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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Service, if you please." "Ay, sir!" Dicky's small person stiffened at once, and Dicky's hand went up to the salute. "Wait here, please. I wish a word in private with Lady Vyell if you will forgive me, ma'am?" "Why to be sure, sir," she answered, wondering. As he turned, she walked on with him. After some fifty paces she confronted him under the pale-green dappled shadows of the alley.
He was seized with the convulsions to which he was subject when under any strong excitement, his face was distorted, and his neck was twisted and stiffened in a most frightful manner.
Many men have ability, few have genius, but fewer still have character. Orange has a rectangular will and an indomitable character. Character is the rarest thing in England." Lord Garrow stiffened his back. "I have been educated in a contrary belief," said he. "Our national character is our dearest possession." "That is because it is so rare.
A squirrel's tail, therefore, is something more than ornament, something more than a flag; it not only aids him in flying, but it serves as a cloak, which he wraps about him when he sleeps. In making the flying leap I have described the animals' legs are widely extended, their bodies broadened and flattened, the tail stiffened and slightly curved, and a curious tremulous motion runs through all.
He made a spring at the captain, and would have hurled him, I verily believe, overboard; but at that moment the first mate rushing forward, struck the poor fellow a blow on the back of the head with a handspike. He gave one glance at his murderer as he fell, and in a few minutes his limbs stiffened, and he was dead.
Then he suddenly stiffened his fingers over his breviary, dropped his arms perpendicularly before him, and with a rigid step returned to the corridor and passed into the sacristy. For a moment in the half-darkness the room seemed to be empty. Tossed carelessly in the corner appeared some blankets topped by a few straggling black horsetails, like an unstranded riata.
For Shultz's declaration meant that the guerrilla warfare was in full swing again. Sid's muscles stiffened and his back began to ache. Silvey owned a discolored spot over one eye where an opponent had tried to disable him during a tense moment of the game. John's shin was badly bruised, and Perry Alford had wrenched his ankle. The other members had minor hurts.
Captain Schantze caught him with the full force of his big, open right hand on the left side of his face.... Whish! Captain Schantze caught him with the full force of his open left, on the other cheek! The shanghaied man stiffened. He trembled violently. "Do it a thousand times, my dear captain. I won't sign till you kill me." "Take him forward.
But, if the Jacobin system, in spite of its surviving founders, gradually relaxes after Thermidor; if the main ligature tied around the man's neck, broke just as the man was strangling, the others that still bind him hold him tight, except as they are loosened in places; and, as it is, some of the straps, terribly stiffened, sink deeper and deeper into his flesh.
"You haven't got to choose. You've only got to obey orders...." His face stiffened. He looked like some hard commander imposing an unanswerable will. "... The next time," he said, "you'll be good enough to remember that I settle what risks are to be taken, not you." Her soul stiffened, too, and was hard. She stood up against him with her shoulder to the door. "It sounds all right," she said.
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