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Bertram approached, grinning; he wore a swagger like that of a little boy who has just turned a series of somersaults before the little girls. Eleanor noticed this. Faintly and in spite of the gratitude she owed him for turning a neighborly service into a heroic deed she resented it. Also, Dynamo and Mr. Chester, between them, had wholly ruined a good prune tree in the prime of bearing.
'I say, he said, 'you don't mind my telling you but mother's very particular about manners at table; but the clown relieved him instantly by saying that so was he very particular; and he slid down the banisters and turned somersaults in the hall until Tommy joined him. 'I do hope father and mother won't be unkind to him, he thought, as he went in, 'because he does seem to feel things so.
They watched the chimpanzees in the new apes' house, and admired the gentle humanity of their eyes "so much more human than human beings" and they watched the Agile Gibbon in the next apartment doing wonderful leaps and aerial somersaults. "I wonder which of us enjoys that most," said Capes "does he, or do we?" "He seems to get a zest " "He does it and forgets it. We remember it.
While Leonard was taking aim, the bear rolled rapidly down the steep incline by means of a series of clever somersaults and rushed upon Leonard with a sort of swift shamble. And a cursed bad manoeuvre it is, I can tell you.
Ducks flew up noisily from the pond, scared by our unexpected appearance in their domains, shots sounded at once after them; it was a pleasant sight to see these short-tailed game turning somersaults in the air, splashing heavily into the water.
The little robber girl put her arm round Gerda's neck and went to sleep with the knife in her other hand, and she was soon snoring. But Gerda would not close her eyes; she did not know whether she was to live or to die. The robbers sat round the fire, eating and drinking, and the old woman was turning somersaults. This sight terrified the poor little girl.
They finally reached the bottom of the basin, where the change in the descent made them turn involuntary somersaults, while their loads flew off in every direction. I was relieved when I saw the men getting up again. One of them staggered, and fell back a second time as if dead. Hastening over the slippery rocks, and then down over loose stones, I reached the pass.
It is very bad form either to bend the knees or to strike on the stomach, the latter being a kind of dive for which boys have a very expressive though not elegant name. Somersaults and back dives from a stationary take-off or from a spring-board are very easily learned.
As I spoke the great fragment of rock loosely embedded in earth on the mountain side gave way with a crash, and came tumbling majestically down on the top of the scrub. As for F , he described a series of somersaults in the air, which however agreeable in themselves, were very trying to the nerves of the spectatrix below.
On the contrary, I have wrestled with them for years, and remember well the joy I felt when first the true historical meaning of the opening of the Fourth Gospel, “In the beginning was the word,” became clear to me. It is true that I turned no somersaults like the Horseherd, but I was well satisfied.
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