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In the address the right knee is perceptibly bent, and all the weight of the body is thrown on to it. In the backward swing the right knee stiffens and the left bends in, the left foot leaning slightly over to facilitate its doing so.
I was in charge of a party told off for tae scrub the floor of Room Nummer Seeventeen. I ordered the prisoner tae scrub. He refused. I warned him. He again refused." Click! Lance-Corporal Ness has run down. He has just managed the sentence in a breath. "Corporal Mackay!" The figure upon Lance-Corporal Ness's right stiffens, and inflates itself. "Sirr, on the fufth unst. I was Orderly Sergeant.
It is about three inches long, and sluggish in its movements; but from its tubular mouth it is able to discharge a viscid fluid to the distance of about three inches, which stiffens on exposure to the air to the consistency of a spider's web, but stronger. With this it can envelop and capture its prey, just as a fowler throws his net over a bird.
If it stiffens any further, it will break me; and that's not all, you see. Things have gone tolerably badly with the folks at home, and I fancy it took a good deal of what should have been the girls' portion to start me at Silverdale." "Then," said Winston, "it's no use trying to show you how foolish you've been.
You sent my clear instructions to Escovedo, who was placed with Don John that he might render him pliant to my wishes. Instead, he stiffens him in rebellion. There must be an end to this man." "Sire," I cried, "it may be they think to advance your interests." "Heaven help me!" he cried. "Did ever villain wear so transparent a mask as this dog Escovedo?
You get a shock of fright. Walk over to him slow; you're scared. Get your arms round him. He stiffens at first, then leans on you. He's crying himself now, but you ain't not yet. You're brave because you don't know about this fight he's had with the foreman that's after your boy's sweetheart for no good purpose. "Now go through it that far and see if you remember everything I told you.
He that would coerce my will, stiffens it into rebellion; but when a beloved one says, 'Though I might be much bold to enjoin thee, yet for love's sake I rather beseech, then yielding is blessedness, and the giving ourselves away is the finding of God and ourselves.
Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. The busier the day for Him the more surely must the morning appointment be kept, and even an earlier start made, apparently. The more virtue went forth from Him, the more certainly must He spend time, and even more time, alone with Him who is the source of power.
I shall wear it on my lips till death stiffens them; and I am not at all afraid that any other man will ever be allowed to touch lips that belong to me alone; that I have made, and here seal, all my own! Good-bye." He strained her to him and pressed his lips twice to hers, then the carriage stopped at the railroad station.
For a long while yet there will be a latent disaffection, even when the outward show may be fair, as in spring the ground often stiffens when the thermometer is above the freezing point. But we believe, in spite of this, that all this untowardness will yield to the gradual wooing of circumstances, and that it is to May, and not December, that we are to look forward.
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