrs. Burgoyne is with her. Benecke observed him, appreciated the stiffening of the massive shoulders.
A sudden wind materialized from the north, stiffening the canvas with its ice-laden breath, glazing the schooner wherever moisture dripped, bringing up an angry scud of clouds that fought with the moon. The sea appeared to have thickened. The Karluk went sluggishly, as if she was sailing in a sea of treacle. "Half slush already," said Lund. "We're in for a real cold snap.
It was still day, the sun was high in the heaven, and the heat almost intolerable, beating down upon the dry and glittering sand. I could distinguish no sound near at hand, not even a moan of any kind. The human forms about me were stiffening in death; nor did any skulking Indian figures appear in sight.
At the ranch, the boys were enthusiastically blistering palms and stiffening the muscles of their backs, turning the water away from the ditches that crossed the disputed tracts so that the trespassers there should have none in which to pan gold or to pretend that they were panning gold.
The next advantage we have seen it in many cases was to combine flexibility with support. Besides stiffening the body, it provided a valuable shelter for the spinal cord, and its upper part expanded into a box to enclose the brain. The fins were formed of folds of skin which were thrown off at the sides and on the back, as the animal wriggled through the water.
This one was lying in the long dewy grass on the shady side of the shed. As for rigidity, if Manderson died in a struggle, or laboring under sudden emotion, his corpse might stiffen practically instantaneously: there are dozens of cases noted, particularly in cases of injury to the skull, like this one. On the other hand, the stiffening might not have begun until eight or ten hours after death.
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