| 单词 | straightness |
| 例句 | But in the darkness, while my teeth were slowly coerced into straightness, the rest of my face had begun to give in to a stronger, genetic predisposition toward crookedness. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My almost-black hair is flat against my head, and the tips of my ears poke through all the heavy straightness. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The straightness of the way, the swish of traffic, the unbroken speed are hypnotic, and while the miles peel off an imperceptible exhaustion sets in. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached for a nearby piece of wood and turned it over in her hands, measuring its strength and its straightness. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I watched the straightness of her as she moved, her long belly, the dark collapse below that. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit straighter too, to match her straightness, and she looks surprised by it. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “You must have Cherokee blood,” she said of the straightness, when all I had was Big Ma’s hot comb and Mrs.’s curling expertise. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z He could not take a chance—not with the life or with the straightness of Coyotito. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z He was aware of her attention, of the straightness and speed of it like a lance from her brilliant eyes. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The straightness in her back made the stiffness settle in my chest for a second. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z I thought I could see her kicking at the bleached, known stones; the hard southern light surrendering to her boyish straightness; those clear green eyes, leveling on the rim of the arched sea. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Str8 dudes’ straightness is constituted by their way of life; it is performed and substantiated through a hyper-masculine and misogynistic rejection of queer culture. Straight white dude seeks same: Race, power and the secret world of straight guy-on-guy action 2015-08-09T04:00:00Z Looking around me, I noted the spruce trees among the maples, their tall trunks vying for straightness in an effort to rise above their neighbors and gain a better share of the sun’s rays. Trellises and other supports that blend into the garden — and sometimes shine 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z In a bit of self-replicating and unofficial absurdity, the hashtag #HeterosexualPrideDay began trending on Wednesday, promptly leading to an outpouring of humor and sarcasm — with a smattering of embarrassingly serious declarations of straightness. The Internet is embarrassing today: #HeterosexualPrideDay twists solidarity of LGBT+ Pride 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z Her marriage to him, he suggests, gave her the ability to reclaim her blackness while holding on to a basic image of straightness. Production of a Lifetime: Whitney Houston and Clive Davis 2017-09-30T04:00:00Z Do you leave your straightness “in the house?” Rand Paul’s moronic views on LGBT discrimination: Go ahead and get fired for being gay, “there are plenty of places that will hire you” 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z “I spent freshman year trying straightness on for size and failing miserably,” he says. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z The overwhelming straightness of mainstream cinema has gone mostly unchallenged for years, studios unwilling to allow gay characters into the multiplex, leaving them to flourish in the arthouse instead. Finally, a major Hollywood franchise movie with a gay romance | Benjamin Lee 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z You have to actively claim straightness in the same way, I think, you have to actively claim monogamy. Can women be saved from bad sex? "Finding your desires is a conscious process," says author 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Little Richard was a challenge to 1950s proprieties: to segregation, to musical decorum, to chastity, to straightness. Little Richard: An Ecstasy You Couldn’t Refuse 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z Was her straightness part of what attracted him to her? Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z I spoke to Brenneman recently about why we parents need to get out of the straightness rut when we talk to and play with our children, and why it matters, for all our kids. Even gay-friendly parents still assume their kids are straight 2013-03-15T15:20:00Z In pictures such as Giant and Magnificent Obsession, he made a generation of postwar women swoon and fantasise; they were convinced of his rock solid straightness. Earth to Bret Easton Ellis: you needn't be straight to play a lady-spanker 2012-08-08T15:25:58Z Its climactic drama glances off a theme from “Moonlight,” the torment of repressed homosexual desire and of the need to prove straightness to straight males by means of violence. Highlights from the 2017 Sundance Film Festival 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z That queer too, is not a monolith, there are different ways to be queer, different narratives that do not fit neatly into Western models of coming out and nesting in nuclear families that replicate straightness. Yes, it’s possible to be queer and Muslim 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z And he must finally satisfy her, not only because the Hollywood code demands that he display his straightness but because she's Elizabeth Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Actress Defined Modern Fame 2011-04-14T08:35:00Z Her jawline is tilted yet higher than in the clothed version; and the left leg, on which she rests her weight, has a straightness he altered in the other treatment. ‘Degas’s Little Dancer’ Spotlights a Seminal Sculpture 2014-12-25T05:00:00Z Ms. Kirova considered herself and Mr. Trifonov to be open-minded — “artistic” is how she put it — but it took her a long time to question her own straightness. A Dating App for Three, Plus 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z But the Egyptians imported conifers—which builders often preferred for their straightness and strength—from Lebanon and Syria. Marking time: Cosmic ray storms can pin precise dates on history from ancient Egypt to the Vikings 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Neatness, tidiness and straightness will be among judges' criteria at the Irish National Ploughing Championships, which opened at Ratheniska, in County Laois, on Tuesday. County Laois: Irish ploughing championships return after Covid break 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z "He constantly peers in the mirror, feels his forehead, measures the length of his nose, examines the tiniest defects in his skin, or measures the proportions of his trunk and the straightness of his limbs." “My face looked wrong”: How body dysmorphic disorder changes your perception of yourself 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z Notably, he did not consider the possibility that straightness is also something kids might try on and decide they don't like. Florida Republicans revive deadly "queers recruit" myth with passage of "don't say gay" bill 2022-03-08T05:00:00Z Questions about her authenticity — her straightness, her Blackness — dogged her even as she soared. A new book makes a rousing case for Whitney Houston. 