Leaning
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This was a man, sitting on the stool, with his head
leaning
on his hand, in such a manner as to conceal his features, and deeply occupied in examining some open papers.
"In our duties there may very possibly be a difference," returned his mistress, approaching, and
leaning
her slender form against the wall; "but not in our feelings, Peyton.
All the old graves were sunken in, there was not a tombstone on the place; round-topped, worm-eaten boards staggered over the graves,
leaning
for support and finding none.
But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found himself
leaning
to the impression that the thing might not have been a dream, after all.
In a few words I told him our trouble, while Jim, with a grey face and his brows drawn down, stood
leaning
against the door-post.
I was glad to see Jim, with his face all blackened with powder, standing on my right rear,
leaning
on his firelock.
I had the thought in my stupid, sleepy brain that the cuirassiers were upon us, and I gripped hold of a halbert that was
leaning
against the wall; but then, as I saw the long lines of sleepers, I remembered where I was.
The Major and I were raising his head in the hope that some flutter of life might remain, when I heard a well-remembered voice at my side, and there was de Lissac
leaning
upon his elbow among a litter of dead guardsmen.
He turned pale, and stood speechless, like one thunderstruck, and, not able to conquer the surprise, said no more but this, 'Let me sit down'; and sitting down by a table, he laid his elbow upon the table, and
leaning
his head on his hand, fixed his eyes on the ground as one stupid.
There he remained half an hour,
leaning
over the rails at the top of the pit, observing the animals clumsily swaying to and fro.
Then, rapidly entering the passage, he ascended the narrow, dark staircase,
leaning
against the walls which were clammy with damp.
She rapidly ascended the staircase of the hotel, and on reaching the sixth floor, out of breath, and with wandering eyes, she perceived Laurent, who was
leaning
over the banister awaiting her.
Both
leaning
with their arms on the table, looking slightly pale, and with a vague expression in their eyes, listened.
Therese,
leaning
over the balustrade, observed the quay.
Waiter!" shouted Laurent,
leaning
over the banister, "what about this dinner?"
XXILaurent carefully closed the door behind him, and for a moment or two stood
leaning
against it, gazing round the apartment in anxiety and embarrassment.
He remained glued to the carpet, fainting,
leaning
against a piece of furniture for support.
When Therese had finished her absinthe, she rose, and
leaning
on the arm of the fair young man, went down the Rue de la Harpe.
Full of wonder at so strange a form of madness, they flocked to see it from a distance, and observed with what composure he sometimes paced up and down, or sometimes,
leaning
on his lance, gazed on his armour without taking his eyes off it for ever so long; and as the night closed in with a light from the moon so brilliant that it might vie with his that lent it, everything the novice knight did was plainly seen by all.
Seeing what was going on, Don Quixote said in an angry voice,"Discourteous knight, it ill becomes you to assail one who cannot defend himself; mount your steed and take your lance" (for there was a lance
leaning
against the oak to which the mare was tied), "and I will make you know that you are behaving as a coward."
Don Quixote now rose, and putting his left hand to his mouth to keep his teeth from falling out altogether, with the other he laid hold of the bridle of Rocinante, who had never stirred from his master's side—so loyal and well-behaved was he—and betook himself to where the squire stood
leaning
over his ass with his hand to his cheek, like one in deep dejection.
As soon as he had read it he seated himself in a chair,
leaning
his cheek on his hand in the attitude of one deep in thought, without taking any part in the efforts that were being made to recover his bride from her fainting fit.
All this was heard distinctly by the curate and those with him, and as it seemed to them to be uttered close by, as indeed it was, they got up to look for the speaker, and before they had gone twenty paces they discovered behind a rock, seated at the foot of an ash tree, a youth in the dress of a peasant, whose face they were unable at the moment to see as he was
leaning
forward, bathing his feet in the brook that flowed past.
"At this moment Don Quixote came out in full panoply, with Mambrino's helmet, all dinted as it was, on his head, his buckler on his arm, and
leaning
on his staff or pike.
At this hole the two demi-damsels posted themselves, and observed Don Quixote on his horse,
leaning
on his pike and from time to time sending forth such deep and doleful sighs, that he seemed to pluck up his soul by the roots with each of them; and they could hear him, too, saying in a soft, tender, loving tone,"Oh my lady Dulcinea del Toboso, perfection of all beauty, summit and crown of discretion, treasure house of grace, depositary of virtue, and finally, ideal of all that is good, honourable, and delectable in this world!
Don Quixote was seated in the cage, with his hands tied and his feet stretched out,
leaning
against the bars as silent and as patient as if he were a stone statue and not a man of flesh.
With the knights of these days, for the most part, it is the damask, brocade, and rich stuffs they wear, that rustle as they go, not the chain mail of their armour; no knight now-a-days sleeps in the open field exposed to the inclemency of heaven, and in full panoply from head to foot; no one now takes a nap, as they call it, without drawing his feet out of the stirrups, and
leaning
upon his lance, as the knights-errant used to do; no one now, issuing from the wood, penetrates yonder mountains, and then treads the barren, lonely shore of the sea—mostly a tempestuous and stormy one—and finding on the beach a little bark without oars, sail, mast, or tackling of any kind, in the intrepidity of his heart flings himself into it and commits himself to the wrathful billows of the deep sea, that one moment lift him up to heaven and the next plunge him into the depths; and opposing his breast to the irresistible gale, finds himself, when he least expects it, three thousand leagues and more away from the place where he embarked; and leaping ashore in a remote and unknown land has adventures that deserve to be written, not on parchment, but on brass.
"I could manage the gram well enough," said Sancho; "but for the mar I have neither
leaning
nor liking, for I don't know what it is; but leaving this matter of the government in God's hands, to send me wherever it may be most to his service, I may tell you, senor bachelor Samson Carrasco, it has pleased me beyond measure that the author of this history should have spoken of me in such a way that what is said of me gives no offence; for, on the faith of a true squire, if he had said anything about me that was at all unbecoming an old Christian, such as I am, the deaf would have heard of it."
CHAPTER IVIN WHICH SANCHO PANZA GIVES A SATISFACTORY REPLY TO THE DOUBTS AND QUESTIONS OF THE BACHELOR SAMSON CARRASCO, TOGETHER WITH OTHER MATTERS WORTH KNOWING AND TELLINGSancho came back to Don Quixote's house, and returning to the late subject of conversation, he said, "As to what Senor Samson said, that he would like to know by whom, or how, or when my ass was stolen, I say in reply that the same night we went into the Sierra Morena, flying from the Holy Brotherhood after that unlucky adventure of the galley slaves, and the other of the corpse that was going to Segovia, my master and I ensconced ourselves in a thicket, and there, my master
leaning
on his lance, and I seated on my Dapple, battered and weary with the late frays we fell asleep as if it had been on four feather mattresses; and I in particular slept so sound, that, whoever he was, he was able to come and prop me up on four stakes, which he put under the four corners of the pack-saddle in such a way that he left me mounted on it, and took away Dapple from under me without my feeling it."
With this, Sancho wheeled about and gave Dapple the stick, and Don Quixote remained behind, seated on his horse, resting in his stirrups and
leaning
on the end of his lance, filled with sad and troubled forebodings; and there we will leave him, and accompany Sancho, who went off no less serious and troubled than he left his master; so much so, that as soon as he had got out of the thicket, and looking round saw that Don Quixote was not within sight, he dismounted from his ass, and seating himself at the foot of a tree began to commune with himself, saying, "Now, brother Sancho, let us know where your worship is going.
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