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The cramp is a violent exertion to relieve pain, generally either of the skin from cold, or of the bowels, as in some diarrhoeas, or from the muscles having been previously overstretched, as in walking up or down steep hills.
The bell was rung, Bennet was summoned, grandmamma peremptorily ordered her to be undressed, and in another half-hour the cousins were lying side by side, Henrietta's lethargy had become a heavy sleep, Beatrice was broad awake, listening to every sound, forming every possible speculation on the future, and to her own overstretched fancy seeming actually to feel the thoughts chasing each other through her throbbing head.
But perhaps she dared not let herself believe him now: perhaps the strongest wish of her heart was to hurt him as deeply as she could. "To say the least," she said with a little deliberate movement of distaste, "your coincidences are unfortunate. You won't mind if I go on being grateful to the gear?" Under that crowning taunt, his self-restraint snapped like an overstretched bow-string.
Ginevra gradually became with me a sort of heroine. One day, perceiving this growing illusion, I said, "I really believe my nerves are getting overstretched: my mind has suffered somewhat too much a malady is growing upon it what shall I do? How shall I keep well?" Indeed there was no way to keep well under the circumstances.
Clutterbuck, in a sharp, overstretched, querulous falsetto, suited to the occasion: "but this is always the case- -I am sure, my poor temper is tried to the utmost and Lord help thee, idiot! you have thrust those spindle legs of yours into your coat-sleeves instead of your breeches!"
His battered countenance turned redder, as he noted that for the sake of the other she was like an overstretched bow, almost breaking. Then a pang stabbed him treacherously. Fearing that she might discern his misery, he turned back, leaving her limp against the wall. He took to walking the runway of the ramparts, gnawing his fingers and muttering to himself, shaking his tousled hair.
Balderstone's bachelor's meal, and to be rather disgusted than pleaseed with the display upon his own groaning board. "We do these things," he said, "because others do them; but I was bred a plain man at my father's frugal table, and I should like well would my wife and family permit me to return to my sowens and my poor-man-of-mutton." This was a little overstretched.
"With a small retainer, of course, to bind fast. Say oh, a matter of twenty gold angels or so." "Why, blame your confounded overstretched skin!" cried Droop, hotly, "I'd sooner drop the hull darn thing! You must take me fer a nat'ral born fool, I guess!" "Nay, then 'twixt friends," said the knight, soothingly. "'Twixt friends, say we remit one half the profits.
The book went too far, struck the arm of a chair, flew open at the breaking of the overstretched rubber, fell on its side by the chair leg, and disclosed a pile of bank-notes. These, tightly flattened, were the sole contents of the covers. As Larcher's startled eyes rested upon them, he saw that the topmost bill was for five hundred dollars.
Clutterbuck, in a sharp, overstretched, querulous falsetto, suited to the occasion: "but this is always the case I am sure, my poor temper is tried to the utmost and Lord help thee, idiot! you have thrust those spindle legs of yours into your coat-sleeves instead of your breeches!"
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