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Katya straightens her hair, puts on her hat, then crumples up the letters and stuffs them in her bag and all this deliberately, in silence. Her face, her bosom, and her gloves are wet with tears, but her expression now is cold and forbidding.... I look at her, and feel ashamed that I am happier than she.
This muscle, when it shortens, straightens or extends the limb, or lifts the foot from the ground and swings it forward as in walking, or raises the knee up toward the body when we are sitting or lying down.
"Or when the girl fell out of the tree," added Mollie. "Gracious! Those were tragic times enough!" broke in Grace. "But we enjoyed them after they were over," added Betty. "And I think we shall enjoy finding well, finding what we did find, after Allen straightens it out for us." "Oh, is he going to straighten it out for us?" asked Mollie. "Well, isn't he working hard on it?" Betty wanted to know.
To accomplish the sword-swallowing feat, it is only necessary to overcome the nausea that results from the metal's touching the mucous membrane of the pharynx, for there is an unobstructed passage, large enough to accommodate several of the thin blades used, from the mouth to the bottom of the stomach. This passage is not straight, but the passing of the sword straightens it.
Even Sally, in her own gentle way, could declare war. The perfect curve of her upper lip grew thin as she said it, like a bow that straightens itself after the arrow has sped. Traill cast a swift glance at her, comprehending that there lay some meaning behind her words, yet knowing nothing of the duel that was being fought under his very eyes. Mrs. Durlacher smiled.
When rubbed, it curves and subsequently straightens itself; and it can, as is shown in the drawing, securely clasp a support. I have seen an object as soft as a young vine-leaf caught by one.
Providence intervenes, and with a decisive stroke straightens matters out for us. After all, it is ridiculous wasting so much time and energy in rough-hewing our ends, when the shaping lies with other hands than ours. On this day of days Providence appeared in the guise of Dr. Wentworth De Breen. His buggy drew up at the curb beside me. "Hullo!" was his gruff salutation.
And as I loosens my hold he straightens up, only to get the full benefit of that placid, ladylike lookover. "Ahr-r-r chee!" says he, glancin' disgusted at me. Then he starts gettin' rosy in the ears, like he always does when there's fluffs around, and after one more hasty look he bolts back into the gym.
But one must shoot at this creature once, if he wishes to see him throw his heart into his heels, and do the best he knows how. He is frightened clear through, now, and he lays his long ears down on his back, straightens himself out like a yard-stick every spring he makes, and scatters miles behind him with an easy indifference that is enchanting.
"How it straightens things out and blows away one's vapours anything that's done!" said Nick; while his companion exclaimed blandly and affectionately: "The dear old thing!" "The great point's to do something, instead of muddling and questioning; and, by Jove, it makes me want to!" "Want to build a cathedral?" Nash inquired. "Yes, just that." "It's you who puzzle me then, my dear fellow.
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