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Continue the motion until you have run down the string a distance of eight inches. During the process you will see the wisdom of having rolled the excess string up into little skeins to keep them from being tangled. Thus the upper eye is formed. At this stage unwind your skeins and stretch the string down the bow, untwisting and drawing straight the three strands.
But he never consciously carried his actions outside the sphere of his own duty; and in this case the two attitudes were aptly tested. He was just about to resume his trudge in the twilight, telling himself it was no affair of his, but instinctively twisting and untwisting twenty theories about what the odd noises might mean.
Marcelle had coloured to the roots of her hair, and stood twisting and untwisting her apron-string. "Ah well! I see you have not thought of that," said the old aunt; "but never mind, we will find some place to put it in after breakfast; you know we are to breakfast together." This was a point Marcelle had not forgotten, and she forthwith led the way to her breakfast-table.
He stood patiently enduring it, his lowered eyes following the aimless movements of his hands, which were twisting and untwisting his flexible straw hat; and it might have struck me as nearer akin to tragedy rather than to a thing for laughter: this spectacle of a grown man so like a schoolboy before the master, shamefaced over a stammered confession.
The only idea I had was that if I refused him he might tell some dirty little lie about me. I was all confused mixed up. I felt just as though it were a snake that I had to humor to get rid of. I gave him the break." Condy sat speechless. Suddenly he arose. "Well, now, let's see," he began, speaking rapidly, his hands twisting and untwisting till the knuckles cracked. "Now, let's see.
She stared at him defiantly, twisting and untwisting the ribbons of her blue dress. George reddened hotly. His personal pride in matters of social manners was one of his strongest characteristics. "Let me beg you, at any rate, to write and tell Lord Cathedine that we will not trouble him for any more of these kind offices.
She rose to her feet, but instead of going from the room remained standing, hesitating, twisting and untwisting her fingers together, and at length she moved to a chair close to her mother and sat down again. "I must tell you something else, mother," she said.
'Aunt Lisbeth does not approve of my songs, replied Margarita, untwisting some silver threads. 'Do thy father's command, girl! said Aunt Lisbeth. 'And doing his command, Should I do a thing of ill, I'd rather die to his lovely face, Than wanton at his will. 'There there, said Aunt Lisbeth, straining out her fingers; 'you see, Gottlieb, what over-indulgence brings her to.
She seated herself in the chair, which, with unwonted ceremoniousness, he wheeled forward for her; but he himself stood on the hearth-rug, twisting and untwisting the paper in his hand, as if extraordinary occurrence! as if he were actually nervous. "I have a proposition to make to you," he said. He uttered his words very rapidly, but made long pauses between some of the sentences.
Use the figure-eight knot to make a knot on the end of a rope or to prevent the end of the strands from untwisting. This knot is not difficult to untie. 47 Loop. 48 Round turn. =Bow-Line Knot= To form a loop that will not slip and yet may be easily untied use the bow-line knot. When the loop is not fastened to anything use the overhand method of tying it.
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