He had reached a point where the branches were so small that they bent dangerously when he stepped on them.
） "Keep your knees slightly bent.
But sometimes, when Emily looked at his face, bent over the arithmetic problems of Blair Water School, she felt horribly sorry for him without in the least understanding why.
Robed in white, with ostrich plumes, veil, and court train, she had just bent to kiss the Queen's hand when Aunt Elizabeth's voice shattered her dream as a pebble thrown into a pool scatters the fairy reflection.
Excitement had brought a wildrose hue to her face, the sunlight201 brought out the watered-silk gloss of her black hair; her eyes were softly dark and limpid; but it was at her ears Father Cassidy suddenly bent to look.
He was an odd, ridiculous figure enough, bent and wrinkled and unkempt, gesticulating awkwardly as he recited.
Yet, when Emily went to the playhouse next morning, bent on retrieving her share of broken dishes and boards, there was Ilse, skipping around, hard at work, with all the shelves back in place, the moss garden re-made, and a beautiful parlour laid out and connected with the living-room by a spruce arch.
" he said coldly—and just as coldly he bent forward and kissed her cheek.
They were in animated conversation, and were apparently reading something aloud to each other, for the black head and the curly brown one were both bent over a sheet of letter paper.
"The bitter weather of the world bent its slender stalk, bowed its head, and dragged it to the earth.
Burch bent and kissed her good-night.
Burch bent and kissed her good-night.
No one guessed the quiet pleasure that lay hidden in her heart when she watched the girl's dark head bent over her lessons at night, nor dreamed of her joy in, certain quiet evenings when Miranda went to prayer meeting; evenings when Rebecca would read aloud Hiawatha or Barbara Frietchie, The Bugle Song, or The Brook.
The fact was that the ivory hook of the parasol had caught in the chain gear, and when the first attempt at drawing water was made, the little offering of a contrite heart was jerked up, bent, its strong ribs jammed into the well side, and entangled with a twig root.
" Miss Dearborn stole a look at Rebecca's bent head and was frightened.
Sore is my heart and bent my stubborn pride, With Lijah and with Lisha am I tied, My soul recoyles like Cora Doctor's Wife, Like her I feer I cannot bare this life.
' Grieved and confused, Anna bent down and moved a hassock in order to hide her face.
From the footboard of the carriage Anna bent down to kiss Agnes.
She stitched her best and her hardest, with head bent, and all her wits concentrated on the task.
The revivalist began softly to sing 'Jesu, lover of my soul,' and most of the congregation, standing up, joined him; but the sinners stricken of the Spirit remained abjectly bent, tortured by conscience, pulled this way by Christ and that by Satan.
