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If this is humility, put it on stilts, and set it a strutting, while pride takes lessons, and blunders in apeing it. Israelites and Strangers, belonged indiscriminately to each class of the servants, the bought and the hired. That those in the former class, whether Jews or Strangers, rose to honors and authority in the family circle, which were not conferred on hired servants, has been shown.
"The houses here are all on stilts, as in Sumatra and Borneo," observed Scott. "Some of them are built over the water."
The thorn trees shot up to great heights; animals stood on stilts; the tops of the hills were flattened, and from their summits often reached out into space long streamers. Sometimes these latter joined across wide intervals, creating an illusion of natural bridges or lofty flat-topped cliffs with holes clear through them to the open sky beyond.
'She had experience of the Channel last night, Lady Dunstane pursued, and they both, while in seeming converse, caught snatches from their neighbours, during a pause of the dance. The sparkling Diana said to Lord Larrian, 'You really decline to make any of us proud women by dancing to-night? The General answered: 'I might do it on two stilts; I can't on one. He touched his veteran leg.
"Now had the Dutchmen snatched a huge repast," and finding themselves wonderfully encouraged and animated thereby, prepared to take the field. Expectation, says the writer of the Stuyvesant manuscript, expectation now stood on stilts.
In 1864, when I was campaigning on the Red River in Louisiana, I noticed with interest a device that had been put into shape for the purpose of lifting river steamers over shoals. The difficulty on the Red River was that the Rebel sharp-shooters from the banks made the management of the stilts irregular. In 1854, Douglas carried through Congress the Kansas-Nebraska Bill.
The Landese shepherd is provided with a staff which he uses for numerous purposes, such as a point of support for getting on to the stilts and as a crook for directing his flocks. Again, being provided with a board, the staff constitutes a comfortable seat adapted to the height of the stilts. Resting in this manner, the shepherd seems to be upon a gigantic tripod.
Behind the high tamarisk hedge, her garden was a jungle of verdure in summer. Above the cherry trees and peach trees and golden plums stood the windmill, with its tank on stilts, which kept all this verdure alive. Outside, the sage-brush grew up to the very edge of the garden, and the sand was always drifting up to the tamarisks.
"Here young Bunny and Bill, fetch the stilts, and be sharp about it hear?" and he gave them each a punch in the ribs. Thus encouraged, Bunny and Bill scampered across the grass, the fox-terriers yelping at their heels, and, from a convenient out-house all sizes of stilts were produced.
He believed deeply and firmly in the analogy between electrical supply and that for water and gas, and pointed to the trite fact that nobody hoisted the water and gas mains into the air on stilts, and that none of the pressures were inimical to human safety.
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