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Updated: May 9, 2025
Tess looked down again, and carefully abstained from gazing in that direction. Thus the afternoon dragged on. The wheat-rick shrank lower, and the straw-rick grew higher, and the corn-sacks were carted away. At six o'clock the wheat-rick was about shoulder-high from the ground.
Ellen Mary, a gaunt, tall, somewhat untidy woman, stood at the narrow door of the little shed off the Ailesworth pavilion; with one hand, shoulder-high, she steadied herself against the door frame, with the other she continually pushed forward the rusty bonnet which had been loosened during her walk by the equinoctial gale that now tore at the door of the shed, and necessitated the employment of a wary foot to keep the door from slamming.
He drank hard that night from the bottle which Fat Joe, in obedience to Steve's command, had left standing upon the shoulder-high shelf drank first in a self-conscious fashion with a mumbled excuse to Joe that the rainfall had chilled him; then more and more openly, until he forgot that he had ever felt the need of an excuse.
They went on down the windy pasture slope in silence; the mullein candles blossomed shoulder-high, and from underfoot came the warm, aromatic scent of sweet-fern. Once they stopped for some more blueberries, with a desultory word about the heat; then they picked their way around juniper-bushes, and over great knees of granite, hot and slippery, and through low, sweet thickets of bay.
There are warehouses in this city where it is possible for a person to walk ankle-deep literally to wade in bright-plumaged bird-skins, and see them piled shoulder-high on either side of him a sight to make the angels weep! Not the angel called woman.
Certainly, unlike most cats, they did not mind getting their feet wet, for they crossed the stream four times. At last the twining paths in the shoulder-high grass fanned out separately. We counted. "You were right, Mavrouki," said I, "there were eight." At the end of each path was a beaten-down little space where evidently the beasts had been lying down.
Imagine in the centre of one of these groups a wicked, menacing gun a five-inch breechloader, its long, lean barrel raised shoulder-high upon the apex of a conical gun-mount, near the base of which are significant wooden cases, some empty and others filled with elongated, formidable cartridges; and pails of black, dirty water ascum with powder; and other objects each significant of war.
Drawing still nearer, he prepares to crawl up; his hand touches the top; it is less than shoulder-high. But perhaps the strongest illustration of the differing densities of these two media is furnished by an attempt to drive a nail under water. By an absolute law such an effort, if guided by sight independent of calculation, must fail.
After a dozen steps she came to a steep-sided, narrow chasm giving passageway not six feet wide which twisted this way and that before her. "Look out," called Norton sharply. "Watch where you step now. Go slow." Virginia swinging her lantern up shoulder-high, looking ahead, grew instantly stock-still, a shiver tingling along her spine.
The coffin, borne shoulder-high, comes along the street, followed by a long line of figures, enveloped from head to foot in black serge gowns, with holes for the eyes. They march along, carrying large black crosses and tallow candles, and using their voices in something which is betwixt a chant and a howl. The sight suggests only the most dismal associations.
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