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The old stoker had just finished slaking the out-fires, and was putting some blue plates on the table, gravely straightening them. He had grown old, as Polston said, Holmes saw, stooped much, with a low, hacking cough; his coarse clothes were curiously clean: that was to please Lois, of course.
And in the garden Will found Sara stooping over her herb bed, and deeply intent upon her task. The sun was setting now, and threw its ruddy beams upon the sunny corner, and upon the aged face and figure of the old woman. "Well, 'machgen i," she said, straightening herself. "What is it?"
"I shall certainly feel more at home in that wild country if I know Tom Swift is with me, and I will appreciate the help of you and your friends, Mr. Titus, in straightening out the tangles of our drug business." "I'll do all I can for you, Mr. Damon." The three then talked at some length regarding possible plans.
In that position he lay for several minutes. "I guess it's all right," decided Tad, straightening up. "The question is, which way shall I go? I've got to be a long ways from here by daylight or that will be the end of me. It would be just my luck to run right into that gang again."
"Dearest Branwen!" exclaimed the princess, throwing back the old woman's shawl, straightening her up, and hugging her when they were alone, "how long you have been coming! Where have you been? Why have you forsaken me? And I have such quantities of news to tell you but, what has become of your hair?" "I cut it short after I fell into the hands of robbers " "Robbers!" exclaimed the princess.
Hence it opposes the normal growth, and the only manner in which the internodes may adjust themselves to the forces which tend to cause their expansion is by straightening the rope. In doing so they may find the required space, by growing out in an unusual direction, bending their axes and twisting the ribs. To prove the validity of this explanation, a simple experiment may be given.
She did not lie down as Virginia had suggested, but straightening her short skirt, seated herself in an upright chair by the table and crossed her slender feet in their sensible, square-toed shoes.
I'll never take my freedom. If my master would give it to me, and the rest of us, I should be thankful. I am not going to begin stealing, and I fifty years of age." An eye-witness described the straightening of her tall figure, and the indignant flashing of her eye, also the discomfited looks of her northern friends. I have somewhere read of a fable of Iceland.
"Well, well!" she continued, "I'll go and fetch some splinters." She returned in a few moments, with a basket filled with the large splinters thrown off by the woodchoppers in straightening the logs: she piled these up on the andirons, and then, applying her mouth vigorously to a long hollow tin tube, open at both ends, which she carried with her, soon succeeded in starting a steady flame.
"Do you chance to know if madame has any cordials or spirits?" he added, straightening his waistcoat and adjusting his cravat. "It is likely," answered Charley, and moved away to the window looking upon the street. The doctor turned in surprise. He was used to being waited on, and he had expected the tailor to follow the tradition. "We might eh?" he said suggestively.
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