7 key takeaways 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z This was especially true when I reached Karl Marx Allee, my favorite street in Berlin for its Soviet-style architecture and for its unusual straightness, which invites the cyclist to really hammer the pedals. The Joys of Biking at Night 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z Just look at the ruler straightness of his eye black. Perspective | Tom Brady, with discipline and meticulous planning, put aside the indignity of athletic aging 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z If an Asian American man can win the love of a white woman, he thinks, then he might have a claim to America in all its whiteness and straightness and maleness after all. 'Good-looking for an Asian': how I shed white ideals of masculinity 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z The counterculture of that period reacted against the perceived “straightness” of postwar America, the posturing strongman leaders, the endless conflicts abroad. A new study shows more Americans are dropping acid. Why? | John Semley 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z Their report added that “the straightness of the sides combine to suggest that this anomaly may be a common grave.” Search finds possible graves of Tulsa Race Massacre victims 2019-12-17T05:00:00Z It’s an act of insurrection against straightness, a transgressive remaking of the dominant hetero commons. In 'Cruising,' public hookups go beyond desire — they're acts of resistance 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z The recall notice was announced in the Commons by business minister Kelly Tolhurst after former Conservative minister Andrew Griffiths raised "great concern" over Whirlpool's "straightness". Government tells Whirlpool to recall dryers 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z She wants to will her son into straightness; he demands to be accepted as he is. Harvey Fierstein and Ngozi Anyanwu’s Dramatic Self-Portraits 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Jaguar took me to a hangar in Monterey to meet the E-Type Zero, painted a swimming metallic bronze and fettled to a straightness that is itself wildly anachronistic. 1968 Jaguar E-Type Zero: Revamping the Vintage Roadster as an Electric Car 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Many Americans believe that identity is constructed of whatever differentiates a person from what is falsely considered neutral: whiteness, straightness, and maleness. Trump and the Truth: The “Mexican” Judge 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Chosen for use in The Clock because of strength/weight/straightness. Starkville-built grandfather clock headed to Capitol 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z Gibbs says shot straightness was the main motivating factor on Great Big Bertha. Callaway expands adjustability with new Great Big Bertha and 816 drivers: The Loop 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z So she was not bothered by her brother’s gayness—except, perhaps, in a social sense—because she had not believed in his straightness, either. Anne Enright’s Family Agonies 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z With the fairways wide, the test from the tee is one of accuracy rather than mere straightness -- just as it is on the most famous links in the world, the Old Course at St. Andrews. This is as close to 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Tuktamysheva’s chances for Sochi were derailed this year as her body matured and she lost some of the prepubescent straightness that allows skaters to complete complex jumps flawlessly. In Russia, Skating Booms Again 2014-01-31T18:55:51Z Whether he announces his gayness or affirms his straightness, any comment he makes on his sexuality will no doubt be fodder for gay journalists to further shame him. Outing the Hypocrisy of Outing 2014-01-07T05:01:53Z The second did not swing; instead it possessed a lethal straightness. Somerset's Peter Trego makes short work of Graeme Smith's Surrey opener 2013-04-18T19:44:46Z My orthodontist, not satisfied with with mere straightness, also wanted to break my jaw and move it forward because I have a slight overbite. The strange allure of teeth 2012-09-28T16:32:32Z Driving close to trouble therefore gains its due reward, accuracy trumping mere straightness. This is as close to 2013-10-16T04:00:00Z Of the three launch angles tested in this activity, the horizontal launches probably resulted in the overall "best" Frisbee throws in terms of distance and straightness. Soaring Science: The Aerodynamics of Flying a Frisbee 2012-08-09T14:15:03.010Z We bow things the contrary way, to make them come to their natural straightness. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z The prominent characteristics of these files are their exceedingly even curvature and straightness, and, in the finer grades, the unusual fineness of the cut, which feels soft and velvety to the touch. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z The most evident distinction between the qualities of hair and wool is the comparative straightness of the former, and the crisped or spirally-curling form which the latter assumes. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z For here, in place of the irregular and curved vistas in which the builders of modern Naples have delighted, is a long narrow street of exceeding straightness, cleaving like an arrow-flight through the close-packed houses. Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z It ran first for five miles straight as an arrow; the straightness was apparent at the time, but the five miles seemed like twenty. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z For testing the straightness, in one direction only, of a surface the straight-edge is employed. Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II 2012-03-23T02:00:33.140Z A pier which stretches out its long straightness and suggests a task rather than a pleasure, is filled with happy promenaders, who sniff up the smell of the seaweed and recognise it as ozone. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z By that magnificent and masterly indirectness which means the only dramatic straightness and intensity. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Leger made a little gesture, and glanced at Ingleby, as if to ask for support, but though Hetty's brows were assuming a portentous straightness she smiled again. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z A good ploughman will set up a pole a quarter of a mile distant, and trace a furrow so true up to that goal that no eye can detect any divergence from absolute straightness. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z He walked on steadily, until the inflexible straightness of the endless road began to afflict him, and he longed for a turning to the right or left. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z Their straightness and the way they glistened suggested the resemblance. The Protector 2011-12-14T03:00:17.460Z It usually happens to be a scree-gully, but the fundamental idea is straightness. Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England 2011-11-14T03:00:21.670Z These broaden and strengthen the curves, and preserve them from lapsing to narrowness and feebleness; lending touches of straightness and firmness which nobly enhance the graces. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Though only of average height, she generally gave the impression of being tall by the erect way in which she habitually carried her head, and by the straightness and spareness of her whole figure. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z The trees ate its undeviating straightness as though they would smother it from sight, as though its rigid outline marred their mystery. The Wolves of God And Other Fey Stories 2011-12-17T03:00:15.447Z All are ready to admit that he was an able ruler; but he had not that perfect uprightness and straightness which give to a ruler the qualities most to be desired. The Comic History of Rome 2011-10-09T02:00:24.507Z Even when the other things were not quite equal, he still had a mild preference for straightness. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z With some persons absolute straightness of back comes almost naturally; with others the attainment of straightness is not a matter of much difficulty. Boating 2011-09-21T02:00:35.453Z Euclid’s Definition 4, I., “A straight line is that which lies evenly between its extreme points,” must be meaningless to any one who has not the notion of straightness in his mind. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z It was he who invented the "bulger," that club with its convex face, off which the ball flew with a straightness that was a revelation. Fifty Years of Golf 2011-09-14T02:00:50.627Z The straightness of his figure is the more noticeable on account of his Quaker dress, the coat of which fits him as neatly and closely as if it were the conventional 'swallow-tail.' John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Millions and millions of pesetas' worth of property have been demolished to allow for the straightness of this street, which is to ask for comparison with a part of the Fifth Avenue across the water. The Happy Golfer Being Some Experiences, Reflections, and a Few Deductions of a Wandering Golfer 2011-08-21T02:00:29.747Z "Why, yes," she admitted with her crystal straightness. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z We admired the vigor of his style, the lucidity of his thought and the straightness of his expression. Our Revolution Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917 2011-06-04T02:00:16.113Z The reader will perhaps find it necessary to convince himself of the straightness of the horizontal edges by applying a straight edge. Visual Illusions Their Causes, Characteristics and Applications 2011-06-02T02:00:25.247Z Treaties ignored through generations, in both letter and spirit, are not calculated to beget faith in the hearts of the red nations, or teach them belief in the straightness of our tongues. Told In The Hills 2011-05-30T02:00:15.530Z In strictness, we should only need a microscope, in order, not to understand, but to see at a glance, that the lines which we trace deviate from straightness, and differ in length. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Looking for Empathy in a Conflict-Ridden World I witnessed a breakup yesterday in the middle of MIT’s vast Infinite Corridor—a hallway known for its heavy traffic and long stretch of straightness. Looking for Empathy in a Conflict-Ridden World 2011-05-18T14:15:02.227Z Well proportioned, for so old and ill-clad a lady, did she show to be as she sprang back from him, surprised into height, straightness and lissome lines. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z The remarkable straightness and uniformity of the ridge indicated that it had itself at one time been the lakeshore in the days when even this great lake had been larger. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The characters of straightness and slenderness on which much stress was laid are found in exaggerated form in gibbons and lemurs. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z And he must finally satisfy her, not only because the Hollywood code demands that he display his straightness but because she's Liz Taylor. Elizabeth Taylor, 1932-2011: Hollywood's Star of Stars 2011-03-23T18:15:00Z The Long Walk, however, is a very fine sight, in spite of its dire straightness. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 2011-03-21T02:00:11.920Z The greater straightness depends particularly on the lesser curve of its external portion, while in man it extends far backward, and then comes forward. Beauty Illustrated Chiefly by an Analysis and Classificatin of Beauty in Woman 2011-02-28T03:00:32.460Z The straightness of its course showed that it was not a river. Billy Barcroft, R.N.A.S. A story of the Great War 2011-02-24T03:01:02.917Z It appeared plainly to me that the main object of these contorted groups was to break in upon the squareness and straightness of all the other members of the Doric frieze and architrave. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z How much I love goodness, straightness, singleness of heart—you. Fr?ulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther 2011-02-17T03:00:18.413Z The yellow pine predominated, a tree remarkable for the straightness and tallness of its stems, and for the height at which its branches begins. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z "Am I responsible for the heat of your temper and the straightness of your talking?" Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Even if it had not been so short and of such an intractable, limp straightness. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z And, merely as straightness, how was he now to acquire even an ordinary identity? The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Spurrier’s smiling lips tightened instantly out of their infectious amiability into a forbidding straightness. The Law of Hemlock Mountain The horns are peculiar for their upright direction and comparative straightness, although they have the same triangular section as in other buffaloes. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" They were "so wonderfully large that he could not exaggerate their height and straightness, and he perceived that in them was material for great stores of planks and masts for the largest ships of Spain." The History of Cuba, vol. 1 He was even better-looking than he had been as a boy, his sunburn of a deeper tan, and the still noticeable cast in one eye adding a certain character to the straightness of his features. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z This match between odd and even lasted until in all its straightness of perfect division six o'clock was inscribed upon his watch. Sinister Street, vol. 1 They are coral stone, and are hewn into a tolerably good shape, both with respect to the straightness of their sides and flatness of their surfaces. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II She clung to that idea as to the sign of her straightness. The Spoils of Poynton But the patience of the manipulator! the straightness of vision, to be certain of the moment to operate it! The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel This great straightness of the stream is ascribed by Mr. Forshey to the superior tenacity of the banks, which are more clayey in this region. