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The matrons of the tribes, hags they looked, were preparing the true dejeuner, consisting of sangleh, a sort of gruel, made with millet-meal, boiled over a dull fire of camels' dung. The sangleh was to be eaten, by such of them as could afford it, mixed with goats' or camels' milk, unstrained and hairy, half curdled into a crab-like acidity, the moment it entered its stinking receptacle.
"Wait until they have finished," said the younger man; and Joseph having shouldered the ladder and gone off with it in his own crab-like way, the two stood together until the musicians in the garden had finished the theme upon which they were engaged. The earl pushed open the garden door and entered, Ferdinand following in the rear.
They were sailing low over the deep bay formed by the two huge tentacles that run south and south-east from the crab-like body of the island, when suddenly, above the noise of the engine, they heard the sharp crack of a shot, then two or three more.
Can I never tell my story in a plain, straightforward way? Certainly I was born under Cancer, and all my movements are circumlocutory, sideways, and crab-like. Their wages are but a small item, my clear Roland." "Hem!" said Roland; "since we can't do with fewer servants at less wages, I suppose we must call it small." "It is so," said my mother, with mild positiveness.
The attraction of mechanical power had already wrenched the American mind into a crab-like process which Roosevelt was making heroic efforts to restore to even action, and he had every right to active support and sympathy from all the world, especially from the Trusts themselves so far as they were human; but the doubt persisted whether the force that educated was really man or nature mind or motion.
Sometimes the shallows are thickened with minute, transparent, crab-like organisms, all colorless as gelatine.
She reached out her hand and, to George's extreme astonishment, a little door swung open, revealing the foot of a winding staircase. Turning sideways in order to get her tray through the narrow opening, the little maid darted in with a rapid crab-like motion. The door closed behind her with a click.
Mr Waller's views on temperance were forgotten in an instant. The audience surged round Mike and his opponent. The latter had scrambled to his feet now, and was looking round for his assailant. 'That's 'im, Bill! cried eager voices, indicating Mike. ''E's the bloke wot 'it yer, Bill, said others, more precise in detail. Bill advanced on Mike in a sidelong, crab-like manner.
But, warm or cold, it was the only haven of refuge for the sinking ship, which slowly, and more slowly still, by reason of the stormy sea and shifting wind, the latter of which grew gustier as the morning advanced, made her laboured way towards the land in crab-like fashion half sailing, half drifting, and burying her bows deeply every now and then in the heavy rollers she was powerless now to ride over, and rising again from the water so sluggishly that it sometimes seemed impossible that she would recover herself, but must founder, whenever she took a deeper plunge than usual.
Tom started off fluently, but it was no part of the policy of the examiners to allow him to waste the fifteen minutes allotted them in expatiating upon what he knew well. They interrupted him after a few sentences. "How does this creature walk?" asked the crab-like one. "By means of long tubes which it projects at pleasure." "How do the tubes enable the creature to walk?"
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