I spoke to him I know not what; but he took no notice of what I said, and remained in the same attitude as before.He stood some minutes in that posture, then turned and walked towards the door....
Because, given wings, neither of which is broken, how would it have allowed itself to come into that posture at all?Saints, however, must be saints; and their adversaries know this....
Chilo raised his head, opened his arms, and remained in that posture.The moon shone with full light on his white hair and on his equally white face, which was as motionless as if dead or cut out of stone....
In the amphitheater were men who had raised their arms and remained in that posture.Sweat covered the faces of others, as if they themselves were struggling with the beast....
They then all simultaneously threw themselves upon their knees, imploring his pardon.The king allowed them to remain for some time in that posture, that he might enjoy their humiliation.He then ordered his officers to conduct them into the hall of justice, and detain them there until he had decided respecting their punishment....
M. Law, finding himself abandoned and alone, resolved not to turn his back.He bestrode one of his guns and remained firm in that posture, waiting the moment for his death....
"Sure, Fardorougha, the world won't be as much in your heart now, nor your temper so dark as it was."He made no reply; but, placing his other hand over his eyes, he sat in that posture for some minutes.On raising his head the tears were running as if involuntarily down his cheeks....
When they found he stood firm, they pulled up the ropes, and left the gentleman in that posture.They were scarcely got into their chamber, when the purveyor went into his, being just come from a wedding feast, with a lantern in his hand....
So that the glorie begins to shew itsselfe, no order being observed among them.The one sings, the other before goes in that posture without bad encounter....
He raised him to a sitting posture, but finding that, standing as he did upon soft snow, to lift him was impossible, he laid him again in the self-made grave.That posture at least would be most conducive to the continued motion of the heart.Standing upon the other side of the body, Courthope's shoe struck upon another hard object which he found to be a case, stolen locked as it was, which contained, no doubt, the other valuables whose loss Madge had first discovered....
His attitude had the unconsidered and violent prostration of an overspent dog.The beaten animal in him was expressed in every detail of that posture.It showed even in his white, drawn eyelids, and in the falling of a finger....
I will begin a great work -- a modern Magdalen or something of that sort.We can use you in just that posture, kneeling before a rock with outstretched hands, and head turned away....
An hour passed, and neither Mary nor her mother moved from that posture of affliction, yet of prayer.They heard not the sound of many voices below, nor a rapid footstep on the stairs....
Terrified at what she saw, or thought she saw, she closed the door hastily, and, sinking on her knees by a chair, prayed to be delivered from the horrors of the vision.She remained in that posture till her friends below tapped on the door, to intimate that tea was ready.Recalled to herself by the signal, she arose, and, on opening the apartment door, again was confronted by the visionary Highlander, whose bloody brow bore token, on this second appearance, to the death he had died....
Many of those unfortunates remained for some time in that posture contending with death.Once fallen it was impossible for them, even with their utmost efforts, to rise again....
