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She resisted the stable for some time, but after carefully examining it with her hoofs and an affectedly meek outstretching of her nose, she consented to recognize some oats in the feed-box without looking at them and was formally installed. All this while she had resolutely ignored my presence. As I stood watching her, she suddenly stopped eating; the same reflective look came over her.
Smiling, she extended her hand but not to be touched. It was a little wave, a little imitation of my own impulsive outstretching to a friend; then her eyes went to the next person, and I was on my way, having been presented at court and done what "is not done" in England. Tom's mission in England was important.
She then led him from the boat, up a flight of steps, and through a garden for he occasionally came in contact with the outstretching branches of shrubs, and there was moreover a delicious odor of flowers, as he proceeded in the total darkness of his blindfolding. At the expiration of ten minutes the guide stopped; and Alessandro heard a key turn in a lock.
Accordingly, the boats now made for her, and were soon swayed up to their cranes the two parts of the wrecked boat having been previously secured by her and then hoisting everything to her side, and stacking her canvas high up, and sideways outstretching it with stun-sails, like the double-jointed wings of an albatross; the Pequod bore down in the leeward wake of Moby Dick.
This work is one in which the question of heroism and nobility is scientifically treated, and in the most rigid manner, 'by line and level, and through that representative form in which the historical pretence of it is tried, through that scientific negation, with its merely instinctive, vulgar, unlearned ambition with its monstrous 'outstretching' on the one hand, and its dwarfish limitations on the other, through all that finely drawn, historic picture of that which claims the human subjection, the clear scientific lines of the true ideal type are visible, the outline of the true nobility and government is visible, towering above that detected insufficiency, into the perfection of the human form, into the heaven of the true divineness, into the chair of the perpetual dictatorship, into the consulship whose year revolves not, whose year is the state.
But as for this affection that is tried here now, that the diagram of this scene exhibits so tangibly, 'as it were, to the eye, this poor and private passion, that sits here, with its imperial crown on its head, in the place of God, but lacking His 'mercy, this passion of the petty man, that has made itself so hugely visible with its monstrous outstretching, that lies stretched out and glittering on these hills, with its dragon coils unwound, with its deadly fangs those little fangs, that crush our private hearts, and torture and rend our daily lives exposed in this great solar microscope, striking the common-weal, as for this petty, usurping passion, there is a spectacle approaching that will undo it.
But Odysseus bestrode a single beam, as one rideth on a courser, and stript him of the garments which fair Calypso gave him. And presently he wound the veil beneath his breast, and fell prone into the sea, outstretching his hands as one eager to swim. And the lord, the shaker of the earth, saw him and shook his head, and communed with his own soul.
Thrice had Achilles whirled Hector round the walls of Troy, and was selling the lifeless body for gold; then at last he heaves a loud and heart-deep groan, as the spoils, as the chariot, as the dear body met his gaze, and Priam outstretching unarmed hands. Himself too he knew joining battle with the foremost Achaeans, knew the Eastern ranks and swart Memnon's armour.
At the back of the cold downstairs room a fire has been lighted. Mame is sitting on the stool beside it, in the glow of the flaming coal, outstretching her hands, clinging to the warmth. Entering, I see the bowl of her back. Her lean neck has a cracked look and is white as a bone. Musingly, my aunt takes and holds a pair of idle tongs. I take my seat.
In his shaded light, outstretching for fifty miles beyond the river, lay, in sombre silence, the mighty swamp, with its wonderful trees of cypress, clothed in moss of gray, long, and festooning from their summits to the earth below, and waving, like banners, in the passing wind. The towering magnolia, in all the pride of foliage and flower, shaded us.
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