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A most lamentable, inconvenient straddling position this one leg in the future, where nothing is to be discerned but the rosy morn and the faces of future children, the other leg still in the middle of Rome, in the Piazza del Popolo, where the entire present century would fain seize the opportunity to advance, and clings to the boot tight enough to pull the leg off!
The Bishop started erect in his long chair, and then sprang up, straddling it as usual. "Where get this?" he asked excitedly. The impassive Chinese bowed once more. "Say come quick. Letter velly important. Letter belong you. No police. My savee you want letter now." He backed away, still bowing. With a sweep of his arm he indicated the dark night outside.
He threw himself into the attitude of a lunging fencer, to reach after his oilskin coat; and afterwards he staggered all over the confined space while he jerked himself into it. Very grave, straddling his legs far apart, and stretching his neck, he started to tie deliberately the strings of his sou'-wester under his chin, with thick fingers that trembled slightly.
Paliser, straddling the bench, put his hat on the piano and looked at Cassy, who had gone to the window. It was not the palaces opposite that she saw. Before her was a broken old man revamped. In his hand was a baton which he brandished demoniacally at an orchestra of his own.
The moose breaks down trees of such a size by placing his big shoulder against it, and curving his powerful neck round it, and then bending it over with his massive head. Then, too, he often rides down small trees, such as birch or poplars, just by straddling his fore legs about them and using his chest to force them over.
Mothers carry the children not on the arm, as our nurses do, but straddling on the hip, and usually supported by a cloth which ties in a knot on the opposite shoulder. This practice I have been told is common in some parts of Wales.
When he rode in among the buildings of the 88 ranch his eyes were gratified by the sight of freckle-faced Bill Allen straddling a cracker-box in front of the bunkhouse and having his hair cut by Rod Rockwell. "That's right," Bill Allen was complaining, "whynell don't you cut off the whole ear while yo're about it?"
He scowled at her as she came. "What do you think you're doing!" he said. "I went to that house to see if the man was dead." "You'd no business to. I told you he was dead." "I wanted to make sure." That evening she had just gone to her room when somebody knocked at her door. McClane stood outside, straddling, his way when he had got something important on hand.
Her attitude was that of one prepared for instant retreat. When she spoke it was in tones of extreme disapproval. "You promised," said the girl, "you would not come to see me." Lathrop, straddling his bicycle, peered anxiously down the road. "This is not a social call," he said. "I'm on duty. Have you seen the Reds?" His tone was brisk and alert, his manner preoccupied.
Forthwith they turned into the street, and the outside passengers having descended, they all commenced straddling, yawning, and stretching their limbs while the guard and porters sorted their luggage. The Yorkshireman having an eye to a bed, speedily had Mr.
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