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology In it, if he be a man, he gets that straightness of soul in which he loses “I” and then finds it again in that other one for whom his soul longs. Was It Right to Forgive? A Domestic Romance The old lady's thin and grayish locks had been replaced by a false front of smooth brown, with puffs at the side, and a nice white part of most unnatural straightness down the middle. Harper's Round Table, June 25, 1895 Perhaps the cool straightness of the question contained a hint of expert advice, as if for his field he would prescribe phosphates or nitrate or sulphate of ammonia. Carnival There was no outline, there were no gracious curves, only a suggestion of angular shadows, scratched across with brutal straightness. Ewing\\'s Lady The straightness of this query rather nonplussed Stride. Forging the Blades A Tale of the Zulu Rebellion This colporteur has a keen, clean mind—any one can see that—and I like him for his childlike straightness of soul. Seeds of Pine For what better in anyone can you have than the straightness of a die, whether you regard him as man or master? Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder These are the beds so notable for their accurate straightness and parallelism. 2nd. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Each one had been carefully selected for its symmetrical straightness, as a representative tree from the different forests of the world. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century "So straight!" and Gladys emphasised her straightness by putting both arms up in the air. Two Little Women But the soldiers stepped over them, and maintained the straightness of their lines. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 And such straightness in a shipbuilder is not that the supreme quality? Thomas Andrews Shipbuilder It is still, however, somewhat wanting in the expression of straightness, and therefore slightly unnatural. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) He had in fact for this connexion a vivid mental image—he saw it as a small emergent rock in the waste of waters, the bottomless grey expanse of straightness. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II As she had done before, she remarked upon the massiveness of the walls and the straightness of the window openings. Up the Forked River Or, Adventures in South America A curious feature is the extraordinary straightness of the main roads, down which you can literally see for miles. War Letters of a Public-School Boy Bright sunshine streamed down on them, the sledge ran easily up the slopes and down the hollows, and looking back when they nooned Harding noticed the straightness of their course. Blake's Burden But what most puzzled me was the intense straightness of the lines of the gneiss beds, dipping, as it seemed, under the Mont Blanc. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) If he positively wanted not to be brought up with his nose against Milly's facts, what better proof could he have that his conduct was marked by straightness? The Wings of the Dove, Volume II In a line of marvellous straightness, Younkins guided the leading yoke of cattle directly toward the creek on the other side of which Charlie yet stood, a tall, but animated landmark. The Boy Settlers A Story of Early Times in Kansas He was taller even than the great Black Chief himself––but shorter in the body, and achieving his height through length and straightness of leg. In the Morning of Time The true bowman's hand showeth not in the prettiness of an arrow, mother, but in the straightness and hardness of the wand. Robin Hood It will be noticed, however, that in this example of Durer's, the recognition of straightness of line does not exist, and that for this reason the hills look soft and earthy, not rocky. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) Her straightness, visibly, was all his own loyalty could ask. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II But his shoulders were bent from their accustomed straightness, and his eyes lacked their steady gleam. Duncan Polite The Watchman of Glenoro She stood deep in thought—artlessly posed in lance-like straightness, and on the smooth whiteness of her neck a breath of breeze stirred wisps of bronzed and crisply curling hair. The Roof Tree As qualifications for such work, Clarke had exceptional courage, straightness of eye, and a decided taste for exposing shams, superadded to a forcible and satirical style of expression. Australian Writers Professor Lowell thinks that the perfect straightness of the lines, and the geometrical manner in which they are arranged, are clear evidences of artificiality. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language As she mounted her bicycle, the shut firmness of her mouth, the straightness of her back, and the grip of her little hands on the handle bars were eloquent of her determination to be gone. The Combined Maze When the pull begins to operate, both this and the wind will be working together, and the ball will be carried a much greater length, its straightness depending upon the accuracy of allowance. The Complete Golfer Something born of her own deep understanding told her, give this man straightness for straightness always if you would stand well with him; no begging the question, no subterfuge. The Rhodesian When we have mastered the notion of straightness, we have also mastered that aspect of it expressed by the affirmation that two straight lines can not inclose a space. A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive The curves of Beatrice's mouth were of a kind that have twisted many men's lives awry; and those men have thought straightness well lost for such red lips. The Message The smoothness and straightness of the bore is remarkable. Children of Borneo Mrs. Crowley observed with delight the straightness of her nose and the delicate curve of her lips. The Explorer What delicacy and justness of expression! how true and clear! how little we see nowadays, among grown-up men, of this straightness of the soul—of this losing or never finding “ce moi!” Spare Hours The result of this comparison is, inter alia, that straightness in two lines is seen to be incompatible with inclosing a space; the inclosure of space involves crookedness in at least one of the lines.” A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive Then when the blast is past, this tower of steel and of stone swings back to straightness again. Here and Now Story Book Two- to seven-year-olds The real and essential meaning of 'virtue' is in that straightness of back. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing The classic stiffness and straightness of the First French Empire distinguished the gilded chairs and tables in the drawing-room. Vixen, Volume I. Elsewhere also were many rounded and waving lines, where the image of a church would suggest straightness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 Then the two lines, still keeping their straightness and evenness, danced toward each other slowly and rhythmically. The Riflemen of the Ohio A Story of the Early Days along "The Beautiful River" So Bevis followed the little blue butterfly, who danced along as straight as it was possible for him to go, for he, like Bevis, did not like too much straightness. Wood Magic A Fable But they were planted with such exactness and straightness that the poor flowers looked cramped and artificial and stiff as a party of angular ladies dressed in bombazine. The Uncalled A Novel She paused again and the line of her mouth took on a grimmer straightness. Stubble As the largest of the four crates lifted from its bed, it twisted the lines toward straightness. Space Platform The small handmaiden was doubled up on the floor, with her face muffled in her gingham apron and her long braids of red hair hanging with limp straightness down her back. