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Updated: May 16, 2025
"What! That doubled-up crone?" "Ah!" said Almayer. "They age quickly here. And long foggy nights spent in the bush will soon break the strongest backs as you will find out yourself soon." "Dis . . . disgusting," growled the traveller. He dozed off. Almayer stood by the balustrade looking out at the bluish sheen of the moonlit night.
In ancient India, under similar circumstances, the supposed dead man had to pass the first night after his return in a tub filled with a mixture of fat and water; there he sat with doubled-up fists and without uttering a syllable, like a child in the womb, while over him were performed all the sacraments that were wont to be celebrated over a pregnant woman.
And, even as she asked herself the question, the goodly steamer, happening to dip her lowest courtesy to a rude in-coming wave of giant proportions, shipped its combing crest, that poured through the latticed guard-rail and swirled across the deck, with a force, that sent poor Hope a drenched, doubled-up little heap of helplessness, pounding right into the midst of the chair-stack.
It was the first time she had been in the sick room, and on this evening while her mother was busy she had softly stolen away. "Give dis to ittle sick boy," she said. "He like pitty woses." "Come here, dear," Nellie replied, and as the child approached she took the flower, and placed the stem in Dan's doubled-up hand.
I must have slept long and profoundly, for when I woke, pulling myself together with some difficulty, having slept in the form of a doubled-up zigzag, I found it was daylight.
Night by night, from my dry grass bed I beheld Nuflo sitting in his old doubled-up posture, his big brown feet close to the white ashes sitting silent and miserable. I pitied him; I owed him hospitality; but it seemed intolerable that he should be there.
After pausing at a pork-shop, he is jogging eastward like myself, with a benevolent countenance and a watery mouth, as though musing on the many excellences of pork, when he beholds this doubled-up bundle approaching. He stops, pricks his ears higher, makes a slight point, stares, utters a short, low growl, and glistens at the nose, as I conceive with terror.
Once in a while it struck us that this patch bore an uncanny resemblance to a doubled-up human figure, though generally no such kinship existed, and often there was no whitish deposit whatever.
Lastly, and 9thly, in a cliff of the red clayey bed B, there was a double piece, about three feet long and two wide, of the bony armour of a large Dasypoid quadruped, with the two sides pressed nearly close together: as the cliff is now rapidly washing away, this fossil probably was lately much more perfect; from between its doubled-up sides, I extracted the middle and ungual phalanges, united together, of one of the feet, and likewise a separate phalanx: hence one or more of the limbs must have been attached to the dermal case, when it was embedded.
As a paroxysm came on the man was in the habit of gently pressing and holding the arm closely to his body. At one time he endured the attack in a standing posture, walking the floor, but usually he seated himself very near a hot stove, in a doubled-up, cramped position, utterly unmindful of all surroundings, until the worst pain had ceased.
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