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I find that he always stands on his left leg, which is like an iron gate-post, and props himself with his right. I cannot discover whether he straightens out when he goes home at night, but when visible in the daytime, he is always bowed, either under the weight of his mussuk or the recollection of it.
These varieties are lost sight of when seen at a little distance, at a little height of thought. One tendency unites them all. The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. This is only microscopic criticism. See the line from a sufficient distance, and it straightens itself to the average tendency.
Here sits the noted divine in search of recreation, and, incidentally, material for future sermonic use; a prominent physician, glad to escape for a season the complaining ills, real or imaginary, of his many patients; a judge, whose benign expression, as he straightens the leaders in his flybook, or carefully wipes the moisture from his split bamboo rod, suggests nothing of justice dispensed with an iron hand; and Emanuel, our Mexican guide, who contentedly inhales the smoke from his cigarette as he lounges in the warmth of the blazing camp fire, dreaming of his señorita.
'Isn't it a lovely night, she said, in order to say something. 'Do you like sitting in the dark? It's very restful, isn't it? Franklin saw the alien Miss Buchanan's eyes bent kindly and observantly upon him. 'Yes, it's very restful, he said. 'It smooths you out and straightens you out when you get crumpled, you know, and impatient.
Buying a new hat or tie straightens a man out. Come on!" He laughed suddenly. "This artist's name is Tony. He's an old man seventy years old." They entered the street, Lockwood watching his companion with dark, fixed eyes as if he were slowly arriving at some impersonal diagnosis. "A lot of fools," he announced abruptly, waving his hand at the crowds.
The eye flashes. The cheeks turn crimson. The form straightens. The orator weeps and he thunders. "Hi hi!" says the hungry saloon-keeper, in sudden admiration. "America! My fellow-countrymen, it is the palm of the desert the rock of liberty.
He straightens his legs, sinks his chin and pushes his hands far in his pockets. "Before I begin," says Corkey, "let me tell ye, that if you're sick I'd keep off the decks. You have a gold watch. Some one might nail ye." "Is that so?" asks Lockwin, his thoughts far away. "He beats me!" comments the contestant. "Well, pard, if you're not sick, I'd like to say a good many things.
"Three," replies the man, wondering. "Well, six bits, then," says Texas Pete, "cash down." At that the man straightens up a little. "I ain't askin' for no water for my stock," says he, "but my wife and baby has been out in this sun all day without a drop of water. Our cask slipped a hoop and bust just this side of Dos Cabesas. The poor kid is plumb dry." "Two bits a head," says Texas Pete.
You took at once into the bosom of another Socrates my tender years; your rule, applied with skillful disguise, straightens each perverse habit; nature is molded by reason, and struggles to be subdued, and assumes under your hands its plastic lineaments. Ay, well I mind how I would wear away long summer suns with you, and pluck with you the bloom of night's first hours.
They strike the water with great force, and so send the Prawn or Shrimp quickly backwards. As the body becomes straight again, the fan closes, ready for another stroke. To move quickly, the Shrimp or Prawn merely bends his body, then straightens it. The tail thus becomes a strong oar, driving him backwards with rapid jerks. Look now at the Prawn's long, hair-like feelers. There are two pairs.
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