He was but a link in the chain of her paternal love, and the bonds having been broken she looked on the shattered fragment and sought not to unite what yet remained in an unhurt state.When she rose from her stooping posture her face had resumed its cold and rigid appearance....
While standing near by us a shell burst as it passed him, tearing his clothes and wounding him severely.Though drawn to a stooping posture, he lived many years.Next I saw a ricocheting shell strike Captain Caskie, of Richmond, Virginia, on his seat, which knocked him eight or ten feet and his red cap some feet farther....
To the first of these conditions is due the habitual stooping posture assumed by these children.The habit referred to is not the only cause of these conditions, but its causative occurrence is sufficiently frequent to give it no small importance as a suspicious indication....
I was actually compelled to lean forward in a stooping posture to catch my breath.For fully five minutes this overwhelming deluge continued to descend upon us, and then it relaxed somewhat and settled down into a steady downpour....
She decided that he would not come back at once, and gave him two days to digest his spoil, and on the third day she got up very early in the hopes of being on the scenes before him, ready to receive him when he came.She had only been in the garden a few moments when she saw some one, in a stooping posture, running swiftly towards the fowl-run.A moment later and he had seen her....
Blue Dave rose from his stooping posture, steadied himself a moment, and then moved on with his living burden.He moved slowly and cautiously at first, but gradually increased his pace to a swinging walk that carried him forward with surprising swiftness....
Small boys used it as a cave when playing brigands, and for so doing had their ears boxed by irate members of the Sports Committee.It was too low to admit of any one's moving about except in a stooping posture, and pitch dark unless the door was left wide open."What do you think it is?" said Mugford....
His mouth, which he had opened to heap abuse upon me, remained open, his eyes still looked threatening, but about the lower part of his face a smile began to play which spread more and more.The girl remained indifferent and continued in her stooping posture....
About one hundred yards in our rear, up the ravine, was a good spring of water.The men could reach this in safety by going down the breastworks in a stooping posture, then up the ravine to the spring.A recruit in the Second Regiment had gone to this spring and was returning....
They are circular, built with stones, like a round tower, eighteen or twenty feet high, having a hillock heaped around in a great portion of their circumference, so that the marble may be brought and thrown in by cart-loads at the top.At the bottom there is a doorway, large enough to admit a man in a stooping posture.Thus an edifice of great solidity is constructed, which will endure for centuries, unless needless pains are taken to tear it down....
Charlotte, who was practical without ability, knelt by the side of an empty trunk, vainly endeavouring to pave it with books of varying thickness and size.She gave two or three sighs, for the stooping posture hurt her back, and, for all her diplomacy, she felt that she was growing old.The girl heard her as she entered the room, and was seized with one of those emotional impulses to which she could never attribute a cause....
Her feet were immersed in water, and she stood in a stooping posture to screen herself from observation, should the Indians return to seek her.In the mean time, her little boy slumbered peacefully, and regardless of surrounding perils....
A thousand wild flowers, comprising every hue, filled the air with delicious fragrance, while no sound was heard but the melody of happy birds."I think I see a duck!" whispered Joe, as they moved slowly along the path in a stooping posture."Where?" asked Glenn, as they crept softly to the blind and cast their eyes over the clear unruffled water....
The man is in a stooping posture, his head sustained on his hands, and his elbows renting on his knees.The face has an expression of pain which seems to indicate a, violent death....
When she reached the spot she stooped and plucked some flowers, gathering up the paper as she did so.And still in the stooping posture, she read the note, crumpled it and stuffed it into a hole in the wall....
