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It is exactly by these two classes of persons that the objection is raised that the entrance of woman into the new fields of labour and her increased freedom and intelligence will dislocate the relations of the sexes; and, while from the purely personal standpoint, they are undoubtedly right, viewing human society as a whole they are fundamentally wrong.
His words seemed to strike my very heart. I knew what it would be to die of hunger. "I can play the violin, and I can dislocate," said Mattia breathlessly. "I can dance on the tight rope, I can sing, I'll do anything you like. I'll be your servant; I'll obey you. I don't ask for money; food only. And if I do badly, you can beat me, that is understood.
I persevered however for some days until the north-westerly wind, which was blowing softly all the time, began to lay bare the sharpest points of the rocks, and then I gave in at once, and would not be a "passenger" any more. It was rather too much to strike one's head against a jagged fragment of rock, or to dislocate one's thumb against a concealed stump of a palm tree.
One should salute a gentleman in yawning, salute him in hiccuping, salute him in sneezing, salute him in coughing, and that evidently because of your interest in his health; for he may dislocate his jaw in yawning, and the hiccup is often a symptom of grave disorder, and sneezing is perilous to the small blood-vessels of the head, and coughing is either a tracheal, bronchial, pulmonary, or ganglionic affection."
He photographed it from every point of the compass, and made a magnificent effort to dislocate his collarbone by falling from a tree up which Holman had urged him to climb so that he could get a view of the upper surface.
Then there were tongues. One could always dislocate a tongue. At any rate, the boots of one of the three were always needing attention. "Bless me!" our governess would exclaim, wrathfully, "Another heel off! One would think you did it purposely. And boots such a price!
The truth is that, just as in the other imitative arts one imitation is always of one thing, so in poetry the story, as an imitation of action, must represent one action, a complete whole, with its several incidents so closely connected that the transposal or withdrawal of any one of them will disjoin and dislocate the whole.
It's going to destroy the Proportions of Things. It's going to dislocate What isn't it going to dislocate?" "Whatever it dislocates," said Redwood, "my little boy must have the Food." They heard some one falling rapidly upstairs. Then Cossar put his head into the fiat. "Hullo!" he said at their expressions, and entering, "Well?" They told him about the Princess. "Difficult question!" he remarked.
"Guess I'll turn in, if you fellows are going to sit up much longer." "Good idea, Tom," commented Ralph, looking up from the letter he was writing. "You've been making a holy show of yourself for the last half hour, and I've been expecting every minute to see you dislocate your jaw." "It's being out in this air all day and doing such a lot of manual labor," said Tom, as he staggered to his feet.
Come, Collisson, any three angles of a triangle are equal to are equal to what are they equal to?" Here he yawned as though he would dislocate his jaw. "Any three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles," said Collisson, in the usual sing-song tone of a freshman.
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