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Updated: April 30, 2025
"Of all the cants that are canted in this canting world," wrote Sterne, "kind Heaven defend me from the cant of Art!"
A telescope stood in the yard, with its huge barrel canted up toward the lustrous evening star. The long porch of the hotel was populous with tourists, who sat in shawls and wraps under the vast overshadowing bulk of Mont Blanc, and gossiped or meditated.
Old Sam made sure of the barrow by sitting down upon the edge, and would have been canted over by Harry, only he expected, and very naturally, that it would make the poor old man cross. "Now, Sam, what is it?" said Harry. "Come, look sharp." "Ah," said Sam, "I've a good mind not to tell you. You don't deserve it, you know."
He tilted the elevator, and rose. But, as he was volplaning, this cut down the speed, and from a height of ten feet above a field the machine dropped to the ground with a flat plop. Something gave way but Carl sat safe, with the machine canted to one side. He climbed out, cold about the spine, and discovered that he had broken one wheel of the landing-chassis.
Well, we had the boat about ready to be launched, when this man sang out pretty shrill: "For God's sake, hold on!" We knew by his tone that it was something more than ordinary; and sure enough, there followed a sea so huge that it lifted the brig right up and canted her over on her beam.
One morning, when the sea ran very high, he seduced her aloft, and drew her attention to an object at some distance from the yard-arm; her attention being fixed, he all of a sudden applied his paw to her rear, and canted her into the sea, where she fell a victim to his cruelty. This seemed to afford him high gratification, for he descended in great spirits."
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! I would go fifty miles on foot, for I have not a horse worth riding on, to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his author's hands be pleased he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.
Maciek stood in fear of many things, but most of all he feared the overturning of a sledge or cart, and being crushed underneath. When they were out of the wood the track became worse and worse. The rough-hewn runners constantly sank into snow-drifts and the sledge canted over, so that the poor man, trembling with fear and cold, had to prop it up with all his strength.
But no, not I; I never canted. Voltaire might have canted if he'd stood in my shoes; but the brains" with a rattling fillip on his bald head "the brains were clear and active, and I saw and made no deductions." "If you know this doctor," I ventured to remark, after a somewhat awful pause, "I should gather that you do not share the landlord's good opinion." Fettes paid no regard to me.
Through the clear water they could distinctly see her two masts standing while her shattered sails lay thick and tangled through the rigging. Next morning the schooner was taken out and anchored close by and Paul descended to the wreck. As he struck the bottom a few feet from her, he found her heavily canted to star-board.
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