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 The care shown in rearing insures a perfect straightness of stem, and an equable diameter of about an inch or an inch and a half. Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce The ruled-line straightness of the first six rockets’ course abruptly broke. The Aliens Love of straightness, without love of learning, sinks into rudeness. The Sayings Of Confucius "I heard voices," she said, looking a little dazed, but standing with her old straightness. Moor Fires But Daisy could never be quite restored to straightness. A Little Girl in Old New York Very soon, I fancy, these Marchante Taylours began to pride themselves on the straightness of their legs, and let subordinate craftsmen stretch their sartorius muscles. The Perfect Gentleman There was then a hard, long straightness about his head and face, giving to his countenance the form of a parallelogram, to which there belonged a certain meanness of expression. Orley Farm Under rapid and ruthless hands straightness was already appearing out of the confusion. The Crooked House The straightness of the point can be obtained by a little practice in "feeling" the glass when the tube is rotated as it cools just before it loses its viscous condition. On Laboratory Arts Only in the dark-blue eyes there was still that unabashed, quick glance and long-abiding straightness, and innocent hardness, and the unconscious selfishness of the uncontaminated. Adam Johnstone's Son He looked at her and grew confused before the straightness of her eyes, as if she knew the tawdry little plot moving through his mind. Erik Dorn She told her story with sense and straightness, her frenzy subdued by the day's rigour. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn These attempts of mine to establish my superiority by revilement might have occasioned me amusement to-day, had not their want of straightness and common courtesy been too painful. My Reminiscences And she, on her part, had not failed to note that, besides his straightness and look of strength, there was something of virile charm. The Wrong Woman Olive saw not her face, except the cheek's outline, worn to the straightness of age. Olive A Novel I shall be there, in the very front seat, dressed in flowing curls," Catie's hair, at this epoch, was pokery in its stiff straightness; "and a real lace dress. The Brentons There was an ethereal quality in the beauty of her pale face, jet-crowned in the starlight, and a Jeanne d'Arc gallantry in the straightness of her slender figure. The Tyranny of Weakness She knew it was not a straight transaction, and poor Gwen, with all her faults, loved straightness. The Youngest Girl in the Fifth A School Story Just look at the straightness of that wall running up the hill, and how exact the alignment is of the two parts above and below that ledge of rocks. The Aztec Treasure-House Were all men cast in a divine mould of strength and straightness and gallant bearing, and all women proportioned, graceful, and fair, the artist would need no gallery, at least to begin his studies with. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry For many months past Ralph Vernon had persistently allowed himself to fall short of his best, slacking in work, overstepping at play, abandoning “straightness” for a gathering mesh of deceit. A College Girl Rhoda looked at her fully, with a firmness of chin, a straightness of eye, which argued ill for the success of the project. Tom and Some Other Girls A Public School Story There was, perhaps, nothing very remarkable about that, but there was a peculiarity about those rushes that Billy was the first to observe and remark upon, namely, their absolutely perfect straightness. The Strange Adventures of Eric Blackburn Beyond Springfontein the straightness of the line sufficiently testifies to the easy practicability of the country it traverses. Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900 But he would not be denied; his tread came nearer; he overtook her and halted almost by her side, raising his hat and gazing with uncompromising straightness in her face. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House The merchant and the slave-girl therefore came to him; and when he saw her, he found her to resemble the lance in straightness and slenderness. The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales His eyes were running approvingly over her perfect figure, noting the straightness of the back, the fine poise of the head, the shapeliness of the slender hands. The Daffodil Mystery Hence, its consistence being naturally stiff, it does not easily bend under the load, and keeps its straightness when used in the framework. The Ten Books on Architecture There was no more straightness in their furrows than in a dog's hind leg. Stories of Comedy Anything of loyalty, of straightness, or of manhood. The Call of the Blood Beauty or ugliness, weakness or strength, deformity or straightness, are common to the Cagots as to the rest of the human race. Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre There is a straightness and a stiffness about men who have been under the hands of the drill sergeant there is no mistaking; and I could swear that fellow is a Gascon, as he said. Saint Bartholomew's Eve A Tale of the Huguenot WarS But the grey in this case was not so pure, nor were the straightness and the slenderness so maidenly. The Tragic Muse To me the straightness of our life is the straightness of a thin cord stretched tight. The Napoleon of Notting Hill How he manages to form tunnels and burrows in lines of such unusual straightness is unknown; he always works in darkness, unless it is that he can see in the dark. The Human Side of Animals This was intended to preserve the straightness and grace of her figure. Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 The main drain should, usually, be run as nearly in the lowest part of the principal valley as is consistent with tolerable straightness. Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health The edges of the beds—gentle waves that never degenerate to straightness—are thickly bordered with mignonette. The Amateur Garden He is praised by all as a hunter, and for the straightness of his aim with a gun. The Golden Silence The selfish, mean-souled, dull-witted human being, whose huge fortune, coupled with the masculine virtues of physical courage and straightness in matters of sport, made him not only popular but in a small way a personage! The Uttermost Farthing Once when they had halted at noon he pointed out a hillside of pine, black beneath the rain, close-clustered and of mastlike straightness. Then I'll Come Back to You Her beauty was extraordinary, like that of the Marquesans, with that peculiar straightness of all the lines, at once Grecian, austere, and incalculably voluptuous.— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story It was this, perhaps, that saved us from disaster—this and the keenness of American eyes, and the straightness of American shooting. Our Navy in the War The quality and capacity of that soil, its ability to “grow” with due freshness and straightness any vision of life, represents, strongly or weakly, the projected morality. Contemporary American Literature Bibliographies and Study Outlines The Admiral looked up the hill, and saw that they were so wonderfully large that he could not exaggerate their height and straightness, like stout yet fine spindles. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 If they were really out and knew it, it would be better, for they could see more distinctly the path they were not in, its straightness and attractiveness. Quiet Talks on Following the Christ The geometrical perfection of the lines, their straightness, their absolute parallelism when doubled, their remarkable tendency to radiate from definite centers, lent strength to the hypothesis of an artificial origin. Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries Her slender girlish figure, clad in corduroy skirt and blue jersey, was poised with lance-like straightness, and a grace as free as a boy's. The Lighted Match In the 'Grammaire des Arts du Dessin,' M. Charles Blanc lays down as an axiom, that "sublimity in architecture belongs to three essential conditions—simplicity of surface, straightness, and continuity of line." Normandy Picturesque He gulped and left her, walking forth through the little tables with the uncanny straightness of the man "in liquor." The Second Class Passenger Fifteen Stories Possibly, probably, if he had married a wife too inflexibly refined, he would have deviated somewhat from that perfect straightness. The Helpmate His eyes were large and black, were set in his head with an almost singular straightness, and were surmounted by brows which, depressed towards the nose, sloped upwards towards the temples. Bella Donna A Novel Later he split long splinters of wood from pieces selected for their straightness of grain. Artificial Light Its Influence upon Civilization Maria was, in fact, carrying herself with an extreme straightness both of body and soul. By the Light of the Soul A Novel Their hope lay in the straightness of the road, and their chief fear was that by some greater roughness of the way the chaise, which was now swaying fearfully, might be overturned. The Mormon Prophet What I take for granted is a natural tendency to straightness, when it gets its way. The Helpmate Hour after hour he would sit as an honoured spectator watching them play a hard-fought game of lacrosse that required fleetness of foot and straightness of limb. The War Chief of the Six Nations A Chronicle of Joseph Brant Nan dived through them with the arrowy straightness of a fish or a submarine, came up behind them, and struck out to sea. Dangerous Ages You will meet people—men—who will tell you no man can keep altogether a rigid straightness in matters that, as you know, I hold important. Secret Bread Partly because of her vivid colouring and because she was abrim with life; partly because in her straightness of limb and the clear treble of her voice, she was boyish. The Summons Almost immediately, the road changed from a fair country cart-road to a road remarkable at once for its straightness, breadth and levelness. In Indian Mexico (1908) Her surprise at her own mistake showed how genuine her intention of straightness really was. The Vehement Flame Riley's anxiety to get his son down-stairs and into his own domain blinded him to the straightness of Jimmie's back and the severe lines in his face. The Lever A Novel Her low brow—truly Greek in its straightness and the crisp ripple of her hair around it—was not in favour at that time. Secret Bread He was becoming conscious of the narrowness and straightness of his black world, and red anger flashed in him ever and again as he felt his bonds. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel He described Norfolk Island as one entire wood, or rather as a garden overrun with the noblest pines, in straightness, size, and magnitude, far superior to any he had ever seen. The Voyage of Governor Phillip to Botany Bay With an Account of the Establishment of the Colonies of Port Jackson and Norfolk Island (1789) He was a tall boy of fifteen years, with long limbs that were saved from any unlovely slimness by their full-fleshed curves and perfect straightness. Tell England A Study in a Generation Violet sprang from the bed, and stood tense, quivering, with an arrow-like straightness that made her superb. The Keeper of the Door I have never quite lost the sense of excitement in crossing a canal in the train and getting a momentary glimpse of its receding straightness, perhaps broken by a brown sail. A Wanderer in Holland But it was only the result of the military straightness of his body. The Man in the Twilight The three distinguishing features of a good glider are stability, straightness of flight, and a small gliding angle. Things To Make So I lay in the bows and wondered at the straightness of his back, and Doe nestled in the stern and admired the width of his chest. Tell England A Study in a Generation These threads are colorless, are perfect in their qualities of straightness, strength, and levelness. Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold Thus it appeared that the attributes of straightness and crookedness were not inherent in the shadow, but corresponded to certain positions in the body . The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 Looking back when they nooned, Harding noticed the straightness of their course. The Intriguers The merits of a glider depend on length, and on straightness of flight; so in competition the launching height should be limited by a string stretched across the room, say 6 feet above the floor. Things To Make To try my hand and the straightness of my throw," said Cuchulainn; "and it is the custom with you Ulstermen, that you do not travel beyond your peril. The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (Tain Bo Cualnge) : An Old Irish Prose-Epic Even a badly cut muslin dress could not fully conceal the fine breadth of Little Marion's shoulders nor the splendid length and straightness of her legs. Judith of the Godless Valley His best work is full of squarer drawing and planes. 163Always be on the look out for straightnesses in curved forms and for planes in your modelling. The Practice and Science of Drawing It curled as fancy dictated, wandered along the foot or the scarp of a range of hills, followed the ridge of winding downs, and only by chance stumbled briefly into straightness. Ancient Town-Planning I asked her if running away behind Jimmy's back was her idea of straightness? The Belfry He had, moreover, a reputation for straightness so unimpeachable that it had become almost a proverb up and down the country. Charles Rex The Admiral looked up the hill and saw that they were so wonderfully large, that he could not exaggerate their height and straightness, like stout yet fine spindles. The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and Modern Times And then he has made a determined stand against the flow of lines carrying you out of the picture on the right, by putting straight, upright trees and insisting upon their straightness. The Practice and Science of Drawing Ferrier, he supposed, suspected him of a lack of "straightness"; and did not care to maintain an intimate relation, which had been already, and might be again, used against him. The Testing of Diana Mallory Where another man would catch merely a general effect, his more practised eye would estimate heights, diameters, the growth of the limbs, the probable straightness of the grain. The Rules of the Game Employment is the half, and the primal half, of education—it is the warp of it; and the fineness or the endurance of all subsequently woven pattern depends wholly on its straightness and strength. The Queen of the Air Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm In the work of laying-out, great care ought to be taken with regard to straightness and distances, and particularly as to the squareness of every part. