In the autumn of 1838, Mrs. Blyth's malady had for some time past assumed the permanent form from which it seldom afterwards varied.She now suffered little actual pain, except when she quitted a recumbent posture.But the general disorganization produced by almost exclusive confinement to one position, had, even at this early period, begun to work sad changes in her personal appearance....
He hesitated for awhile whether to keep the patient on horseback near his breast on the road or to lay her in the litter.Finally he resolved upon the latter course, thinking that she might feel more comfortable in a recumbent posture.Then he approached his uncle and bowed to kiss his hand and bid him good-bye....
The recumbent posture, as might be expected, is of itself frequently enough to give relief.It is much more likely to do so, however, if the hips are elevated by placing a pillow under them....
Fortunately technical difficulties are confined to the first few days, and, trying as they sometimes are, no one should be discouraged or imagine that she is incapable of nursing; for practically every woman who persists will succeed.For a week or ten days the mother will nurse in the recumbent posture.She turns to one side or the other, according as the right or left breast is used, and holds the corresponding arm to receive and support the baby, which will lie beside her....
I rose from my recumbent posture and stood erect; I trembled no more.A curious sensation of defiant amusement possessed me so violently that I laughed aloud....
I rose from my recumbent posture, and stood apart with him conversing.I afterwards remembered that my friend betrayed much anxiety as to where my pistols were, and why I did not carry them on my person....
For an hour or more, Lad lay cuddled under the rug in contented laziness.Then the recumbent posture tired him; and he sat up.As a rule, one or the other of his deities was wont to turn around, at intervals, and speak to him or pet him....
They had stretched themselves across the threshold of the door, so that no one could pass in or out of the church without stepping over them.Tom carefully rose from his recumbent posture, and took possession of the musket.Then, with the utmost prudence, he stepped over the bodies of the sleeping soldiers; but with all his circumspection, he could not prevent one of his shoes from squeaking a little, and it required only a particle of noise to rouse the guard....
Longears rose, and coming to his master, wagged his tail, and asked, with his mute but intelligent glance, what had happened.Verty felt the dog lick his hand, and rose from his recumbent posture....
The water was three inches deep in the bottom of the bateau; but Tom deemed it prudent to lie down there until the current should bear him out of the reach of the rebel bullets.He maintained this recumbent posture for half an hour or more, listening to the balls that frequently whistled over his head.Once he ventured to raise his head, and discovered, not one man, but a dozen, on the shore, which accounted for the rapid firing he heard....
It was going up the river, while he was going down.He had to luff a little to keep clear of the oars, but he did not move from his half-recumbent posture.When the boat was alongside, he glanced idly and carelessly at the person in the stern sheets....
His Samson, who in this as in other things, is Milton himself, allays his thirst "from the clear milky juice."Bed with its warmth and recumbent posture he found favourable to composition.At other times he would compose or prune his verses, as he walked in the garden, and then, coming in, dictate....
Rested from the severe fatigue he had undergone, he felt a new vigor stealing through his frame.Something like hope again flitted before his desponding mind, and, partially raising himself from his recumbent posture, he gazed about the apartment.The pit he had dug was yawning near him....
SOCRATES sometimes remained a whole day in immovable meditation, his eyes and countenance directed to one spot, as if in the stillness of death.LA FONTAINE, when writing his comic tales, has been observed early in the morning and late in the evening in the same recumbent posture under the same tree.This quiescent state is a sort of enthusiasm, and renders everything that surrounds us as distant as if an immense interval separated us from the scene....
What with this and the alarm of the prairie dogs, an old bull, a patriarch of the tribe, jumped up and walked with majestic paces to the top of the knoll.We lay flat on our faces, till he, satisfied with the result of his scrutiny, resumed his recumbent posture; but with his head turned straight towards us....
In this I was placed, in a half sitting, half recumbent posture, which I need scarcely observe was not very agreeable.When I got out to call at a gentleman's house, before I reached my ultimate destination, I found that the cramp in the calves of my legs had so disabled me, that I could scarcely stand, and it was a considerable time before I could walk unaided and free from pain....
