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For instance, our long restriction to house-limits, the heavy limitations of our clothing, and the heavier ones of traditional decorum, have made women disproportionately short-legged. This is a particularly undignified and injurious characteristic, bred in women and inherited by men, most seen among those races which keep their women most closely.
In making the statement that they were, we are always apt to be misled by omitting two considerations of no light weight. The first is, that we draw our information and statistics now from a vastly wider area than in the "good old times," and hence that our figures relating to crime and disease always appear disproportionately large.
Air, close and heavy, without a breath to wake the slumbering trees; an oppressive stillness, in which small sounds magnified themselves, and seemed disproportionately loud.
He was over six feet in height, with shoulders disproportionately broad, close shaved, with black moustaches, and wearing a sealskin great-coat." There, gentlemen, our fortune, if not made, is founded. 'Do you then propose, dear boy, that we should turn detectives? inquired Challoner. 'Do I propose it? No, sir, cried Somerset.
"Him, too!" she said aloud. She nodded at her reflected self, but her face was grave; for between these two, small, blue-robed figures was a deep and unsuspected secret. And Maurice, as he walked away, wondered to himself for still a little why she should have been so disproportionately angry; but not for long; for, when he was not actually with Ephie, he was not given to thinking much about her.
Sometimes it is stained yellow, purple, red, green, or striped with various colors; sometimes it is crowned with paste-work, representing, in a most primitive way, a hen, her body being the egg, and her pastry-head adorned with a disproportionately tall feather.
It seemed disproportionately large for the schooner; but when I saw that the crew amounted to between thirty and forty men, I concluded that this boat was held in reserve in case of any accident compelling the crew to desert the vessel. As I have before said, the costumes of the men were similar to that of the captain.
As regards the structure of the work looked at as a whole, it strikes us as a decided fault, that the Saga of King Olaf is so disproportionately long, especially as many of the pieces which compose it are by no means so well done as the more strictly original ones.
The pigs were sold last week." I realized that I was being invited to enter the actual home, the private sleeping room, of the departed swine. The door of it had been newly painted. Ditto. Underneath this inscription was a carefully executed drawing of a spear with a large, a disproportionately large, and vicious looking barb.
She had been awake at the early hour of deadly pale dawn when a swift, long-barreled car had drawn up under the porte-cochère and Arnold had been taken away under the guard of a short, broad, brawny man with disproportionately long arms. She was not able to swallow a mouthful of breakfast. During the night, she had not looked an inch beyond her blind passion of insistence.
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