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Yet we find in many fishes the pair of fins, which correspond to the hinder limbs of other animals, placed so far forwards as to be either on the same level with, or actually in front of, the normally anterior pair of limbs; and such fishes are from this circumstance called "thoracic," or "jugular" fishes respectively, as the weaver fishes and the cod.
What, then, could they do? "Let us not go back," cried Francois, ever ready with a bold advice; "let us make a boat, and keep on, say I." "Ha! Francois," rejoined Basil, "it's easy to say `make a boat; how is that to be done, I pray?" "Why, what's to hinder us to hew a log, and make a dugout? We have still got the axe, and two hatchets left." Norman asked what Francois meant by a dugout.
"I will be a man of honour!" cried Edward, striking the table with his fist; "I will become a steady man, and be once more respected by others and myself. I will become quite another creature, I will enter on a new course of life!" "Why put thyself out of temper?" said the old man, renewing his draught. "I will not hinder thee; I shall rejoice to see the day.
I don't know which way to move; I don't know what's best to do about anything. The money don't seem to buy anything but more and more care and trouble. We got a big house that we ain't at home in; and we got a lot of hired girls round under our feet that hinder and don't help. Our children don't mind us, and we got no friends or neighbors. But it had to be.
It required all their strength to hinder the horses from plunging into the pool. Only by turning their heads in the opposite direction and driving the spurs into their sides, did they succeed in keeping them away from the water. Even then the suffering animals seemed determined to rear backwards into the pool; and it was not without a struggle that they were forced away from it.
The shrieks of the awakened beast rang for a block around. "If that's your dog," said Jim, when they were on the street again, "what's to hinder you from running that habeas corpus you've got around his neck over a limb and walking off and forgetting him?" "I'd never dare to," said the dogman, awed at the bold proposition. "He sleeps in the bed, I sleep on a lounge.
These representations, which were both reasonable and consonant with truth, had no weight when put into the scale against the envy excited by this advancement of my brother's fortune. Accordingly, every delay was used to hinder him from collecting his forces together, and stop his expedition to Flanders. Bussi and his other dependents were offered a thousand indignities.
"I am to hinder the making of that Road?" cried Linforth. "You are to do more. You are to prevent it." "I have lived so that it should be made." "So you have told me," said Ralston quietly, and Dick was silent. With each quiet sentence Ralston had become more and more the dominating figure. He was so certain, so assured.
In this article there is an account of the behaviour of a young male mandrill when he first beheld himself in a looking-glass, and it is added, that after a time he turned round and presented his red hinder end to the glass.
You know we arranged long ago that the way you were to help matters forward was not to hinder us older girls in our work." "I know," answered Daisy, with a patient sigh. "I won't be selfish, Jasmine. Just kiss me before you go." Jasmine went away, and Daisy, taking the Pink into her arms, sat down close to the fire.
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