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It then commenced unwinding itself, by the head, which was slowly circled backward around the vine still, however, creasing closely along it. After a sufficient number of evolutions, the rings had completely disappeared with the exception of one or two near the tail and the reptile lay doubled along the liana.
Another week sped its days through. It was as the unwinding of a reel of silk, each day a round, each round and the body of the reel grew thinner and thinner, and the coils of silk lay wasted entangled on the floor. Deep shadows settled under Sally's eyes.
Then we pulled out the stones, and Oliver, Japhet, and some others descended to the first level and arranged blasting charges. Awhile after he reappeared with his companions, looking somewhat pale and anxious, and shouted to us to get back. Following our retreat to a certain distance, unwinding a wire as he came, presently he stopped and pressed the button of a battery which he held in his hand.
When the cluster of angels had reached its place, this mandorla, which was fastened to the aforesaid little rope, was lowered very gradually by the unwinding of the rope with another little windlass, and arrived at the platform where the Representation took place; and on this platform, precisely on the spot where the mandorla was to rest, there was a raised place in the shape of a throne with four steps, in the centre of which there was a hole wherein the iron point of the mandorla stood upright.
"They must be," replied the Lion, "for otherwise we would not have bounded so swiftly from one to another without getting hurt." "That is all guesswork," declared the Wizard, unwinding the blankets from his body, "for none of us stayed long enough on the mountains to discover what they are made of. But where are we?" "That's guesswork, too," said Scraps.
Lady Carey, who was slowly unwinding the white veil from her picture hat, shrugged her shoulders. "My dear man," she said, "you could not seriously expect me to fall in love with you." The Prince sipped his wine a cabinet hock of rare vintage and found it good. He leaned over towards his companion. "Why not?" he asked. "I wish that you would try in earnest, I mean.
Nor did she know that she could find the child again when she returned. She must do her work now. So Madge pulled more slowly and carefully at Tania's frock, unwinding it from the spar that held it. With a few gentle tugs she released it and Tania's slender body rose slowly. The child's eyes were closed, her face was as still and white as though she were dead.
Just got to talking and didn't realize. Haven't been worried, ma? Afraid?" She lifted her head from his kiss. "'Afraid! What you take me for? For why should I be worried at only ten o'clock? Say, I'm glad if you stay out for recreation." He kissed her again, shaking out of his coat and unwinding his muffler. "I could just see you walking the floor and looking out of the window."
The man whom M. d'Escorval believed to be his friend did not pause in his labor of unwinding the rope, and it was in the most tranquil voice that he responded: "As you see, I am freeing myself from this burden of rope, which I find extremely uncomfortable. There are at least sixty yards of it, I should think and what a bundle it makes! I feared they would discover it under my cloak."
What a passion comes over us sometimes for silence and rest! that this dreadful mechanism, unwinding the endless tapestry of time, embroidered with spectral figures of life and death, could have but one brief holiday!
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