Cords
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After all, not just any pair of legs will allow you to play soccer like Lionel Messi, and not just any set of vocal
cords
will allow you to sing like Maria Callas.
Men were constantly moving around the shaft, pulling the signal cords, pressing on the arms of levers, in the midst of this spray in which their garments were soaked.
Others, who were younger with the swollen breasts of amazons, brandished sticks; while frightful old women were yelling so loudly that the
cords
of their fleshless necks seemed to be breaking.
He showed with pride in the sitting room two small pencil sketched by her that he had had framed in very large frames, and hung up against the wallpaper by long green
cords.
Next, Mademoiselle d'Andervilliers collected some pieces of roll in a small basket to take them to the swans on the ornamental waters, and they went to walk in the hot-houses, where strange plants, bristling with hairs, rose in pyramids under hanging vases, whence, as from over-filled nests of serpents, fell long green
cords
interlacing.
Then he hung up his cheminots to the
cords
of the netting, and remained bare-headed in an attitude pensive and Napoleonic.
I always keep a supply of
cords
by me.''And this is a woman in love!' thought Julien, 'she dares to say that she loves!
At last understanding that they would never be able to escape from their clasp, irritated by the
cords
cutting into their flesh, disgusted at their contact, feeling their discomfort increase at every moment, forgetful, and unable to bear their bonds a moment longer, they addressed outrageous reproaches to one another, in the hope of suffering loss, of dressing the wounds they inflicted on themselves, by cursing and deafening each other with their shouts and accusations.
Cunning
cords
the holy Church has,
cords
of softest silk they be; put thy neck beneath the yoke, dear; mine will follow, thou wilt see.
It was barely two hours after night set in when we were all on board the vessel, where the
cords
were removed from the hands of Zoraida's father, and the napkin from his mouth; but the renegade once more told him not to utter a word, or they would take his life.
Don Quixote and Sancho got up rather shaken, and, looking about them, were filled with amazement at finding themselves in the same garden from which they had started, and seeing such a number of people stretched on the ground; and their astonishment was increased when at one side of the garden they perceived a tall lance planted in the ground, and hanging from it by two
cords
of green silk a smooth white parchment on which there was the following inscription in large gold letters:"The illustrious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha has, by merely attempting it, finished and concluded the adventure of the Countess Trifaldi, otherwise called the Distressed Duenna.
The walls and ceiling were alive with reptiles--the vault expanded to an enormous size--frightful figures flitted to and fro--and the faces of men he knew, rendered hideous by gibing and mouthing, peered out from among them; they were searing him with heated irons, and binding his head with
cords
till the blood started; and he struggled madly for life.
The passage was encumbered with rope ladders, knotted cords, torches, flasks, grappling irons, alpenstocks, pickaxes, iron shod sticks, enough to load ten men.
Hans drove before him the load of
cords
and clothes; and, myself walking last, we entered the gallery.
It was ten feet by five; the planks of surturbrand, braced strongly together with cords, presented an even surface, and when launched this improvised vessel floated easily upon the waves of the Liedenbrock Sea.
Perceiving their danger, the passengers cast away the last articles which still weighed down the car, the few provisions they had kept, everything, even to their pocket-knives, and one of them, having hoisted himself on to the circles which united the
cords
of the net, tried to secure more firmly the lower point of the balloon.
In the night, in spite of their guards, they might approach the balloon, slip into the car, and then cut the
cords
which held it.
Independently of the sacks of ballast, to which the
cords
of the net were fastened, the car was held by a strong cable passed through a ring in the pavement.
Using the mechanism which consisted of a frame,
cords
of fiber and counterpoise, he threw into the mass an abundance of air, which by raising the temperature also concurred with the chemical transformation to produce in time pure iron.
The
cords
which shackled the prisoner's feet were cut off, but his arms remained securely fastened.
His hands and feet still bore the bloody marks of the
cords
which bound him day and night.
Vows are the knots which tie us to Heaven--they are the
cords
which bind the sacrifice to the horns of the altar,--and are therefore,--as I said before,--to be unloosened and discharged, unless our holy Mother Church shall pronounce the contrary.
The
cords
of the tents were of the same colour.
They squeezed the heads of some with knotted
cords
till they pierced their brains, while they threw others into dungeons swarming with serpents, snakes, and toads."
He shall burst the bands of this Delilah, as Sampson burst the two new
cords
with which the Philistines had bound him, and shall slaughter the infidels, even heaps upon heaps.
'We'll see when the time comes,' thought Oblonsky, and got up, put on his grey dressing-gown lined with blue silk, tied the
cords
and drawing a full breath of air into his broad chest went with his usual firm tread toward the window, turning out his feet that carried his stout body so lightly, drew up the blind and rang loudly.
'Annetta, Annetta!' he said loudly, and the veins in his white neck protruded like thick
cords.
When they awoke they were surprised to find that they could not move; the reason was that the Oreillons who inhabit that country, and to whom the ladies had given information of these two strangers, had bound them with
cords
made of the bark of trees.
They had blacker faces, which were always uncovered, a miserable frock on their bodies, an old cloth woven of
cords
bound upon their shoulder, and their hair hanging like the tail of a horse.
The victim finally arrived, bound to the tail of a cart, and when he had been hoisted upon the platform, where he could be seen from all points of the Place, bound with
cords
and straps upon the wheel of the pillory, a prodigious hoot, mingled with laughter and acclamations, burst forth upon the Place.
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