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 It was a fine modern profile, the straightness of it broken by the silken point of his well-kept moustache, by the perfect curve of his shoulder, and by the butterfly's wing of his white necktie. The Inferno As to her infantine bones, they were such as needed not to fail of straightness in the limbs, compactness in the body, smallness in hands and feet, and exceeding symmetry and comeliness throughout. The Grandissimes I weeded them, and though freedom from foreign growth discovered an intention, of straightness, the most casual observer could not but see that skewiness had usurped its place. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 The straightness of the lines of verdure which, in a few weeks, mark the tracks of the seed-tubes, is surprising. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Isn't the straightness of the knife a mere poverty of human imagination? Four-Dimensional Vistas By nothing he says or means, of course, but merely by his old unconscious purity and simplicity—that slender straightness which makes him remind you of the spire of an English abbey. Stories by American Authors, Volume 5 In addition to a narrowing from side to side there will be noticed an abnormal straightness of the quarters, with a turning in, more or less sudden, of the heels. Diseases of the Horse's Foot Their first talk left Ralph with a dazzled sense of Moffatt's strength and keenness, but with a vague doubt as to the "straightness" of the proposed transaction. The Custom of the Country But in the new portions there was not this adherence to straightness. Tom Swift and His Big Tunnel, or, the Hidden City of the Andes It was not only the unsparing unapologetic ugliness and the rigid straightness which overwhelmed her. Main Street In a measure, these were the two things that had brought him to the pass in which he now stood, his loyalty to Joe and his resentment of whatever tampered with Claudine's straightness. The Conquest of Canaan Ivy, too, studied the straightness of her lines, her upper lip hidden beneath the lower. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko But at any rate, as it was mainly for Paul that he would henceforth work, it should be on his own terms and according to his inherited notions of "straightness." The Custom of the Country We can be on the side, you see, of his straightness. The Ambassadors The road was narrow, and I was convinced that it was a piece of Roman road from its straightness. A Dream of John Ball; and, a king's lesson The chest was deep, it is true, cavernously deep; but there were no full-swelling muscles, no wide-spreading shoulders, no clean-limbed straightness, no generous symmetry of outline. Before Adam They were marked by precision, mathematical straightness, smoothness, exactitude: there in the old walls were the broken lines of the original idea; jagged curves, disdain of precision, irregularity, disarray. Jude the Obscure Mrs. Levitt wore a coat and skirt, her sister's white serge with a distinction, a greyish stripe or something; clean straightness that stiffened and fined down her exuberance. Mr. Waddington of Wyck You don't know what a wicked shameful thing straightness is if you think these trees are straight. Alarms and Discursions Oh, the relief of the tallness and straightness and whiteness! The Incomplete Amorist Her shoulders were a little rounded; much bending over the cradle, ironing board and kitchen range had robbed her back of its straightness. Married The idea of straightness or evenness is the primary meaning of the word, and is, of course, appropriate to the image of a path. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Remember, it had been your seeming sincerity, your truth, your straightness which had first attracted me. The Vision of Desire All really imaginative literature is only the contrast between the weird curves of Nature and the straightness of the soul. Alarms and Discursions He turned then, and saw her sitting with unwonted straightness at the table. The Nest Builder Its very modernity embodies and imparts the charm, which will grow as the city grows in wideness and straightness. Familiar Spanish Travels Behind it thy seat is woven in wondrous mysteries of curves, casting away all barren lines of straightness. Gitanjali And in the circumstances straightness was to be preferred to distance. The Clicking of Cuthbert When Troy is reached, the river takes upon itself quite another aspect, and runs with singular straightness almost direct to New York harbor. My Native Land The United States: its Wonders, its Beauties, and its People; with Descriptive Notes, Character Sketches, Folk Lore, Traditions, Legends and History, for the Amusement of the Old and the Instruction of the Young The special characteristics of the numerous lines which intersect the whole of the equatorial and temperate regions of Mars are, their straightness combined with their enormous length. Is Mars habitable? A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book "Mars and its canals," with an alternative explanation The extreme straightness of the trunk and limbs is very striking, and may be compared to the crooked limbs of the Horsechestnut, where the branch is continually interrupted by the flower-cluster. Outlines of Lessons in Botany, Part I; from Seed to Leaf By these also he proves his industry, for he hath purchased legs, hair, beauty, and straightness, more than nature left him. Character Writings of the 17th Century That afternoon I marked out my corn-field, driving the mare to my home-made wooden marker, carefully observant of the straightness of the rows; for a crooked corn-row is a sort of immorality. Adventures in Friendship This time, to my very great pleasure and pride, the arrow went with a wonderful straightness towards the ship, and, clearing the superstructure, passed out of our sight as it fell behind it. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" Save for her straightness and that proud characteristic poise of the head, she might have seemed, at that moment of emergency, a veritable Griselda for acquiescence. A Man and His Money Indeed, any man with half an eye could not fail to get the meaning of his fixed glance, his hard set jaw, and the straightness of his mouth. Gunman's Reckoning He took his first inspiration from the Cherokees, for it was the Indian in all the splendour of his strength and straightness that formed West's ideal of beautiful physique. