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The bearing of their extra clothing in this tropical heat was an effort, and they were all glad to find shelter beneath the huge-limbed trees at the foot of the slope. There they lay in the shade and discussed the direction they should travel from this point.
Oh, I said, it had so much WOMAN in it, MULIEBRITY, as well as FEMINEITY; no self-assertion, such as free suffrage introduces into every word and movement; large, vigorous nature, running back to those huge-limbed Germans of Tacitus, but subdued by the reverential training and tuned by the kindly culture of fifty generations.
Their distant intention no doubt was to dash right at the old Wolf; but his fearless front, his sinewy frame and death-dealing jaws, awed them long before they were near him, and they also joined the ring, while the desperado in the middle faced this way and that, ready for any or all. Now the Danes came up, huge-limbed creatures, any one of them as heavy as the Wolf.
I will sing the God of the two mighty wings. Hosanna to life! Hosanna to death! "Christofori faciem die quacunque tueris, Illa nempe die non morte mala morieris." Saint Christophe has crossed the river. All night long he has marched against the stream. Like a rock his huge-limbed body stands above the water. On his shoulders is the Child, frail and heavy.
He was a tall, huge-limbed youth, with a frame of gigantic mold, and a large, blonde, shaggy head, like that of some good-natured antediluvian animal, which might feel the disadvantages of its size amid the puny beings of this later stage of creation.
The huge-limbed boy rose without a word, gravely saluted and left the room. Greif was his idol, the type which he aspired to imitate, and he obeyed him like a lamb. 'So Rex means to fight, remarked one of the young men, who sat opposite to Greif. 'Was he ever in a Korps? 'Possibly, answered the chief.
Marshall studied him, racking his memory for a name. Presently he turned to his wife. "What was Billy's partner's name the miner? I've forgotten." "A Mr. Summers, I believe. Yes, I'm sure. Jack Summers, Billy called him in his letters." "Just a minute," said the doctor, turning to Overland, who sat, huge-limbed, smiling, red-visaged, happy. "Pardon me. You said Mr. Jack Summers, I believe?
The stalwart, huge-limbed, toil-inured men sank down earliest on the march, yielded soonest to malarial influences, and fell first under the combined effects of home-sickness, exposure and the privations of army life. The slender, withy boys, as supple and weak as cats, had apparently the nine lives of those animals.
Oh, I said, it had so much woman in it, muliebrity, as well as femineity; no self-assertion, such as free suffrage introduces into every word and movement; large, vigorous nature, running back to those huge-limbed Germans of Tacitus, but subdued by the reverential training and tuned by the kindly culture of fifty generations.
But the King, though his eyes dilated with amazement, stood his ground and grunted angrily. A moment more and another tree, huge-limbed and dense, came down across the other runway. Two more followed, and the herd was cut off from its retreat.
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