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Above all things he prized and admired and demanded from his friends the quality of straightness. Uneasy Money For though the sides of the great, natural bowl were green up to a certain distance, beyond that, and between the rim and a point half way down, they were almost perpendicular in straightness. The Boy Ranchers on the Trail Graham held her gaze with equal straightness as he answered: "She was a kanaka." The Little Lady of the Big House The idea that the beauty of cities consists largely in the breadth and straightness of their streets had taken a firm hold on the public mind. The Eve of the French Revolution The very fact of its straightness, flanked as it was by the rows of frosted trees, seemed like a call. Over Prairie Trails Think not by the straightness of thine order in outward, and bodily conformity to outward and shadowish circumstances, that thy peace is maintained with God?' Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 They grow with remarkable straightness of stem and of grain, and their timber commands the highest price. The Earth as Modified by Human Action Half an hour after that, Utirupa presented himself at Samson's office in the usual neat Rajput dress that showed off his lithe figure and the straightness of his stature. Guns of the Gods The sole remarkable feature in the figure here given is the straightness of the course pursued. The Power of Movement in Plants I think it is only natural to rejoice in strength and straightness and skill, and to be sensitive if in any way they are taken away from us. Glenloch Girls "Fall in!" commanded Brown, and his straight back took on a curve that meant straightness to the nth power. Told in the East The rest fairly bristled in its stiff straightness, and the whole mop was tied up with a large bow of red ribbon. Marjorie's Vacation The woman was toying with a bunch of grass, winding the slim green blades around her pale fingers, and she looked back with peculiar straightness. The Maid of the Whispering Hills The tracing is remarkable only from its simplicity and the straightness of the lines. The Power of Movement in Plants She came to the conclusion that, despite her slenderness and straightness and the general effect of the long oval of her face under the hat, Sophia looked her age. The Old Wives' Tale Anli was scouring a shield; Ardane was singing the while he polished a spear and held it out against the light to see its straightness and its lustre. The Coming of Cuculain I flatter myself Lady Ailesbury's arm has recovered its straightness and its cunning. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 The real and essential meaning of "virtue" is in that straightness of back. The Ethics of the Dust He wore a grey felt hat, and a light jacket which displayed the straightness of his shoulders. Born in Exile Millner tingled again with this tribute to his physical straightness and bloom. Tales of Men and Ghosts We must do your hair differently,' she continued, trying to smooth Molly's black waves into straightness. Wives and Daughters It was the matron and the vestal who were supposed to be straight, and their straightness was wholly supposititious. Imperial Purple The road, running with the irritating straightness of so many of the roads of France, was visible for a full three miles. Arsene Lupin As before, she was indifferently dressed; a small, close hat came down over her face and hid her forehead; her skirt seemed shrunken, and hung limp about her ankles, accentuating the straightness of her figure. Maurice Guest I like to look at my guardian; the fine old chap, with his height and straightness, his bright blue eyes and proud silver head, is a sight for sore eyes, as they say. The Firefly of France The slight layer of dust—so slight as to be imperceptible to the unassisted eye—which had surrounded the four sides of the box, presented its four delicate edges in perfectly undisturbed straightness of line. Jezebel's Daughter The gypsies honoured and trusted him because, crooked themselves, they appreciated straightness and clean living in another. The Life of George Borrow And now she shamed her slender straightness the nut-brown spear; her radiant face dimmed the brightest beams of full moon and she outdid the bending branches in gentle movement and flexible grace. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 The dust was deep and made heavy walking, and the level straightness of a great part of the road is wearisome. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither The other, who showed no more than the tip of her nose, held her head bravely erect, while, even through her wrappings, the straightness of her back breathed haughtiness. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest Keeper of the paths of men, Hear a prayer for straightness. Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy "I wish it were possible to know with accuracy what his idea of straightness is," said Mr. Crawley to his wife. The Last Chronicle of Barset The quality and capacity of that soil, its ability to "grow" with due freshness and straightness any vision of life, represents, strongly or weakly, the projected morality. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 It loads at the breech, and fires with great force and straightness. Little Men His sarcastic lips were firm and quick, and he looked at people with disconcerting straightness. Fraternity Ericson making no objection, they went on board, and down into the neat little cabin, which was all the roomier for the straightness of the vessel's quarter. Robert Falconer How, since then, it has developed in multitudinous less sane directions, and lost its normal straightness and proportions, I am, singularly enough, not entirely competent to explain with any degree of satisfactory detail. T. Tembarom The featheriness of the maple, and the arrowy straightness and pyramidal form of the cryptomeria, please me better than all else; but why criticise? Unbeaten Tracks in Japan We were discussing the merits of directness in speech and straightness in every way. Phyllis of Philistia Her stillness, the angularity of her lines, and the stick-like straightness of her legs make her look like a halfpenny gingerbread horse. The Schoolmistress, and other stories The shape of his head, the squareness of his jaws, the straightness of his thick lips, all seemed to speak of a hard and inflexible disposition. The Vanished Messenger The face in the looking-glass was serious and intent, apparently occupied with other things besides the straightness of the parting which, however, was being driven as straight as a Roman road through the dark hair. Night and Day The squaw was hurrying on, and but for the straightness of the trail just there, her fat old canvas-wrapped legs would have carried her speedily out of sight. Cabin Fever But consider, a snubness of the nose, how is that more beautiful than straightness? The Symposium The majority were Norwegians, whose courage and straightness of character are matters beyond doubt. Notes on Life and Letters She spoke as with the softness almost of a sick child, yet now at last, at the end of all, with the perfect straightness of a sibyl. The Beast in the Jungle How, with the tintless pallor of her skin and the classic straightness of her lineaments, she managed to look sensual, I don't know. The Professor |
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